UK-based Linkx Systems has developed compact robotic palletiser system to reduce costs at the Unilever Bestfoods plant in Norwich.

Unilever Bestfoods approached Linkx to provide automatic palletizing for random packs of cook-in sauces from three adjacent product lines, according to source.theengineer.co.uk.

For the random packs application, Linkx reused an existing robot that Unilever no longer uses to devise a compact system to do the work of three conventional palletizers.

Linkx implemented the palletizing system in partnership with Alpha Chase Engineering, a specialist supplier of conveying systems.