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Why AIR?
Automated Industrial Robotics (AIR) unites technical depth, operational strength, and modern capability in a single partner built for ambitious manufacturers.
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Capabilities
Deep process and systems expertise, engineered to optimize performance, efficiency, and long-term operational success.
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Sectors
Discover how AIR can help your drive innovation, efficiency, and scale.
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Medical
Driving innovation in medical device assembly, surgical instruments, orthopedic, cardiology & CRM, peripheral and continence care, and more.
Pharma
AIR partners with leading pharmaceutical companies to design, build, and support advanced automation systems for complex, highly regulated production environments.
Semiconductor
Enabling startups, global semiconductor equipment OEMs, and semiconductor fabs to scale to high-volume production systems.
Food & beverage
Proven experience across a wide range of food and beverage manufacturing processes and products including tea, bakery, pet foods, ready meals, beverage and tobacco.
Automotive
We bring the latest automation thinking, expertise, and equipment from ultrasonic welding, clipping, screwing, and snapping to materials handling, inspection, and traceability.
Consumer goods
AIR brings together deep, specialist automation expertise to deliver complex solutions across cosmetics, personal care, pet care, and electronics manufacturing.
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About AIR
AIR combines deep engineering expertise, industrial scale, and advanced capability in one powerful partner for ambitious, progressive manufacturers.
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Deep process and systems expertise, engineered to optimize performance, efficiency, and long-term operational success.
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We partner with ambitious, progressive manufacturers across the medical, pharma, semiconductor, food & beverage, automotive, and consumer goods sectors. Discover how AIR can help your drive innovation, efficiency, and scale.
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Emerging technology,
semiconductor and more
AIR in Silicon Valley focuses on high-tech industries, offering specialized expertise in semiconductors, medical products, renewable energy, emerging technologies and data storage. Across our six sites, we work in a range of sectors:
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Medical, pharmaceutical
and more
AIR in Shannon, Ireland focuses on advanced automation for the MedTech industry. Across our six sites, we work in a range of sectors:
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Deep expertise for
progressive manufacturers
Across our six sites, we offer specialized expertise and automation innovation to a range of sectors:
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Pharma, medical, food and beverage,
consumer goods and more
Across our six sites, AIR works in a range of sectors:
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Medical devices, filling
machines and more
AIR in Sligo, Ireland delivers advanced automation solutions for medical and life sciences manufacturers, including flexible filling systems and high-speed filling systems. Across our six sites, we work in a range of sectors:
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Deep automotive
expertise and more
AIR in Rochester Hills specializes in the design and manufacture of fully integrated stand-alone assembly, specialized machines, and automated and secondary assembly equipment. Across our six sites, we work in a range of sectors:
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Automation for the world’s leading food and beverage companies

AIR has enabled innovative, large-scale, advanced manufacturing in the food and beverage sector since 1979. Now with over 600 specialists, six facilities, and more than 400,000 sq ft of production space, we partner with some of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, helping to drive innovation and progress, with offerings including palletization, case packing, AMRs and conveyors.

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45-year track record.
Delivering innovation and scale for the food and beverage sector since 1979.
600+ global team.
Drawing on decades of innovation in high-speed, automated food and beverage manufacturing.
6 fully integrated facilities.
One team across multiple US and European facilities, with 400,000+ sq ft of production space.
I can say without hesitation that they’ve exceeded all my expectations as a vendor. The support from concept development to project close out and beyond is second to none.
One of the world’s largest food and drink manufacturers
Why AIR for food & beverage

End-to-end partner

Deep, agile partnership and complete lifecycle support — from concept and design through build and commissioning to ongoing optimization.

AIR collaborates with some of the world’s top food and beverage manufacturers, with automation solutions delivered in the USA, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Scale and agility
With 600 people, six facilities, and 400,000 sq ft of capability behind us, we have the infrastructure to scale complex solutions reliably. Yet we operate with the flexibility, energy, and hands-on mindset of an ambitious, progressive engineering partner to help our food and beverage clients innovate, scale, and win.
Scale and agility
Deep food and beverage production expertise
We bring the latest automation thinking, expertise, and equipment from processing, filling, and labeling to packaging, palletization, and traceability. Our cross-functional food and beverage engineering expertise will help you innovate and scale.
Expertise
Proven, consistent, 7-step project management framework
Every food and beverage automation project is executed using our proven, standardized seven-step project management framework consistently applied across the AIR organization. Combining engineering disciplines, key suppliers, and customers into a single, unified delivery model.
Project management
All-in commitment
Our project management system provides structure and consistency, but collaboration is where we truly differentiate. We align around shared goals, open communication, and clear accountability, integrating food and beverage customers and suppliers into one focused team.
All-in commitment
Full lifecycle support with AIR360
When new food and beverage manufacturing systems go live, we don’t step back; we lean in. AIR360 delivers full lifecycle support for both our systems and third-party equipment, with proactive maintenance, training, and upgrades that maximize performance, reduce downtime, and extend asset life.
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Food & beverage capabilities
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Food & beverage capabilities

Product experience

AIR has experience in a wide range of food and beverage manufacturing processes and products, for both European FMCG producers and American CPG producers, including:

Tea
World-class expertise in tea bag formation and tea line modernization.
Bakery
Extensive high-speed, high-volume packaging and packing of baked goods.
Confectionery
Collaborating with some of the world’s largest confectionery and candy manufacturers.
Beverage
Expertise in product handling, filling, labeling, wrapping, and palletization.
Ready meals
Several projects completed with UK-based ready meal producers.
Pet foods
Streamlining, modernizing, and accelerating pet food lines.
Tobacco
Expertise in case packing, cartoning, labeling, laser coding, and traceability.

Food and beverage manufacturing capabilities

AIR delivers innovative process thinking and automation for progressive manufacturers.

Assembly & handling

Filling automation capabilities

End-of-line capabilities

Application specific capabilities

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Certification and standards excellence

  • Fanuc authorized system integrator
  • Kawasaki preferred integrator
  • ISO 9001 certified
  • Robotics Industries Association member
  • Thomas verified and approved
Sites
AIR Wakefield facility exterior
Rochester Hills, MI, USA
AIR Rochester Hills facility exterior
Wakefield, UK
AIR Shannon facility exterior
Shannon, Ireland
AIR Silicon Valley facility exterior in Fremont
Silicon Valley, CA, USA
AIR Mullingar facility exterior
Mullingar, Ireland
AIR Sligo facility exterior
Sligo, Ireland
Food & beverage case studies
Ready meal trays moving along a high-speed case packing line
Automating high-speed case packing to boost ready meal throughput

The customer required an automated solution to pack ready meals into cases ahead of shipping. The system needed to accommodate multiple product types of varying sizes and quantities per case while integrating…

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Tea bag machine overhaul and upgrade for Tetley tea

TATA wanted to launch a range of specialty teas to complement their traditional Tetley Tea line. Their existing tea bag making machine could mix loose tea but could not form or package the bags to meet…

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Stainless steel conveyor sections on a palletizing line
Intelligent box sorting and palletizing improves efficiency

The aim of this project was to implement new technologies to improve the efficiency and simplify the palletizing process of boxed product. One challenge was to achieve the end goal but still minimize the…

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