SPECIALTY EQUIPMENT

Systems Built for Complex Packaging

Descon’s automated beverage packaging machines and other specialty equipment enhances packaging lines with robotic systems, depalletizers, tray loaders, and automated sortation. Engineered for precision and integration, these solutions boost throughput, reduce labor, and scale with production.

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Servo Laner

Servo Laners are high-speed laning solutions with servo-motor control that accurately and continuously deliver products into multiple lanes without stopping product flow.

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Variety Pack Solutions

Variety Pack Solutions are designed to manage mixed products efficiently, ensuring smooth flow, accurate grouping, and reliable handling for variety pack operations in high‑speed beverage environments.

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Lay-Down Head Space Sterilizer

Our Lay-Down Head Space Sterilizer gently reorients hot‑filled containers to allow product to fill the headspace until sterilization is achieved. The standard unit handles PET, HDPE, and glass containers with minimal changeover and automatic line‑speed adjustment.

Descon Offers a Complete Range of Specialty Equipment

Descon's specialty equipment solutions precisely control flow, automate handling, and add flexible, high‑speed efficiency across food and beverage packaging lines.

Servo Laner

Servo Laners are high-speed laning solutions with servo-motor control that accurately and continuously deliver products into multiple lanes without stopping product flow.

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Reciprocating Conveyor Solutions

Descon reciprocating conveyors use a controlled back‑and‑forth motion. A shuttle advances to position the product, then retracts to repeat the cycle with precise, repeatable movement.

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Tray & Crate Stacking & Destacking

This equipment is designed to accept full trays, stack them, and deposit them directly onto the floor outside of the frame of the machine for operator removal.

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Pick & Place

Descon’s Pick & Place equipment utilizes servo controls to quickly, accurately, and continuously pack loose bottles into formed corrugated boxes.

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High‑Speed Precision with Gentle Product Handling

Deliver precise positioning, controlled motion, and gentle handling at high speeds. Doing so protects containers, trays, and crates while ensuring consistent, repeatable movement.

Flexibility for Multiple Formats and Applications

These systems support many product types and formats. They use programmable motion, adaptable tooling, and modular designs to enable fast changeovers and easy integration into evolving production lines.

Improved Line Efficiency and Automation

By automating laning, transfers, stacking, destacking, and placement, Descon equipment reduces manual work and downtime, improves line flow, and integrates with upstream and downstream systems.

Variety Pack Solutions

These solutions are designed to manage mixed products efficiently. Doing so ensures smooth flow, accurate grouping, and reliable handling for variety pack operations in high‑speed beverage environments.

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Variety Pack Sortation

Designed for flexibility and accuracy, Descon’s Variety Pack Sortation System utilizes servo motor control to accurately and continuously reorient containers to build rainbow packs.

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Variety Pack Uncasing

Descon’s Robotic Variety Pack Uncasing System utilizes Axis Robots to accurately and continuously create a multiple-flavored pack of beverages.

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High‑Speed, Accurate Product Sorting and Handling

These systems are designed to precisely identify, separate, and position multiple product types at high speeds. This ensures accurate collation and consistent pack builds while maintaining product stability throughout the process.

Flexibility for Multiple SKUs and Pack Configurations

Descon’s variety pack equipment supports frequent SKU changes and mixed‑product formats through adaptable designs, programmable controls, and modular tooling. This enables quick transitions, without sacrificing performance.

Improved Line Efficiency Through Automation

By automating uncasing, sorting, and variety pack formation, these solutions reduce manual labor, minimize downtime, and integrate seamlessly with upstream and downstream equipment to maximize throughput and operational reliability.

Container Treatment & Cleaning

Ensure containers are rinsed, sanitized, and dried before filling, removing contaminants while supporting high‑speed operation and consistent hygiene standards for beverage manufacturers.

Container Warming Tunnel

This system is designed to eliminate condensation of cold-filled products by safely warming to an ambient temperature at a dew point. Our thermal process provides gentle warming to ensure the product's taste and color are not compromised.

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Container Cooling Tunnel

Using the latest thermodynamic technology to reduce the core temperature of hot-filled products, we have developed a thermal process that gently cools without affecting product taste or color.

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Ionized Air Container Rinser

Provide an effective means for removing particulate materials from empty containers before filling. It's simple to operate and easily configured to handle a variety of bottles.

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Lay-Down Head Space Sterilizer

Gently reorient hot‑filled containers so product fills headspace for sterilization. The standard unit runs PET, HDPE, and glass with minimal changeover and automatic line‑speed adjustment.

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Container Drying Tunnel

Descon’s Container Drying Tunnel features a quick-change format changeover, including single or dual-lane, single or multiple-stage drying, and single or multiple-format drying.

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Shell & Crate Washing

Combine vertical and horizontal dry‑trash removal with an efficient shell washer and a hot‑air recirculating drying system for clean, ready‑to‑run shells.

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Consistent Hygiene and Process Control

These systems are designed to clean, sanitize, sterilize, dry, warm, or cool containers, shells, and crates to meet food and beverage hygiene requirements while ensuring repeatable, controlled treatment throughout the production process.

High‑Capacity Performance with Gentle Handling

Descon’s container treatment and cleaning equipment supports continuous, high‑speed operation while gently managing containers and handling media (air, water, heat) to avoid damage and maintain package and product integrity.

Seamless Line Integration and Operational Efficiency

These solutions are engineered to integrate smoothly with upstream and downstream equipment, improving overall line flow, minimizing downtime, and supporting efficient, automated container handling across multiple formats.

OUR PROCESS

Built Around Your Operation

Our process starts with understanding your challenges and ends with fully integrated solutions. Expect hands-on collaboration, clear communication, and equipment designed to fit your line, not the other way around.

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Higher Throughput

Automation delivers consistent speeds and reliable output that manual labor can’t match. We help manufacturers increase throughput while maintaining safe, controlled operations across high-speed packaging lines.

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Safer Packaging Environments

By reducing human involvement in heavy, repetitive, or high-speed tasks, our automation improves ergonomics and supports compliance with evolving workplace safety standards.

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Efficiency and Cost Control

Our automated solutions minimize downtime, optimize line performance, and reduce labor dependency. This helps manufacturers control costs, protect margins, and achieve long-term return on investment.

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Labor Shortages Solved

As labor pools shrink and shift, automation fills critical gaps. Our systems stabilize production, reduce reliance on manual roles, and ensure consistent output despite workforce challenges.

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Flexible for New SKUs

Our equipment is designed for adaptability, supporting fast changeovers and evolving packaging formats so manufacturers can respond quickly to new products and changing consumer demand.

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Modernization Without Disruption

We help manufacturers stay competitive by integrating advanced automation, robotics, and intelligent systems. In doing so, we modernize legacy packaging operations while aligning with existing infrastructure.

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Critical End-of-Line Support

From new facilities to line upgrades, we deliver end-of-line automation that supports increased production demands with reliable palletizing, stretch wrapping, and downstream efficiency.

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