Sorting capacity is increased
February 1st 2006

Welconstruct Customer Solutions has successfully completed a contract to increase sorting capacity at Chums, the mail order clothing company, with minimal disruption to output during installation.

Chums wanted to increase its daily throughput of parcels from 3500 to 9000 to meet growing peak demands and future growth capacity without adding additional labour.

Welconstruct designed, supplied and installed a new 13 lane drop-belt sorting machine which handles a parcel every 2.5 seconds, a number of conveyors to feed the machine from the existing packing line and the associated automatic control and monitoring systems.

Graham Rubin, managing director of Chums, said: "In addition to increasing capacity, a key contractual requirement was to disrupt Chums' output as little as possible during the site work. Welconstruct approached the installation in such a way that it did not occupy excessive warehouse space and our operation was not compromised."

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