Krones Inc.

Whether for glass bottles, PET containers or cans, for filling, labelling or packing, for water, beer or soft drinks, Krones offers a customized system solution for every process step, every container type and every beverage category. The wide portfolio comprises all machines required for beverage production, including fillers suitable for every container type and labelers for all conventional labelling and decoration variants, as well as all dry-end systems.

See the Liquid Fillers page on this company's website.

With combined experience spanning over 165 years, Krones Process Group North America comprises North American subsidiaries Javlyn Process Systems, W.M. Sprinkman Corp, and Trans-Market to leverage combined resources and knowledge to better support customers. Liquid processing equipment includes a wide range of offerings such as CombiCube F compact filtration system, Steinecker fermentation tanks, VarioStore tank system for aseptic systems, heat exchanger systems and more.

See the Food & Beverage Processing Equipment page on this company's website.

The Krones modular labelers handle cold-glue, hotmelt and self-adhesive labels for round containers or specially-shaped bottles of glass or PET. Their modular design enables a combination of different labelling techniques for only one container.

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Krones' product line of packaging inspection equipment includes vision inspection systems, fill level inspection equipment for canning and bottling lines. Krones' Checkmat inspection systems verifies if the right bottles are in the pack and there are no foreign objects in the package, among other tasks; Checkmat label inspectors also available. The Linatronic AI offers empty-container inspection technology for glass and PET containers with deep learning capabilities. ModulCheck is designed for operations with limited space or when only a single inspection is required.

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The fully-automatic Variopac Pro packer is designed to easily adapt to packaging trends. Packaging with pads, in trays, or wrap-around cartons, if with, without or exclusively in a shrink-wrapped film, the different models of the Variopac Pro cover a wide range of packaging variations. The modular machine design offers flexibility for producing many packaging variants.

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The modular Pressant series is designed for grouping of layers and palletizing of full crates reliably at a high speed.

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System Logistics Corporation (SLC), a Krones owned company, is a leading global supplier of intralogistics and material handling solutions seeking to optimize the supply chain of warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing operations worldwide. With a special focus on the food, beverage and grocery industry, SLC develops tailor-made solutions for automated storage and retrieval systems, including stacker cranes and/or fast rotation storage (FRS), material handling systems, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), and related software and services designed to optimize logistics.

See the Material Handling page on this company's website.

In 1.6 seconds, Krones' stretch blow molders from the Contiform 3 series transmute a preform into a PET bottle. With an output of 2,750 bottles per blow-molding station, they produce PET containers at a speed of 82,500 bottles per hour. Design enhancements at carefully chosen points like the oven, the stretching system and the air recycling unit reduce the machine’s appetite for energy and compressed air.

See the Package Forming Equipment page on this company's website.