With lightweight, empty PET containers, bottlers have always had to live with a Faustian trade-off in performance in exchange for ever-higher speeds: the line may move fast, but downtime may be significant due to fallen containers. This was the problem faced by a Toronto-based bevage bottler. Its 2-1/ 4-L bottling line, pushed to run 320 bottles/ min, was laboring under a maxed-out semi-automatic depalletizer and inefficient combiner. If a bott

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