Zakład Mechaniczny Jerzy Robak

What Zakład Mechaniczny Jerzy Robak does

Zakład Mechaniczny Jerzy Robak is a Polish industrial machinery manufacturer founded in 1996 by Jerzy Robak in Stare Miasto, Greater Poland (Wielkopolska). The company designs and builds complete bottling and packaging lines for liquids, specializing in equipment for spirits, beer, wine, soft drinks, mineral water, chemical, and pharmaceutical producers handling glass and PET bottles. Its product portfolio covers the full bottling cycle — depalletizers, washers, rotary monoblocks, fillers (mass and vacuum), closing machines and a proprietary range of closing heads (GR/GM/GW/GZS/GMS/GMT series with magnetic clutches delivering 0–50 Nm torque and ±1.5 Nm repeatability), cap feeders, sorters, palletizers, conveyors for bottles/pallets/cartons, and end-of-line equipment including shrink wrappers, carton erectors, carton folding machines, and cartoning machines. The firm also produces format parts, spare parts, and offers overhauls and modernization services, and in October 2023 added a CNC laser cutting and metal bending service using Bystronic equipment targeting both internal production and external clients.

The business operates on a direct enterprise field-sales model, with quote-based pricing on custom-configured machinery and multi-year contract cadence. End-to-end service is bundled with each sale — technical consultation, custom project design, manufacturing, on-site assembly, trial run, commissioning, operator training, and 24-hour after-sale service — positioning the company as a full-service partner rather than a transactional equipment vendor. Customers include Wyborowa, Stock Polska, Destylarnia Sobieski, Żywiec Zdrój, Nałęczowianka, Maspex–Tymbark, Coca-Cola HBC Polska, Nestlé Polska, Reckitt Benckiser Poland, Herbapol Lublin, and Aflofarm Farmacja Polska, with international sales reported across 10+ countries including Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Denmark, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the United States. The company is founder-owned, with approximately 5 reported employees, and positions itself as a specialist in the spirits-industry machinery niche built on Jerzy Robak's original domain expertise.

Name

Zakład Mechaniczny Jerzy Robak

Legal name

Zakład Mechaniczny Jerzy Robak

Website

https://robak.konin.pl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Zakład Mechaniczny Jerzy Robak is a Polish manufacturer founded in 1996 that designs and builds custom industrial bottling and packaging lines for spirits, beverage, pharmaceutical, and chemical producers, serving enterprise clients across Poland and 10+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Bottling and Packaging Machinery

NAICS

Packaging Machinery Manufacturing (333993), Food Product Machinery Manufacturing (333241)

SIC

General Industrial Machinery & Equipment (3560)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYIMAHAOAF

Filling & Dosing Machines (Liquid/Powder/Solid)

Industrials, Manufacturing & Construction/Industrial Machinery & Heavy Equipment/Packaging Machinery (Automated & Semi-automated)

SECONDARYIMAHAOAK

Conveying, Feeding & Accumulation Systems (Packaging Lines)

Industrials, Manufacturing & Construction/Industrial Machinery & Heavy Equipment/Packaging Machinery (Automated & Semi-automated)

Keywords

• Industrial bottling equipment
• Bottling line machinery
• Bottle filling machines
• Packaging machinery
• Closing machines

Headquarters

HQ city

Stare Miasto

HQ country

Poland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Industrial Machinery Manufacturing: Manufacture and sale of complete bottling lines and individual machines including depalletizers, washers, fillers, closing machines, conveyors, sorters, palletizers, and supporting equipment. Both automatic and semi-automatic configurations available.
2. Spare Parts Production: Production of spare parts for manufactured equipment and custom parts according to client specifications. Includes machining services such as milling, turning, grinding, gear cutting, and hardening.
3. Repair and Overhaul Services: Current and capital repairs of all equipment in bottling lines, adaptation of existing equipment to client needs, warranty and post-warranty service.
4. Metal Processing Services: Laser cutting and metal bending services using Bystronic equipment for own production and external clients. Processes various metals with full parameter repeatability.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Zakład Mechaniczny Jerzy Robak manufactures and sells industrial bottling and packaging machinery for the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, chemical, and cosmetics industries. The product portfolio covers the full bottling cycle — depalletizers, washers, fillers, closing machines, cap feeders, sorters, palletizers, conveyors, closing heads, and carton handling — plus complete turnkey bottling lines (linear and rotary/carousel configurations) in both automatic and semi-automatic versions. The company also provides spare parts production, overhauls and repairs, modernization of existing equipment, and in-house CNC laser cutting and metal bending services.

