Combined system doubles efficiency
December 1st 2006 A combined belt and roller conveyor system is said to have doubled efficiency at Cookes Furniture distribution centre in Birmingham and the same system is about to be installed at the retailer's expanding Christchurch store. Two mezzanine floor belt conveyors and gravity roller tracks were specifically designed by Rusmail Conveyor Systems to move items of vastly varying sizes and weights between ground floor and mezzanine floor levels. James Pike, operations director at Cookes said: "The Rusmail solution was half the price of other ones, as well as halving the unloading time from the delivery vehicles. The system has created a logical flow for products through the building, from Goods Inwards through custom storage bays to loading on our own delivery fleet at despatch." Not only has the system speeded up the movement of furniture, it has made Cookes a safer place to work. Furniture is transferred directly from arriving vehicles on to the bottom of the first belt conveyor, which reduces manual handling for the operatives and eliminates shoulder height lifting. More articles from Rusmail Conveyor Systems Ltd: | 
