articleModular roller track
The Eleroll modular roller track system from Elesa includes hard thermoplastic and soft-touch elastomer rollers plus omnidirectional ball rollers.
article
productKey to safety
The revised EN ISO 14119 defines Escape Release as the ‘possibility to release manually without aids the guard locking from inside the safeguarded area to leave the area’, explains Rob Lewis, MD at Fortress Interlocks.
productTough conditions
Frontline Packaging completed the supply and installation of a specially adapted bale wrapper for Zeon Chemicals around 12 months ago and the machine hasn’t missed a beat since.
productKnapp posts record results
Intralogistics automation provider, KNAPP, concluded a very successful fiscal year 2013/14 with a record turnover of 383.75 million eEros, while the opening of offices in Australia and Russia during the year highlighted the group’s continued international growth.
articleExamining palletiser safety
Paul Laidler, business director for machinery safety at TÜV SÜD Product Service sets out common sense safety precautions for the use of palletisers and depalletisers.
productFloor conveyor for The White Company
As part of expansion plans, The White Company has recently consolidated its three UK warehouse operations into one 200,000ft2 distribution centre (350,000ft2 including the mezzanine floors).
articleSorters save energy
Crisplant says garment handling need not be energy intensive with its sorter ranges.
productM&S automation order
The contract to design and install automated material handling systems at Marks & Spencer’s national distribution centre in Bradford has been awarded to KNAPP.
articleFedEX to automate latest regional distribution centre
FedEx Express will include an automated sort system, as well as ramp, freight and sort facilities in a new facility that will act as a gateway to the Nordic region.
productAffordable palletising
Reducing the cost of palletising, CSi has introduced the cost effective Smart-Pal, which can handle up to 20 items per minute, depending on the type of product and infeed.
productCrate order picking system
Automated warehouse solutions provider TGW has provided Spanish supermarket chain, Mercadona with a new full crate order picking system, which enables fresh produce totes to be picked and ready for dispatch in less than six hours.
newsEuroSort wins injunction to protect patent
At a recent CeMAT event in Germany, start-up company Smatec introduced its new sorter.
productABB automates its warehouse with the help of Swisslog
Swisslog has received its latest order to create a state-of-the-art AutoStore facility in Switzerland.
productPortillo interviews Pacepacker and Fanuc MDs at PPMA show
At the recent 2014 PPMA show, Pacepacker’s managing director Dennis Allison and Chris Sumner MD of FANUC had the honour of meeting Michael Portillo.
productAGV system for dairy
New Zealand dairy producer Fonterra has ordered a new AGV system for its processing plant in Pahiatua from Egemin Automation, which encompasses four new AGVs with battery handling system and E’tricc software.
productASOS posts surprise upturn in results
Online retailer claims further gains are likely as the major automation projects rolled out by the company come on stream.
productFull control & traceability
Installation of a Cimcorp robotic material handling system has made full tracking and tracing of tyres possible at one of Russia’s largest tyre plants, belonging to Cordiant. The Dream Factory concept provides total material flow, from tyre building to tyre finishing and storage in the warehouse.
productExpanded packaging offering
Following this year’s PPMA Show, which saw Kite Packaging collaborate with Audion Swissvac, the UK supplier has now expanded its packaging machinery range to provide more choice and solutions for its customers.
productConveyor provides product transfer between floor levels
The component division of a leading German automobile manufacturer awarded Conveyor Systems Ltd (CSL) a contract to improve the efficiency in transferring car wheel assemblies between ground and mezzanine floor levels, as the existing vertical platform elevator was both slow and proving to be unreliable.
productGetrag Ford Transmissions gear up with Interroll Dynamic Storage
Interroll recently installed a Dynamic Storage system at the Liverpool factory of Getrag Ford Transmissions.
