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In The Winery
End-of-Line Packaging:
Protecting Your Product, Productivity and Profit
By: Cheryl Gray
F or any winery, end-of-line packaging is the the end-of-line packaging company has been an
equipment supplier to some of the wine indus-
protector of hours expended by both man
and machine to get the finished product
safely from vineyard to glass. try’s biggest names, providing a complete line of
machinery for winery packaging focused on the
dry end of the packing line. Brian Sinicrope is Vice
Such a huge responsibility is shouldered by com- President of Sales and Marketing.
panies whose integrity is measured solely by how
carefully they help winery clients select the right “The dry end of the packaging line starts with the
end-of-line packaging to accommodate their needs. bottles being delivered to the winery. These are
either delivered in reshipper cases or bulk pallet
A-B-C Packaging Machine Corporation loads. If reshippers, the bottles must be unloaded
from the cases to feed the line, using a decaser.
A-B-C Packaging Machine Corporation, a private- Then, the cases are transported to the packer for
ly held, family-owned business founded in 1940, repacking. When receiving bottles in bulk, the win-
counts itself in that number, selling packaging ery will use a depalletizer to unload and single file
machinery to a wide range of companies manufac- the containers from the bulk pallets to feed the
turing consumer packages goods. Since the 1960s, line. At the other end of the line, filled and finished
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