9. Palletizers
Palletizing consists in grouping a certain number of overpacks (cardboard boxes, shrink-wrapped bundles, various packages) on a shipping pallet. To make repetitive handling less tedious, and for high production rates, equipment manufacturers have designed semi-automatic or fully-automatic palletizing equipment, depending on production rates.
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Palletizers
Over-wrapping pallets in plastic film
Regulations
12-91 French law n° 911414 defining the Machinery Directive.
07-92 Decrees implementing this law :
92765 Scope of application,
92766 Marketing and control procedures,
92767 Technical rules.
01-95 All new palletizer-depalletizers sold and installed must comply with these decrees.
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Bibliography
In Engineering Techniques
Standardization
French Standards Association (AFNOR)
- Sécurité des machines d'emballage. Partie 4 : palettiseurs et dépalettiseurs. Indice de classement : H 94-001-4. (remplace : NF H 95-402 : 05-1981 et NF H 95-403 : 12-1982). - NF EN 415-4 - 12-97
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Organizations
Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI)
Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais (LNE), Packaging market
Packaging machinery suppliers
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Conveyors, complete lines
NTS (France)
NTS-LEGENDRE (Belgium)
POSIMAT, SA (Spain)
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