Europe Palletizer Market - Growth, Trends, COVID -19 Impact, Forecasts (2021 - 2026)

Palletizer is one of the significant equipment among the major advanced automated material handling systems. Organizations are raising their expectations for workforce flexibility and safety, there is a shift happening from manual to automation in the operations. Depending on the need, robotic or conventional palletizers are used to automate the pallet building process in distrubution centres, warehouses, manufacturing facilities. as per the usage various technologies are incorporated that help manufactures make perfect pallets.

Due to the breakout of the pandemic Covid-19, many manufacturing facilities of FMCG sector have underwent increased pressure and they had to speed up their process of production. According to a survey done by the Packaging Europe, 87% of the respondents answered that to maintain the supply chain productibility and social distancing thay had started different shifts and 22% claimed that they had to incorporate automation to maintain the process. This shows that the pandemic helped this market to growing exponentially.

Recently, demand of grocery capacity is seen in all parts of the continent due to lockdown, it is expected to generate a rise for the palletizer market because manufacturing facilities had to speed up the production, increase in the capacity will accelerate the demand of automation and advanced machineries.

According Wunderman Thomson Commerce Report, The share of Amazon in the e-commerce market have raised 35% during the pandemic. It is highlighting how the market is being benefited by Covid-19. It is likely that after the pandemic will be over people will continue shopping online because it is convenient, cheap and less time consuming. so the demand of palletizers will continue to remain high.

The growth of this segment is driven by emerging economics, i.e Gulf Region, here the demand for pharmaceuticals and food is very high, moreover the government regulations, regarding CRP (Child-resistant Packaging) for drugs. i.e. paracetomol, aspirin and contraceptives are boosting the demand for palletizers and packaging machineries in United Kingdom.

Key Market Trends

"Food and Beverage" to occupy Major Share

There is always a huge demand of palletizers from the food and beverage industry, it is the key industry to enhance the market revenue. The retailer competition continues in the market and the government regulation are become more strict with passing time so the need of automation and palletizing robots are also increasing rapidly. More over in current times people are very much concerned about eco-friendly packaging so it is also boosting the opportunity of automatic machineries.

In the food and beverage packaging industry palletizers are most preferred and termed as benefical due to its low cost, high throughput rate and small foot print. the packaging is preffered among the consumers and retailers as it is of less weight and can preserve food for long, the perishable rate is quite low in palletizer packaging. It is vital for every industry as it is useful at the end of the product line.

Industries like phemacueticals, cosmetics, personal care and chemicals also prefer palletizing over other packagings. These type of systems need skilled workforce to operate and maintain. Palletizing are useful in the industries with high SKU volumes, It helps to maintain and handle fast production lines. It is forecasted that the retail value of sales will register premium growth in the region.

The growth in the manufacturing industries are helping the demand of automation to increase, which the resulting the need of flexible machinery to increase. The European beverage and food industry is subjected to various EU and nation regulations concerning food nutrition, health, safety, innovation, import and export. The industry is also facing issues to get high-skilled staffs. These are the factors responsible to adopt automation in the food and beverage industry.

Germany to Hold the Largest Market Share

In the trend of industry 4.0 initiative, Germany is leading the market as they adopted the automation technologies in manufacturing facilities to improve the productivity. This initiative aims to provide funding and resources towards building an advanced and smart factories. A huge proportion of Germany production is sold worldwide to more than 100 countries. The last year's statistics, the export of food packaging and processing was around 8.3 billion. Recently there is an increase of 4% in this year.

The country is much interested in automation, Palletizer offers robot models which are specially designed for high-speed, low-range and heavy payload palletizing. A variety of software options helps the user to quickly generate pallet patterns and check the status of the palletizing systems. It is a demanding application for stscking cases, cartoons, bags, bottles and boxes into pallets.

In the final step the pallets are put in organized manner and loading into a shipping track. The major challenges that occur during the process are pallet pattern flexibility, tooling flexibility, cycle time. As a solution to this, Kawasaki palletizing systems are used. Strong economy and notable port traffic, key manufacturing indices and increased e-commerce activity is attaining the significant growth of the market.

Sectors like automotive, retail, pharmaceutical, food and beverage are the largest source of demand of the palletizing solutions across the country. After the pandemic covid-19 will be over, the number of usage of palletizing solution is expected to be higher as consumers are now more concerned about safer and healthy packaging.

Competitive Landscape

The Europe palletizer market is competitive because of the presence of many players running their business in national and international boundaries. The market is mildly concentrated with the presence of major players like Abb Ltd, Beumer Group GmbH & Co. KG, Honeywell International Inc., KION Group AG, Krones AG, Sidel, Yaskawa Electric Corp., Barry-wehmiller Companies Inc., among others.

June 2019- Beumer group partnered with Davert GmbH to sign up BEUMER's Stretch Hood A. it will be used for packaging its palletized organic products. Davert GmbH have a speciality in organic food processing. So they can confirm continuous development in processing methods and moniter the products carefully.

October 2019- Nestle's swiss faculty go ahead with the use of robotic palletizers instead of the previous conventional ones to speed up the production of their special T.tea capsules. Sidel provided the automated solutions since they were already working on development of the new robotic.palletizer.

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