Harvest in the Livermore Valley puts as much pressure on the bottling line as it does on the grapes themselves, a challenge every winery here faces every October. Livermore Valley is a historic California wine region whose vineyards range from operations decades old to newer producers filling the same valley floor, and all of them need packaging equipment that can move bottled product into cases fast enough to clear tank space for the next lot. The valley isn't Livermore's only industry: a national laboratory employs about 9,749 people in the city, and a bus manufacturer relocated its factory here in 2017. But the wine side of the local economy is where case-packing and palletizing demand concentrates hardest, especially during the weeks after harvest when every winery is bottling at once.
You know how fast tank space disappears once harvest hits; we know how to keep the bottling line ahead of it. PackMaster cobot palletizers stack finished cases for the truck without adding headcount during the busiest six weeks of the year, and case packers box bottled wine at line speed to help clear that tank space. Mars Series VFFS and pouch equipment cover the packaged side of the valley's food and beverage output too, for any producer bagging rather than bottling. We have no site here. What reaches this valley instead ships in from stock held across California, backed by integration and support that carries past the install.