The project manager was obviously customer driven. The quality of his work along with his concentration of detail made this line a “showplace” within the Molded Plastics Division. Thank you for the work done here at Sonoco with the completion of the programming and training of our shortening container packaging line.
What’s holding you back from automating your end of line product handling process?
Businesses across the plastics and container industry supply chain can’t keep up without robotic solutions integrated into their product handling processes. With the right integration expertise on your side, seizing the competitive advantage of more accurate processes, higher throughput, and lower labor and compensation costs is more than a pipe dream.
With world-class robots and integration services, MCRI is your trusted partner in plastic and container automation.
Improve Your Picking and Packing Processes for Plastic Containers and Cases of All Types
With flexible, adaptable custom plastic case and container automation solutions, you no longer need to rely on manual labor and risk human error or repetitive motion injuries to keep up with quick changeovers in dynamic processing environments. Our systems handle picking and packing for various sizes of containers to improve your employee satisfaction, competitive posture, and bottom line.
Simplify Process Changeovers
Improve Throughput and Line Speeds
Improve Consistency and Quality
See Automated Plastic Container Handling in Action
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for Plastic Container Automation
Palletizing and Depalletizing
Handle high volumes of bottles, jugs, cases, and other containers of all shapes and sizes to maximize pallet space usage and reduce the time needed for pallet loading and unloading.
Find the right robot to transform your plastic and container handling operations:
Plastic Product Automation Resources
Tech Talk: Flexible Packaging for Blown Plastic Film
Discover how even a small-footprint end-of-line system for plastic film made a big difference in helping a customer solve their labor issues and achieve their efficiency goals.
Tech Talk: Plastic Jug Palletizing in Small Robot Cell
See how our engineering, design, and fabrication team transformed a customer’s plastic container automation and improved their processes with a simple two-robot palletizing cell.
Robotic Picking and Packing Brochure
Dive into the capabilities of our flexible, precise, programmable, and portable picking and packing robots for case erecting, counting, sealing, packing, and more.
MCRI Customers in the Plastics Industry Are Customers for Life
Since 1995, MCRI has been an industry leader in custom robotics solutions—designing, building, and integrating flexible and reliable plastic bottle, film, and container automation solutions for the toughest problems faced by big names in the plastics industry. Once you’ve seen the power of our robotic systems, it’s not hard to see why so many of our customers become repeat customers.
Motion Controls has been a Robotic Integrator of choice for our company for years. In our facility alone, they have perfectly executed 7 automation projects that have helped us become leaner and more efficient. They work very closely with us from the initial concept to the final implementation of the project. When we talk about Robotic automation for new projects we look no further than Motion Controls. I will give them 5 star rating.
Motion Controls has proven themselves to be a highly intelligent and capable robotic integrator. Their team invested the appropriate research and talent to ensure that our needs were met from all aspects of safety, delivery, and performance. I would highly recommend them to anyone needing a robotic solution to their process.
Transform Plastic Automation in 1-2-3
1
Design
From labor issues and ergonomics to efficiency losses, tell us where your processes are falling short. We’ll find the right robots to help improve them.
2
Build
Our engineers, programmers, and fabricators work closely with you to integrate industry-leading robots into custom work cells tailored to solve your challenges.
3
Install and Support
We take care of everything—installation, integration, certification, and operator training—to get your system installed with minimal disruption to your operations.