Columbia/Okura announces strategic alliance with Fischbein

Columbia/Okura announced the formation of a strategic alliance with Fischbein Americas. This alliance was initiated by each company’s shared commitment to providing single source, end-to-end, fully automated bag packaging solutions.

This strategic alliance combines Columbia/Okura’s robotic bag palletizing expertise with Fischbein’s 100 years of experience designing and manufacturing bag weighing, handling and closing equipment to provide completely integrated line solutions.

“Columbia/Okura and Fischbein have worked together for well over a decade.  The formalization of our strong working relationship into a strategic alliance was the next logical step in our evolution” said Brian Hutton, president of Columbia/Okura.  “This strategic collaboration allows both companies to provide our mutual customers with premium quality, best of breed equipment, providing truly optimized, integrated line performance with Intelligent Self-Pacing software communications.”

The Intelligent Self-Pacing software solution is a synchronized system that automatically paces the speed of the bagger based on the status of the palletizer, according to a release from the company.y  This proprietary software and communication system optimizes the throughput of the complete bagging system and is programmed to communicate exclusively between Columbia/Okura and Fischbein equipment.

For more information, visit Columbia/Okura’s website.