New baler saves time and money
February 1st 2006 Fruit supplier, Capespan generates a huge amount of packaging waste at its Sheerness base. In the past the company used a vertical baler and baled around 40-50t per month.
As a vertical baler is so labour intensive it took around one hour to make one 400kg bale. Having read about how Compact & Bale had saved another fresh produce supplier time and money, Capespan contacted the company for a waste and recycling report.
"We proposed a large feed aperture Durapac CB- 65," says Steve Burnett from Compact & Bale. "It's a horizontal baler with an aperture large enough to take a full pallet of material. Capespan's fruit boxes don't flat pack easily and come out from the pack house stacked on pallets so the machine needed to cope with this.
"The 65 tonne press and large bale chamber make bales weighing up to 700kg, which nearly doubles the bale size produced by Capespan's previous baler, so it saves them time, handling and storage.
"The machine is capable of making 7-8 bales per hour and continuous manning has now been replaced with one operator who is needed for 2 minutes every time a full pallet is ready and a further 5 minutes every 20 pallets." More articles from Compact & Bale Ltd: | 
