Multifunctional unfolding machine

📍 Maasdijk, South Holland | 🕒 02-2023 to 07-2023

Project Growers United:

We have created an in-line unfolding solution for Growers United. Growers United's ultra-modern packing station has several supply lanes for crates and/or boxes, meaning space is limited. We have modified our current Euro depalletizer so that it is possible to feed it from the rear with pallets and folded crates. This modification allowed us to keep the width of the system within 2 m.

With this unfolder, Growers United can unfold all their crates, from 600x400 to 400x300 crates, from IFCO to EPS. Everything in one machine and switching at the touch of a button!

Using the integrated control system, a smart try-again is carried out where necessary. If the crate is still not unfolded properly or has a defect, it is thrown out to prevent it from ending up in the further Growers United process.

Highlights machines:

Euro depalletizer with pallet lift. With this module, the stacks of folded crates can easily be placed in the system with a pallet truck. A crate destacker and unfolder with an automatic ejection module. With the crate unstacker, various types of folding crates can be unstacked fully automatically and unfolded fully automatically with the crate unfolder. Ejection module, to prevent defective or not fully expanded crates from ending up in the production process, they are ejected here.Crate stacker. With this module the customer can create stacks of crates and then manually place them on a pallet for use in other processing processes.

Over Growers United:

Growers United is a professional cooperative of and for fruit vegetable growers. With 5 brands, more than 40 family businesses, approximately 600 hectares of glass and more than 480 million euros in turnover, Growers United is one of the larger players in the cultivation, packaging and sale of greenhouse vegetables in Europe.

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