Keep the drinks coming
August 1st 2009 Amber Automation has
installed a conveying system
at Greencroft Bottling Co to
transfer product from a
newly installed tray
erector/bottle packing
machine into various
storage areas.
The contract was to
supply a system to interface
with automated packaging
machinery, conveying
complete packs from the
out-feed of the inline tray
erector/bottle packing
machine. On exiting onto
Amber lineshaft powered
roller conveyor, a pack
turner re-orientates the trays
through 90° to continue on
around a 180° bend and up
an inclined belt conveyor to
a 11m high level lineshaft
conveyor. Trays of shrink
wrapped bottles are
transported at height
around a 90° bend and can
continue along the new line
or be transferred down onto
one of two existing high
level conveyors. A declining
gravity conveyor section can
be manually positioned
(up/down) to transfer
product downwards to
where a manual diverter
blade merges transported
goods on to one of the two
existing conveyors.
Managing director of
Greencroft Bottling Co, Mark
Satchwell, says the system
was installed with minimum
disruption to the ongoing
business and was executed
on time and to budget: "A
good job well done", he
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