High-tech bottle palletizing: bulk palletizing system for glass bottles runs seven days a week, 24 hours a day, at E&J Gallo Winery's glass bottle manufacturing plant.

Packaging Digest, October, 2002 by Mans, Jack

Founded in 1933, E&J Gallo Winery is the largest producer of wine in the world, with annual sales exceeding $1.4 billion. Its Livingston, Fresno, and Modesto, CA, plants are among the largest wineries in the world. With this scale of operations, the company has committed to beginning-to-end integration, starting with bottle making at the front end, and ending with its own trucking and distribution operations.

Exemplifying this commitment, Gallo Glass Company's Modesto plant has four glass-making furnaces feeding 14 bottle manufacturing lines that make more than 60 different bottles. The bottles had traditionally been packed in cases for delivery to the packaging line, but in '98, the plant implemented an ambitious project with Emmeti USA to convert to bulk...

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