News and Innovations
02/2024
Our solution for your unpacking problem for bottles with tethered caps
The implementation of EU Regulation 2019/904 presents many bottling companies with new challenges. Empties with tethered caps are difficult to unpack.
01/2024
RICO Long term bottle grippers
With RICO bottle grippers, you are well equipped for heat waves and production peaks. They are available for all bottles and every capacity range and have a service life three times longer than other grippers.
02/2023
Optical inspection + Control modernisation
Who hasn‘t experienced this: despite prior checks, crates with missing or unsealed bottles keep leaving the factory. Subsequent complaints are the result.
01/2023
Palletizing and depalletizing of reusable crates
Reusable systems for wine bottles are on the rise. The system built for a large winery with robot-guided double gripper packs both reusable bottles and 6-unit crates.
03/2022
Automatic loading of your chamber pasteurizer
Our chamber pasteurizers can now also be loaded automatically. Buffer sections allow for smoother workflows and reduced forklift traffic.
As a result, your productivity increases thanks to improved logistics and more efficient personnel deployments.
02/2022
Depalletizing and gripping of sustainable reusable wine bottles
As a competent and reliable partner for the entire process chain, we can offer you a new system for depalletizing and gripping sustainable reusable wine bottles. It not only depalletizes boxes in a longitudinal and transverse format but also removes the bottles from the filled boxes and places them on the bottle table. This means that automation will lead to increases in your productivity.
01/2022
RICO chamber pasteurizers also suitable for barrels and kegs
After two years of restrictions, more major events can now finally take place again, and beer barrels are making a comeback. Our RICO chamber pasteurizers ensure an optimal microbiology for your beverages and increase their shelf life.
03/2021
Swing-stopper opener: robust construction – high opening rate
When dealing with reusable empties, a certain percentage of swing-stopper bottles (typically 20%–30%) have to be opened before the cleaning process and subsequent refilling can begin. At RICO we have of course had the perfect solution for this task for more than 20 years.
02/2021
BVH 7 swing stopper closing machine with integrated height adjustment feature
With the height adjustment feature included as standard you can process different bottle heights. In addition, our new BVH 7 swing stopper closing machine is characterised by optimum performances and is also low wear. Optimum hygiene and maximum availability are guaranteed!
01/2021
Data loggers – future-proof thanks to retrofits!
Companies have to guarantee their food’s traceability at every stage of the production and distribution process. To better monitor your pasteurisation process – and thereby to also prevent complaints – RICO now offers you the option to equip your chamber pasteuriser with our new data logger. In future, you will be able to monitor the logs from the comfort of your desk!
