Intralox Case Study: Canélia | Intralox Canélia is a milk producer based in Petit-Fayt, France, and a member of the worldwide leader in dairy: Lactalis Group. At the Canélia bottling site, 1-L polyethylene bottles of milk are shrink-wrapped in groups of six, eight, or 10 at a throughput rate of 15,000 bottles per hour. The 8-L and 10-L packs were being fed to the palletizer at the line’s maximum throughput rate. To meet new demands, the dairy needed to create a new pallet format as well as revise the arrangement of the bottles on each pallet layer while maintaining throughput. The dairy was using lateral adjustable guide rail conveyance technology to feed the palletizer via one line. To achieve the new pallet format, however, two lines were required. As guide rail technology required time-

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