Case Packing for Vegetable Trays

Company

JYGA designed a case-packing cell for a French multinational specialising in the industrial processing of vegetables, including canned, frozen and fresh ready-to-use products.
The company contacted JYGA as part of an increase in volumes for its vegetable-tray packaging operations. The objective was to equip a new production line with an automatic case-packing solution for sealed trays, with or without lids. JYGA was already known to this customer, having delivered a similar project on another line in 2016. The customer therefore once again entrusted the project to JYGA.

Project & solution

To meet this requirement, JYGA recommended installing an automatic case-packing cell. The new system uses functions similar to those of the case packer already installed at the same plant, while incorporating several improvements.

The case packer receives ready-to-use vegetable trays from the lidding-machine outfeed, receives pre-formed cases, loads the trays and then discharges the full cases onto an existing labelling conveyor.

The JYGA case-packing cell is safeguarded so operators can work around it confidently.
A screw system spaces the trays at the required pitch and rotates them by 90°.
The trays are then presented to the manipulator in batches of three. The manipulator loads two cases at a time and, for each case, successively picks two batches of three trays.

Because the cases closely match the product dimensions, a removable support passing through the case accompanies the products as they are lowered into position.
Finally, the cell discharges the filled cases to the existing labelling system.