Pick & Place solution for advanced packaging tasks

Efficient and precise handling of complex products with high operational reliability

Answers to your questions about Pick and Place

What is the solution?

VARO’s pick-and-place packaging system is a fully automated packaging solution developed with a particular focus on the needs of the food industry. The system performs complex sorting and packing tasks and uses a high-speed scanning system to identify, mix, and pack multiple product types from the same production line. It handles both trays and cartons, including glue-free and tape-free packaging.

What tasks can it handle?

The solution is ideal for production environments where mixed products or retail-ready cases need to be packed and where requirements for hygiene, traceability, and safe handling are high. The system can sort and pack up to 400 units per minute, depending on the product and packing pattern. It supports a wide range of packaging configurations and can switch quickly between them.

What are the benefits?

The customer benefits from an efficient and reliable production setup with high capacity and strong hygiene standards, while significantly reducing manual handling. The solution eliminates repetitive and physically demanding tasks, and its flexible design makes it easy to scale or adapt the line as new products or packaging formats are introduced.

How is the system designed?

The system is modular in design, allowing the number of pick-and-place robots, conveyors, and lanes to be configured according to your requirements. The solution can be expanded with labeling, metal detection, vision systems for quality control, and palletizing. VARO delivers the entire packaging line as a turnkey solution—from case erecting and filling to closing, labeling, and palletizing. This gives the customer one integrated solution without the need to coordinate multiple suppliers.

Sæby Fiske-Industri

Sæby Fiskeindustri in Northern Denmark operates two VARO pick-and-place packaging systems that pack more than 350,000 cans of mackerel every day.

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Benefits:

Here are some of the benefits you can expect from a VARO pick-and-place solution, designed to deliver a high degree of flexibility and efficiency.

  • High capacity – packs up to 400 units per minute
  • Product flexibility – selects, combines, and packs multiple different products (typically 2–5) in the same operation
  • Modular system design – tailored to your production requirements
  • Fast changeovers – handles quick transitions between packaging formats and packing patterns
  • Supports glue-free and tape-free packaging solutions

Technical specifications:

Here you can find an overview of the technical specifications available for a pick-and-place solution.

  • Materials: Stainless steel and bead-blasted surfaces
  • Components: Standard ABB robots, conveyors, and transport lanes
  • Product detection: Selected and configured for each individual project
  • Product combinations: Typically 2–5 products, with additional combinations available on request
  • Product weight: Up to 8 kg
  • Product size: Depends on the overall system specifications and application requirements

High-speed robot-based pick and place packaging line