Abstract: Palletizing apparatus having an air table pivoted on a compression plate, the table being swung up to a raised inclined position for receiving bags to be stacked on a pallet from an infeed conveyor with the bags arranged in a layer on the table, and swung down to a lowered position and moved to a retracted position below the conveyor for withdrawing the table from under the layer of bags for deposit of the layer to form the stack on the pallet, the pallet being held on an elevator, the bags on the pallet being compressible against the bottom of the compression plate by raising the elevator, and a pallet magazine below the conveyor from which a pallet is transferred to the elevator on each cycle of the apparatus for the stacking of bags on the pallet.