WRAPPING UP THE PALLE TISING MARKE T

Over thirty years ago, InterSystem’s founder seized an opportunity to build a company based around his revolutionary new palletiser design. Today, the company has evolved into the market leader in northern Europe, boasting tens of millions of Euros in annual turnover and a unique position in the palletising market. Company CEO, Erik Johnsson, chatted with Richard Hagan about the business of palletising Europe’s goods.

InterSystem AB, based in Ängelholm in Sweden, supplies bespoke palletising solutions for consumer products. The company designs, builds and installs systems for palletising worldwide, including self-produced conveyors for light goods and pallet handling.

InterSystem’s automation solutions are based around the company’s signature, uniquely compact palletiser, around which conveyor solutions, stretch wrappers and marking equipment are integrated. The company’s multi-palletiser is its most popular product, thanks partly to its compact dimensions and its high capacity. The machine allows the customer to palletise products from two separate production lines and produces two different pallets.

A big idea about downsizing

In the 1980s, InterSystem’s founder, Anders Persson, was employed at a company that was providing very similar solutions to those provided by InterSystem today. There, Mr Persson developed relationships with some of the company’s customers, and two of those in particular – one in Norway and one in Germany – requested a very compact palletiser, something which his current employer did not have available at the time.

Developing the design for such a palletiser in his spare time, Mr Persson realised that this could be a nice opportunity to start a business of his own. So, with the above-