Even across four processes, it handles only one at a time
The overlap in four-process uptime, net labour hours and responsibility for integrated maintenance separates the plants that should buy a mobile cell from those that should wait.
Horizon and Unchained Robotics have moved a mobile palletising cell that can serve folding, saddle stitching, perfect binding and packaging into volume production. Even though it supports four processes, it can handle only one at a given time. The success of the investment depends less on robot speed than on process overlap and the contract for integrated maintenance.
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Horizon has moved a cell that can travel between four finishing machines into volume production. On 2 November 2026, the company announced that orders for its palletising cell with Unchained Robotics would begin through Horizon. The product follows pilot operation and several rounds of development.…
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