Cold-chain exposure
Every manual touch in a freezer adds risk to product quality and worker safety.
Safe & Efficient
Food & Beverage Automation
Hygienic, temperature-controlled automation for processing, cold storage and distribution.
Overview
Automation for Food & Beverage
Metallum’s food and beverage automation solutions deliver hygienic, temperature-controlled material handling engineered for cold storage, washdown environments, and rapid lot-traceability. Utilizing stainless steel conveyor lines, automated deep-freeze AS/RS racking, and precision robotic palletizing cells, we maintain strict FIFO rotation, eliminate cold-chain exposure, and preserve product integrity from processing to outbound distribution.
Challenges
Common Challenges
FIFO & lot traceability
Expiry-driven rotation and recall readiness demand accurate tracking.
Hygiene & washdown
Equipment must withstand cleaning regimes without extended downtime.
High-speed packaging lines
Bottling and canning lines outpace manual palletizing.
Solutions
Suitable Automation Solutions
Deep-freeze AS/RS
Automated storage engineered for -20°F to -40°F environments.
FIFO pallet shuttle storage
Deep-lane storage with software-enforced FIFO rotation.
Robotic palletizing
Food-grade handling of cartons, crates, bundles and cans at line speed.
Stainless conveyor lines
Sanitary transport from processing to outbound distribution.
Products
Related Products
Continuous Flow
Conveyor Systems
Powered roller and slider bed belt conveyors with zero-pressure accumulation, line speeds up to 295 FPM and seamless integration with AS/RS, sortation and AGVs.
High-Density Storage
Automated Storage & Retrieval Systems (AS/RS)
Unit-load and mini-load AS/RS with stacker cranes and robotic shuttles for high-density, Goods-to-Person storage with near-100% inventory accuracy.
Precision Robotics
Industrial Robotics
Robotic palletizing and depalletizing cells with 3D vision and AI mixed-SKU stacking for fast, stable, 24/7 end-of-line automation.
Scalable Fulfillment
Shuttle Systems
2-way and 4-way robotic pallet shuttles that maximize storage density — up to 80% floor plan utilization with strict FIFO/LIFO control.
Food & Beverage
