Excelis Automation

2760 N Service Dr • Red Wing, MN 55066 United States

Excelis Packaging Automation is a North American provider of integrated packaging automation solutions, bringing together decades of expertise across filling, capping, labeling, conveying, material handling, and end-of-line packaging. Through its family of specialized companies, Excelis delivers standalone equipment, integrated systems, and complete packaging line solutions for manufacturers across industries including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, personal care, chemicals, and household products. Founded in 2024, Excelis combines American- and Canadian-made equipment with engineering expertise, responsive service, and a single point of contact to help customers improve efficiency, scale production, and simplify their packaging operations. Each of the companies within Excelis provides over 30+ years of experience: Volumetric Technologies, SureKap, Kraken Automation, AB Technology Inc and Technical Beverage Services.

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Case Packing Equipment

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Kraken Automation, an Excelis Packaging Automation Company, designs and integrates automatic case packing systems for end-of-line secondary packaging. Rather than treating the case packer as a standalone machine, Kraken engineers each system around the product, pack pattern, production rate, case format, and available footprint. Loading methods include top loading, drop loading, and robotic pick-and-place, handling bottles, cartons, bags, jars, tubs, and clamshells. Kraken integrates third-party case erectors and sealers into a coordinated system and can tie case packing into upstream infeed, orientation, and accumulation, as well as downstream checkweighing, coding, reject, and palletizing. The result is higher throughput, less manual handling, and more consistent case loading across the line.

Types of Case Packing Equipment

  • Case or Tray Erectors & Formers
  • Case or Tray Loaders

Features:

  • Automatic
  • Horizontal/End/Side Load
  • Robotic
  • Robotic loading
  • Vertical/Top/drop load

Food & Beverage Processing Equipment

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Technical Beverage Services, an Excelis Automation company, provides high-quality replacement parts and preventive maintenance programs for beverage fillers and depositors from manufacturers including KHS, Crown, Simonazzi, Arol, and Krones. The company also offers a large selection of replacement knives, along with gripper chains for rinsers, lowerators, and elevators. Technical Beverage Services carries more than 4,000 parts, available at TBSParts.com.

See the Food & Beverage Processing Equipment page on this company's website.

Types of Food & Beverage Processing Equipment

  • Depositors
  • Food & Beverage Accessories & Components

Features:

  • Manual

Liquid Fillers

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Volumetric Technologies, an Excelis Company, designs and builds filling and depositing solutions, manufacturing automated filling machines to increase manufacturer’s efficiency and production capabilities. From entry-level semi-automatic to custom multi-lane piston, PD servo, rotary, overflow or pail filling equipment. They are known for machines and dispensing nozzles that handle thick, chunky, or foamy liquids and sauces.

See the Liquid Fillers page on this company's website.

Types of Liquid Fillers

  • Gravity Fillers
  • Net Weight Fillers (Liquid)
  • Piston Fillers
  • Pressure Fillers

Features:

  • Automatic
  • CIP
  • Entry-level/budget models available
  • Inline
  • Liquids with particulates
  • Monoblock
  • Non-viscous liquids
  • Rigid container form/fill/seal
  • Rotary
  • Viscous liquids
  • Washdown (wet)

Package Types:

  • Rigid Ampoule or Vial Package Type Icon
    Ampoule or Vial
  • Rigid Bottle or Jar Package Type Icon
    Bottle or Jar
  • Rigid Cup, Bowl or Tub Package Type Icon
    Cup, Bowl or Tub
  • Bulk/Industrial Pail Package Type Icon
    Pail
  • Semi-Rigid Portion Pack Cup Package Type Icon
    Portion Pack Cup
  • Flexible Pouch Package Type Icon
    Pouch
  • Rigid Tray Package Type Icon
    Tray

Cappers

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SureKap, an Excelis Automation company, manufactures capping machines that secure and tighten caps on a wide variety of containers and bottles. For more than 30 years, SureKap has built inline chuck cappers, spindle cappers, and snap cappers with a focus on customer service. The company's VersaKap machine, designed for efficiency and versatility, consistently caps triggers and pumps with stems. VersaKap is one example of SureKap's stainless-steel-frame capping solutions.

See the Cappers page on this company's website.

Types of Cappers

  • Overcappers
  • Press-on Cappers
  • Retorquers
  • Screw Cappers

Features:

  • Automatic
  • Entry-level/budget models available
  • Inline
  • Semi-automatic
  • Washdown (wet)

Package Types:

  • Rigid Ampoule or Vial Package Type Icon
    Ampoule or Vial
  • Rigid Bottle or Jar Package Type Icon
    Bottle or Jar
  • Rigid Cup, Bowl or Tub Package Type Icon
    Cup, Bowl or Tub

Rigid container closing equipment

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SureKap, an Excelis Automation company, manufactures rigid container closing machines including pump applicators, designed to secure and tighten closures on a wide variety of containers and bottles. In addition, for more than 30 years, SureKap has built inline chuck cappers, spindle cappers, and snap cappers with a focus on customer service. The company's VersaKap pump and sprayer capping machine, designed for efficiency and versatility, consistently caps triggers and pumps with stems at 50 bottles per minute (bpm) and offers a 12-month ROI. Other SureKap capping/container closing machines reach speeds up to 120 bpm.

