published on 26/03/10
A group of highly skilled mechanical engineers from a local engineering outsource provider have successfully completed the installation of a conveying system at a Greencroft Bottling Co to transfer product from a newly installed tray erector and bottle packing machine into various storage areas.
The mechanical engineers who between them have over 20 years experience also successfully installed a tray erector and bottle packing machine.
The contract was to supply a system to interface with automated packaging machinery, conveying complete packs from the out-feed of the inline tray erector/bottle packing machine.
On exiting onto a shaft-powered roller conveyor, a pack turner reorientates the trays through 90degree to continue on around a 180 degree bend and up an inclined belt conveyor to an 11m high level lime shaft conveyor. Trays of shrink wrapped bottles are transported at height around a 90 degree bend and can continue along the new line or be transferred onto one of two existing high level conveyors. A declining gravity conveyor section can be manually positioned to transfer product downwards to where a manual diverter blade merges transported goods onto one of the two existing conveyors.

Read the full article at Food and Drink International