Handling variety
December 1st 2010 McKechnie Plastic Components
(MPC), part of the Melrose Group,
has installed the Rotoplat 507
machine to wrap a range of plastic
components made for a wide variety
of industries. The machine, supplied
by Robopac from Aetna Group, has a
typical output at the firm of 150–200
pallets/day over a two shift pattern, 7
days per week. All items are palletised
prior to transportation, so the pallet
wrapper has to be both flexible and
reliable.
"Our products can range from
quite small, irregular shaped items to
big, heavy parts for the construction
industry," explains logistics manager
for MPC, Russ Cox."Having preprogrammable
wrappers, which can
store a variety of information to cover
these variances, has improved the
whole
palletising
process for
us. And we
can do
double or
even triple
wraps to
account for
weight and
instability." More articles from AETNA GROUP UK: | 
