Packaging automation
Primary and secondary packing: multihead weighing, vertical form-fill-seal, cartoning, case packing, labelling and end-of-line inspection.
- Multihead weighers
- VFFS baggers
- Cartoners & case packers
- Checkweighing & metal detection
The art of modular automation
We build packing and palletising lines that grow one module at a time.
Most plants don't need a whole new factory. They need the bottleneck removed — and a line they can extend next year without paying for it twice. TASSHEN designs the layout, builds the equipment, and installs it on your floor.
- 48 h
- to a costed budget range on your layout
- 7–9 months
- from signature to production, installation included
- 1
- contract, one drawing set, one team on your site
- 0
- locked code — drawings and PLC programs are yours
Capabilities
Four disciplines,
one engineering team.
We handle the mechanical design, the electrical design, the controls and the installation in-house. You get one contract, one drawing set and one team on site — not four suppliers pointing at each other.
Robotics & palletising
Robotic pick-and-place, layer palletising and depalletising cells, with grippers designed around your product and your pallet pattern.
- Palletising cells
- Delta & SCARA pick-and-place
- Custom grippers
- Stretch wrapping
Warehousing, racking & VNA
Moving product between production, storage and dispatch: conveyor networks, elevation, buffering, autonomous forklifts and AMR fleets.
- Z-elevators & spirals
- Accumulation & buffering
- Autonomous forklifts / AGV
- Dispatch & loading lines
Controls & integration
PLC and HMI programming, safety circuits, control panels built to EU standards, and integration with the machines you already run.
- PLC / HMI programming
- Control panels & wiring
- Machine safety & CE marking
- Line data & OEE reporting
How we deliver
The layout is the project.
Most quotes for a packing line are a price and a flat 2D sketch. We start by walking the floor and redrawing the product's route — because that is where the money is. A shorter route means less steel, fewer motors, less maintenance for the next ten years.
STAGE 01
Site survey & layout
We measure the plant, map the product route and return a 3D layout with the options costed against each other.
Included in the offer
STAGE 02
Detail engineering
Mechanical, electrical and controls design signed off with your engineering team before a single part is cut.
3–4 weeks
STAGE 03
Manufacturing & FAT
Built in our partner plants under our own drawings and inspection, then factory-tested before shipping.
4–6 months + ~1 month shipping
STAGE 04
Installation & training
Mechanical install, commissioning, operator and maintenance training, then warranty support with spares held in Europe.
~1 month on site
Typical total: 7–9 months from signature to production. Retrofits inside a running plant are scheduled around your shutdown windows.
Selected project — confectionery
A shorter route, and a line that cost a third less to build.
€210K
Saved against the competing offers on the same brief, by redesigning the product route instead of quoting the one we were given.
Jelly production to packing, over two levels
A confectionery plant in southern Poland was expanding to meet volumes already committed to its retail customers. The offers on the table routed product the long way around the building — one of them doubled the conveyor length, another came in close to €465,000.
We surveyed the site, lifted the product to a second-level platform and ran a direct distribution line into the weighers and baggers, including a retractable section to satisfy the fire-wall requirement between halls.
- Scope
- 2 Z-conveyors, distribution line, hoppers, retractable section, control panel
- Delivery
- Engineering to handover in 12 months, no production stoppage
- Since
- Two years in service, zero warranty claims
Full case study available on request — including layout drawings and the route comparison. Ask for it →
Equipment
The module set.
Every line we install is assembled from these building blocks. Standard where standard works, custom where your product demands it — same interfaces either way, so the line can be extended later.
Z-conveyors & elevators
Lifting product between levels without breaking flow — the backbone of most retrofits.
Hoppers & buffers
Accumulation between stages so one stop upstream doesn't stop the whole line.
Multihead weighers
Fast, accurate portioning for jellies, snacks, frozen product, powders and hardware.
VFFS baggers
Form-fill-seal machines matched to your film, bag format and required rate.
Palletising cells
Robot or gantry, with grippers and pallet patterns designed for your case and load.
Autonomous forklifts & AMR
Pallet movement between production, racking and dispatch without a driver.
Conveyors
Modular belt, roller, chain and sanitary stainless conveyors for wet and dry areas.
Control panels
Built and wired to EU standards, documented, and yours to maintain — no locked code.
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Warehouse systems
Racking, VNA and the layout that decides both.
A warehouse is won or lost on the layout. We measure the hall, study the aisle widths against the truck you intend to run, and come back with a drawing that states how many pallet positions you actually get — before anyone quotes steel.
Layout & capacity study
Rack zones, aisle widths, cross aisles and free operating zones drawn to scale, with the pallet-position count and the assumptions written on the drawing.
- Pallet positions per level and total
- Aisle width against truck Ast
- Gates, charging and free zones
- Rev. drawings with your feedback
Pallet racking
Selective adjustable-beam racking as standard, drive-in and shuttle lanes where the product allows it, up to 13 m top beam level.
- Structural calculations to EN 15512
- Installation tolerances to EN 15620
- EN 1090-1 CE, EN 10204 3.1 certs
- Upright guards & end barriers
VNA trucks & AMR
Very narrow aisle turret trucks, man-up or man-down, wire or rail guided, plus autonomous forklifts for the pallet moves that do not need a driver.
- Turret trucks for 1.8 m aisles
- Warehouse navigation & positioning
- Li-ion opportunity charging
- Autonomous forklifts / AGV
WMS & fleet management
Location management, FIFO and FEFO rules, scanner-confirmed moves and a fleet manager that assigns the task to the truck that is closest and charged.
- Location & stock management
- FIFO / FEFO enforcement
- Fleet management & task assignment
- Integration with your ERP
Warehouse enquiries: send the hall drawing and the pallet type, and you get a layout with the position count back. Send us a hall drawing →
Sectors
Built for food plants first.
Food manufacturing sets the hardest rules: washdown, allergen segregation, gentle handling, seasonal peaks. Lines that survive that environment tend to be over-specified everywhere else.
Company
A small engineering team with a long supply chain.
TASSHEN is an automation integrator based in Poland. We design in Europe, manufacture through vetted partner plants in Asia under our own drawings and inspection, and install with our own people. That is why our lines land between the cheap local quote and the two-million-złoty import — with the engineering of the second one.
Our engineers have spent years on food and packaging plants across Europe and North America, and we work with your team in Polish, English, Spanish, French or Mandarin — including with the factories that build your equipment.
- Engineering
- In-houseMechanical, electrical and controls design under one roof, with 3D layouts and isometrics before you commit.
- Ownership
- No locked codeDrawings, PLC programs and documentation are handed over with the line. You are never locked to us for a change.
- Support
- EU-based sparesCritical spares held in Europe, remote diagnostics, and engineers who can be on your floor rather than on another continent.
Contact
Tell us where the line stops.
Thirty minutes with one of our engineers is usually enough to tell you whether the problem is worth automating, roughly what it would cost, and how long it would take. No charge, and if it isn't worth it, we'll say so.
- office@tasshen.com
- Phone
- +48 734 469 047
- Headquarters
- TASSHEN LTD
71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden
London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom - Regional office
- TASSHEN Sp. z o.o.
ul. Straganiarska 20-22/35
80-837 Gdańsk, Poland