Product overview

Zakład Mechaniczny Jerzy Robak is a Polish manufacturer of industrial bottling and packaging machinery established in 1996. The company produces a broad, modular portfolio of machines and systems for automatic and semi-automatic bottling lines covering the full production cycle: depalletizing (depalletizers for bottles and jars, automatic and semi-automatic), washing (automatic rotary washers PBSz-01 series, semi-automatic PB-03, manual PB-01, linear LPB-08), filling (mass filling ANM-05/ANM-10, vacuum filling ANP-05/ANP-10, semi-automatic vacuum fillers, vacuum nozzles NP01-SR), closing (automatic multi-head AZW series and single-head ZR-02, semi-automatic ZRX-01, plus a full range of closing heads: GR/GM/GW/GZS/GMS/GMT series), cap feeding (mechanical MPZ-01, orientating MPOZ-03, magnetic MPZ-02-M, pneumatic PPZ-01), sorting (mechanical, pneumatic, centrifugal, vibrating), and end-of-line operations (palletizers DNB-120, shrink wrapping ZRT-01, bottle blow purging LPB, drying LOB-25, orientating AOB-18, rows separator). Supporting equipment includes instrumentation/format parts for all machine types, bottle guide assemblies, carton erectors, carton folding machines, and cartoning machines. The company also offers complete turnkey bottling lines (linear and rotary/carousel configurations), comprehensive after-sales service, spare parts production, overhauls, and a newly introduced CNC laser cutting and metal bending service using Bystronic equipment. The portfolio is organized around interoperable modules that can be configured into complete lines or supplied as standalone machines.

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Products and services

• Complete Bottling Lines (turnkey linear and rotary/carousel lines) Turnkey bottling lines in linear and rotary (carousel) configurations, operating in automatic or semi-automatic cycles, for spirits, beer, wine, and other food, technical, and chemical liquids in glass and PET bottles.
• Depalletizers (Automatic and Semi-Automatic) Crane-style depalletizers for handling glass bottles and jars on pallets. Automatic models (DNB-A09, DNB-A12, DNB-A18) up to 18,000 bottles/hour; semi-automatic models (DNB-PA09–DNB-PA22) up to 22,000 bottles/hour; jars depalletizer DNS-15 up to 20,000 jars/hour with 500 kg lifting capacity.
• Bottle Washers (Automatic, Semi-Automatic, Manual, Linear) Full range of bottle washing machines: automatic rotary washers PBSz-01 (4,500–30,000 bottles/hour), semi-automatic PB-03 (up to 1,500 bottles/hour), manual PB-01 (up to 1,000 bottles/hour), and linear LPB-08.
• Fillers (Automatic Mass and Vacuum Filling Machines) Automatic mass filling machines (ANM-05, ANM-10) for gravity/pressure filling of beverages, and vacuum bottle filling machines (ANP-05, ANP-10) for oxygen-sensitive products. Semi-automatic vacuum fillers up to 1,500 bottles/hour.
• Closing Machines (Automatic and Semi-Automatic) Automatic single-head (ZR-02 at 2,800 bottles/hour, ZR-02-W1 Pick and Place) and multi-head (AZW series 6,000–18,000 bottles/hour, Pick and Place W1/W2, Twist-Off variants) closing machines. Semi-automatic single-head ZRX-01 at 1,600 bottles/hour continuous or 1,200 bottles/hour discontinuous.
• Cap Feeders (Mechanical, Magnetic, Pneumatic) Mechanical cap feeders MPZ-01 and MPOZ-03 (orientating), magnetic cap feeder MPZ-02-M, and pneumatic cap feeders PPZ-01, with capacities 9,000–25,000 caps/hour.
• Sorters (Mechanical, Pneumatic, Centrifugal, Vibrating) Cap and bottle sorting equipment: mechanical sorters (SM-400/500/600 series up to 15,000 caps/hour), pneumatic sorters (SWK-600–SWK-1200 series up to 34,000 caps/hour), centrifugal sorters (PSO), and vibrating sorters (PW).
• Palletizers (DNB-120 Series) Automatic palletizers for stacking filled bottles onto pallets, completing the bottling line end-of-line.
• Conveyors and Transport Systems (Bottle, Pallet, Carton) Complete conveyor systems for internal transport: bottle conveyors (metal chains, plastic chains, in-line for glass/PET, FIFO/LIFO accumulation, buffering, vertical); pallet conveyors (roller, chain, turntables); carton conveyors (roller, belt, modular, O-ring, vertical).
• Closing Heads (GR, GM, GW, GZS, GMS, GMT Series) Comprehensive range of closing heads compatible with ROBAK, ALCOA, STORK, KRONES, NAGEMA, Dr. DATZ, and ZALKIN machines: GRW/GRZ-28, GRW/GRZ-18, MAXI-CROWN/GF-28, GMW/GMZ-29 (magnetic, 0–50 Nm torque, ±1.5 Nm repeatability), GMW/GMZ-11, GKW/GKZ-28, GWW/GWZ-20, GZS-30W1/GZS-28W1 jaw, GMS-30W2/GMS-28W2 jaw-magnetic, GMT-62/GMT-82 magnetic Twist-Off.
• Linear Bottle Drier (LOB-25) Linear bottle drying machine (LOB-25) for removing moisture from bottles after washing and before filling.
• Shrink Wrapping Machine (ZRT-01) Shrink wrapping machine (ZRT-01) for packaging bottles into film-wrapped packs.
• Bottle Blow Purging Machine (LPB) Bottle blow purging machine (LPB) for internal bottle cleaning using air/gas purging before filling.
• Automatic Bottle Orientator (AOB-18) Automatic bottle orientator (AOB-18) for orienting bottles correctly for downstream processing.
• Rows Separator Rows separator for dividing bottle rows in bottling lines.
• Carton Erecting Machine Automatic carton erecting machine for mechanical opening and tape-sealing of cartons, used in end-of-line packaging operations.
• Carton Folding Machine Automatic carton folding machine that forms boxes from flat cardboard sheets using cutting and folding knives, with optional automatic product filling and lid closing.
• Cartoning Machines (Kartoniarki) Automatic cartoning machines in horizontal and vertical configurations, fully and semi-automatic versions, with optional glue systems, leaflet applicators, and product transfer mechanisms for packing products into cartons.
• Laser Cutting and Metal Bending Service Precision CNC laser cutting of sheet metals (carbon steel up to 20mm, stainless steel up to 12mm, aluminum up to 10mm, brass/copper up to 6mm, galvanized steel up to 3mm) using Bystronic equipment, and CNC press brake bending of sheets up to 6mm including ribbed sheets. Guarantees 100% repeatability for large production series. Available for own production and external clients.
• Spare Parts Production and Machining Service Production of spare parts for proprietary equipment and customer-specified parts, including machining services (milling, turning, grinding, gear cutting, hardening) and gas-shielded welding. Full warranty and post-warranty technical service.
• Repair and Overhaul Services Current and capital overhauls of all bottling line equipment, adaptation of existing equipment to customer needs, and warranty/post-warranty repairs.

