No more double handling
After meeting Compact & Bale at an exhibition and seeing the Strautmann AutoLoadBaler MD of contract packaging company, Cannon Packing and Logistics, Ian Doye, wanted to re-evaluate the company’s waste management process so that the staff could spend more time on core business and less time on waste handling.
Compact & Bale conducted a thorough waste audit at which identified that although baling cardboard generated income for the business, it was labour intensive with the existing vertical baler.
With space at a premium Compact & Bale’s innovative solution to reduce waste handling costs was to install the AutoLoadBaler, which has a small footprint and lower cost than a horizontal semi-automatic baler.
The small waste team can now keep up without incurring overtime costs on baling. Cannon bales over 20 tonnes of cardboard per month, consisting mainly of small to
medium size boxes generated from 1.75 million packs per month.
The enormous amount of loose boxes were being double handled firstly by the packing team throwing them into pallet boxes, then being collected by a member of the waste team on a pallet truck and then handled again to be placed into the existing baler – this process would take 10-15 minutes per pallet box.
The AutoLoadBaler and collection cart system located at source of waste eliminates the double handling and saves 15 man hours per week, or 32 days per year! 15 collection carts are now placed at the ends of the packing lines so the Cannon waste team simply wheel the cart to the AutoLoadBaler, replace the empty cart with the full one, push the button and walk away.
