Conveyors and palletizers: The silent superstars of manufacturing
Conveyors and palletizers don’t complain or get injured. These reliable pieces of equipment help move fresh dairy foods to the warehouse or truck quickly and efficiently.
When a consumer opens up a cup of yogurt, she might not realize how well-traveled that food is. That cup, and thousands like it, has moved quite a bit, not counting the miles between the distribution center and the supermarket.
The trip starts within the dairy processing plant. Most likely, conveyors (not human labor) moved an empty cup from a staging area to the filling line, then to a cooling tunnel and finally out to a palletizing station where it was conveyed to a refrigerated warehouse to await pick-up for the DC.