The installation was completed in 2011 and was part of Veetee Rice’s investment into a new UK packing operation and mill expansion. This saw its annual milling capacity increased to 125,000 tonnes and the new packing system handles a diverse range of bag types (including PE, paper, hessian and woven polypropylene), in sizes from 5 to 45kg and rates of up to 1,000 bags/hour.
Flexibility of operation was an important design feature, which saw the two different packing systems provided for pre-made bags or the form, fill and seal option; gusset reforming on the pre-made bags; plus various closing options including heat sealing or stitched sealing with crepe over taping.
To help meet Veetee Rice’s strict quality control procedures the packing system includes metal detector and reject conveyor; plus a high-level check-weigher and X-ray machine with reject conveyor.
The sealed bags are transferred to a high level Chronos BTH PGB1000 Palletiser in an adjacent warehouse, which allows optimum palletisation to be achieved complete with bag overlapping for maximum load stability. The integral empty pallet magazine includes a PE bottom sheet dispenser and the whole palletising system is capable of automatic operation with three different types/sizes of pallet.
Line automation at Rochester was completed with the utilisation of a CHRONO-STRETCH RAINBOW – a stretch hooder, which operates with two different reels of films for the different sized pallets and changes automatically to accommodate the different sized pallets. Outloading of the hooded pallets can be carried out directly into the warehouse or onto a truck loading station.
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