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights10 records

Broad incumbents

• KHS GmbH: German manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for beverages, dairy, and liquid food. Directly comparable product overlap with Robak including fillers, closers, labellers, and conveyors, with much greater R&D and global engineering capacity.
• GEA Group: German industrial machinery group with a significant liquid food and beverage division. Comparable on filling, bottling, and packaging equipment for food/beverage customers, but as part of a much broader industrial portfolio.
• Sidel Group: France-based supplier of PET bottling, filling, and packaging solutions for beverages, food, and home care. Highly comparable on filler, closer, and complete-line offerings to Robak, with substantially larger scale and global service footprint.
• Krones AG: Global market leader in beverage bottling and packaging machinery headquartered in Germany. Directly comparable to Robak as both supply complete bottling lines, fillers, closers, and conveyors to beverage producers, but Krones operates at massive scale across the full portfolio while Robak is a regional mid-market specialist.
• Tetra Pak: Global packaging and processing supplier for food and beverage, with filling and bottling equipment overlapping Robak's offerings for liquid food customers. Much larger scale and broader packaging-format portfolio.
• ProMach: US-based packaging machinery roll-up with beverage, food, and consumer goods bottling and packaging capabilities. Comparable product overlap on fillers, closers, conveyors, and complete lines serving the same beverage and consumer goods customer base.

Emerging players

• APACKS: Smaller-scale supplier of turnkey bottle filling and packaging lines for cosmetics, chemicals, and specialty liquids. Comparable mid-market positioning to Robak with similar focus on customizable complete lines for non-beverage liquid producers.

Direct peers

• Arol S.p.A. Italian specialist in capping and closing technology for beverages and food. Comparable to Robak's closing-head product line and capping equipment offerings, particularly relevant given Robak's compatible closing-head products across multiple OEM standards.
• Zalkin: French manufacturer of capping machinery referenced explicitly in Robak's compatibility matrix for closing heads. Closely comparable on closing technology for spirits, beverages, and consumer goods, and a direct competitor for capping/closing equipment upgrades.
• SMI S.p.A. Italian manufacturer of bottling and packaging machinery, closely comparable to Robak in scope (bottle handling, rinsing, filling, closing, conveying) and target market (mid-size beverage producers across Europe), but at larger scale and broader geographic coverage.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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