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The new plant increases the company’s floorspace by 25%, with room for adjacent buildouts to accommodate growth in medical devices and other niches.

With digitalization disrupting traditional industries, its impact on food packaging is both profound and inevitable.

Niagara Bottling’s new 600,000-sq.-ft. production and distribution facility in Rialto, Calif., manufactures and distributes 120,000 bottles of water per hour. Supporting this throughput are 56 laser-guided vehicles, integrated with a 33,000-position robotic pallet shuttle storage system. Designed and built by E80 Group, the distribution automation operates 24/7/365.

Hawk case packers offer a robotic top-load solution for the food and beverage industries at speeds up to 60 cases or 120 cartons per minute.

The new robot-picking solution, developed at Mecalux’s technology center in Barcelona, Spain, will enhance order fulfillment in warehouses and logistics centers.

The company’s new Mobile ASRS systems is designed for taller warehouses with flexible planning and hybrid optimization options.

The company has released a list and descriptions of its new offerings that will be showcased at Automation Fair 2023.

A recent webinar produced by CESMII, a smart manufacturing organization, offers insights into how continuous improvement projects and data-driven upgrades can coexist in food plants.

The increased automation and advanced technology helps food robotics market reach a valuation by $7.8 billion by 2033.

With climbing utility prices, even a little energy savings improves the bottom line.