Lion turns to Foodmach for an agile, flexible packaging line and Industry 4.0 integration.

Lion Dairy and Drinks, owner of Australia’s iconic juice brands including Berri, Daily Juice and Just Juice, processes hundreds of thousands of bottles a day at its Smithfield plant in Sydney, ranging from 250ml to 3L.

They needed highly agile packaging lines, allowing quick changeovers with minimum downtime while maximising production efficiency.

Lion was looking to downsize four beverage production lines to two, and repurpose some existing equipment along the way, while also integrating a high level of connectivity between all the equipment to bring the factory closer to Industry 4.0 standards.

Foodmach was chosen to execute the project on the basis of our integration, automation and end-of-line solution specialisation.

The project scope included:

• design of two complete filling lines
• empty and full bottle conveying system
• end of line Robomatrix palletising system for both lines
• a centralised high speed, rotary ring Robopac stretch wrapper

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