articleClipper automates returns process with LB Foster
The ever-increasing success of online fashion shopping led to a demand for greater capacity for processing returns at Clipper’s Selby distribution centre.
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productMixed product trays
Automation specialist Pacepacker Services has developed a new offline, portable Mixed Tray Loader pick-and-place system to quickly generate assorted trays of product.
productCorrugated industry strapper
Developed to meet the needs of the corrugated cardboard industry, strapping large-format products for secure transportation, the new Mosca EVOLUTION SoniXs TRC-6 combines the company’s SoniXs ultrasonic sealing technology with a compact design and easy access for cleaning and maintenance, made possible by a new Standard-6 strap path system which can be easily disassembled and reassembled without tools.
productSpeed & flexibility
According to Qimarox, the company’s innovative product lifts, pallet lifts and palletisers are proof that high capacity and flexibility can go together with low operating costs and a high degree of durability.
productUser-friendly features
Post print services supplier Comag Forward is continuing its long-standing relationship with strapping specialist Mosca Direct with the installation of four Mosca Romfusion automatic strapping machines at its distribution hub in Coventry.
productIncreased capacity palletising robots
Capable of operating 2050 cycles per hour with a 130kg payload is the claim of Kawasaki Robotics for its new CP range of palletising robots. Three new models make up the CP range, offering maximum payloads of 180, 300 and 500kg.
productUser friendly packaging system
Since it unveiled its refinement of the proven high-capacity packaging system at interpack 2014 in the form of the new BEUMER stretch hood A, BEUMER Group reports excellent customer feedback regarding the packaging system.
productControl technology drives innovation
When conveyor and handling specialist New Motion looked to expand its product range with a new design of gantry robot palletiser, it turned to Omron for control technology and technical support.
productExclusively equipped
Specialist in the design and production of automatic stretch wrap film pallet wrappers and pallet movement systems, Technowrapp’s Runner Arm pallet wrapper – said to be the world’s fastest – is exclusively equipped with Bonfiglioli motors.
productIncreased productivity
Render Technology, a specialist in the manufacture of end-of-line handling and palletising machines for the packaging market, has switched its drives partner to Emerson, seeing productivity of its machines increase by 20% as a result of using Emerson’s Control Techniques Unidrive M variable speed drives.
productFormer Sainsbury’s CEO headline speaker for PPMA Show
Justin King CBE, former CEO of Sainsbury’s, and a leading figure in the FMCG and Grocery Retailing sectors, has been confirmed as the headline seminar speaker at the PPMA Show.
productClarks’ automated warehouse hits 10 year milestone
KNAPP has rewarded its team of resident engineers for 10 years service at the automated warehouse of Clarks, the global shoe supplier.
productStrapping machines
Stephens & George Print Group has once again turned to strapping specialist Mosca Direct to fulfil the requirements of its expanding production-line, with the installation of two SoniXs Evolution MP-6 T strapping machines.
product20 years of business
Since being founded twenty years ago, Qimarox has become a producer of components for material handling systems that are sold globally.
productMore bags for your buck
Customer demand for faster, more-versatile bulk bagging has inspired Pacepacker Services to launch a new high-speed bagging line called FastPac. The first in this range, an upgraded sack placer, is already available and is set to boost the number of bags packed per minute by up to 20%, offering a new top speed of 16-17 bpm.
productKite acquires Golden Valley
Kite Packaging has announced completion of a transaction with the administrators of Golden Valley Pallet Wrap Specialists, in which Kite has acquired the business, its goodwill and certain assets of Golden Valley. Kite Packaging will not assume any of the liabilities of Golden Valley.
productSolution combines robotic palletiser with AGV
CSi and JBT have announced that the i-Pal palletiser can be integrated with the JBT JayBoT AGV to deliver a fully-automated, affordable end-of-line solution for producers of fast moving consumer goods.
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productProject management service
Strapping specialist Mosca Direct has launched a dedicated Project Management service to provide customers with consultation and expert advice during the specification and supply of a new strapping machine.
productHigh Tension strapping
Gordian Strapping has supplied a new vertical strapping machine to producer of concrete paving products, Marshalls, at its site in Newport. Gordian has been a supplier to Marshalls for over 3 decades and has successfully installed in excess of 30 strapping, wrapping and hooding machines during this time.
