Low-cost palletizers for small plants
The short answer
Our entry-level palletizer is the gantry: from $99,000, for cases up to 65 lb on low- to medium-speed lines. It's simple to run, nearly maintenance-free and built for businesses starting out with automation — which is what "low cost" should mean after the invoice, not just on it.
- Starting price
- From $99,000
- Payload
- Up to 65 lb (32 kg)
- Maintenance
- Nearly maintenance-free
- Operation
- Minimal training
Single-pallet configuration, standard safety, excluding installation, US customers.
What a low-cost palletizer should actually cost you
On a small team, the machine that's cheap to own beats the machine that was cheap to buy. Five costs decide which one you have.
Purchase price
Our gantry palletizer starts at $99,000 for a single-pallet configuration with standard safety, excluding installation, for customers in the United States.
Installation
Excluded from the starting price and scoped to your site. A simpler machine is simpler to install.
Maintenance
The gantry is published as nearly maintenance-free — on a small team, fewer maintenance hours matter as much as a lower price.
Training
Designed for easy operation and minimal operator training, so the machine doesn't need an automation specialist on every shift.
Downtime
Straightforward troubleshooting keeps a stop short. A cheap machine that stops often is not a cheap machine.
Does a palletizer pay off on one shift?
If your plant runs a single shift, a palletizer takes over half the labor it would on two. Here is the gantry on one shift and on two, with our ROI calculator's other assumptions unchanged — one person stacking, 8-hour shifts, installation included.
Run it with your own numbersGantry, one shift
- Labor hours replaced / year
- 2,000
- Net saving / year
- $53,030
- Investment
- $118,800
Gantry, two shifts
- Labor hours replaced / year
- 4,000
- Net saving / year
- $109,030
- Investment
- $118,800
Estimates to size a decision, not a quote. They count labor hours only — turnover, overtime and injury costs are real costs these numbers leave out.
New entry-level vs used palletizer
We sell new machines, so weigh this accordingly. A used palletizer can be the right call — the right-hand column is what to check before you decide it is.
| Aspect | New entry-level | Used — what to check |
|---|---|---|
| Up-front price | Published starting price — $99,000 for our gantry | Usually lower on the invoice |
| Fit to your cases | Configured to your cases, pattern and pallet | Built for someone else's product; check what reconfiguring it costs |
| Controls | Current controls and parts | Check the controls' age and whether parts are still available |
| Safety | Standard safety included | Check it against your site's current safety requirements |
| Documentation | Electrical schematics and US-based support from us | Ask for schematics and manuals before you buy |
| Installation | Scoped and supported by us | Still needed — and someone has to own it |
Already own an older palletizer?
If it's mechanically sound, a controls or safety retrofit may cost less than any palletizer, new or used. That's a services project, scoped to the machine you have.
Is a small plant ready for a palletizer?
If most of these are true, a simple palletizing system is worth pricing. If they aren't, we'd rather tell you now.
Talk it through with usSomeone stacks pallets for most of a shift
The labor a palletizer displaces is the whole case for it. Count the real hours per shift first.
Your heaviest case is 65 lb or less
That keeps you on the gantry and its lower starting price. Heavier cases need a robotic palletizer.
The line runs at low to medium speed
The gantry is built for steady end-of-line rates rather than the fastest lines in a plant.
There is room for the cell and its pallet
The gantry's footprint is its frame. We lay it out on your floor plan before anything is quoted.
Cases arrive one way, reasonably spaced
How cases reach the palletizer matters as much as the palletizer. Messy infeed is worth fixing before the machine arrives, not after.