The main issue when palletizing hard to handle products is developing a gripper that can pick up and palletize the products.

Hard to handle products are defined as products that can not be picked up from the top with only vacuum and irregularly shaped products.

Special grippers have been designed to pick up many hard to handle products.

Gripper styles:

• Mechanical clamping gripper with vacuum assist for picking open top cases.

• Mechanical clamshell style gripper for picking bags.

• Mechanical bottom support gripper with stripper plate for open top cases or bundled product.

• Unigripper design allows the use of vacuum to picking irregularly shaped products.