See the Rigid container closing equipment page on this company's website.

Types of Rigid container closing equipment

  • Corking Machines
  • Pump Applicators

Features:

  • Automatic

Package Types:

  • Rigid Ampoule or Vial Package Type Icon
    Ampoule or Vial
  • Rigid Bottle or Jar Package Type Icon
    Bottle or Jar
  • Bulk/Industrial Pail Package Type Icon
    Pail

Blister & Clamshell Packaging Equipment

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AB Technology, an Excelis Company, offers fully custom-engineered automated Pad and/or Label machine which denests trays and clamshells, applies a shot of glue then inserts the absorbent padding material, applies either a top label and/or bottom UPC label, then upstacks the products at speeds up to 160-200+ parts per minute. AB delivers American-made quality for a single or dual lanes for thermoform/clamshell production.

See the Blister & Clamshell Packaging Equipment page on this company's website.

Types of Blister & Clamshell Packaging Equipment

  • Custom Engineered Blister & Clamshell Packaging Equipment

Features:

  • Tool-less changeover

Package Types:

  • Semi-Rigid Clamshell Package Type Icon
    Clamshell

Conveyors

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Constructed with heavy-duty stainless steel, SureKap's tabletop conveyors are available in most lengths and belt widths of either 4.5-, 7.5- or 10 in. Each conveyor features a variable speed drive, acetal low friction belt and adjustable height. Conveyors also feature poly-plastic belts. No change parts are required for these conveyors.

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Types of Conveyors

  • Flighted Conveyors
  • Incline Conveyors
  • Infeed & Discharge Conveyors
  • Modular Conveyors
  • Roller Conveyors
  • Tabletop Conveyors

Features:

  • Entry-level/budget models available
  • Packages
  • Polymer
  • Steel

Product & Package Handling

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Kraken Automation, an Excelis Automation company, designs and integrates production and full-line packaging systems that move products from production to pallet. As a single point of contact, Kraken brings control and precision to complex packaging lines, providing merge, divert, lane-balancing, and downstream case stacking and packing solutions. The company combines more than 30 years of engineering expertise, proven automation components, and integration experience to deliver product flow solutions that connect upstream production with downstream packaging.

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Types of Product & Package Handling

  • Custom Engineered Product & Package Handling
  • Lane Dividers, Merge & Transfers
  • Stacking Machines
  • Tilters & Shakers
  • Tray/Crate Handling Machines

Feeding & Inserting Equipment

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Kraken Automation, an Excelis Company, engineers robotic pick-and-place case packing systems as part of fully integrated end-of-line lines. Its documented top-load configuration uses robotic pick-and-place to group and place bottles, cartons, bags, jars, tubs, and clamshells into corrugated cases, with recipe-driven changeovers suited to operations running multiple pack patterns or SKUs. Kraken works as an integrator rather than a single-machine supplier: it pairs its packers with third-party case erectors and sealers, and coordinates upstream infeed, orientation, and accumulation along with downstream checkweighing, coding, reject, and palletizing so the packer runs in sync with the rest of the line.

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Types of Feeding & Inserting Equipment

  • Pick-and-Place

Labeling Machines

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Excelis has a variety of labeling options. AB Technology builds a machine that handles thermoformed clamshells and trays at up to 180 BPM. SureKap, also an Excelis Company, offers an inline labeler that fills in well on a variety of lines, but especially with SureKap’s capping machine or before a Volumetric Technologies filling machine. Engineered to increase production efficiency and accuracy, this machine handles a variety of bottles/containers, which could be round or non-round.

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Types of Labeling Machines

  • Pressure-Sensitive Label Applicators
  • Roll-fed Labelers

Robotic Integrators

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Kraken Automation, an Excelis company, designs and integrates robotic systems that move products from production to pallet. Serving as a single point of contact, Kraken brings control and precision to complex packaging lines, ensuring products arrive where and when they are needed. The company combines more than 30 years of engineering expertise, proven robotic automation components, and integration experience to deliver robotic solutions that connect upstream production with downstream packaging. Kraken also designs full production lines.

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Types of Robotic Integrators

  • Robotic Integrators Robotic Integrators

Facility Design & Engineering Services

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Kraken Automation, an Excelis Company, designs and integrates full secondary packaging lines that move products reliably from production to pallet. Offering specialties including systems integration and engineering, they partner for a single point of contact to bring control, precision, and success to complex packaging lines—ensuring every product arrives exactly where it needs to be, when it should. Krakens combines over 30 years of engineering expertise, proven automation components, and integration experience to deliver solutions that connect seamlessly upstream production and downstream packaging.

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Types of Facility Design & Engineering Services

  • Engineering Services
  • System Integrators

Additional Offerings

We offer liquid to thick sauce filling machines, capping, unscrambling and label machines, plus customer end-of-line material handling and case packing equipment. High-speed Labeling and Padding equipment for produce and proteins in thermoformed clamshells/trays. Parts for OEM Filling Machines.