Prestigious tea bagging project completed

Chronos Richardson’s high accuracy weighing and packing equipment has been installed at the Twining’s Andover factory in Hampshire during the Easter 2008 shutdown. The equipment forms an essential part of the most critical aspects of the ‘Twining Tea Process’, where the premium grade tea leaves are carefully graded and classified according to their type and appearance.

A vibratory fed Automatic E55 bagging weigher discharges the weighed and graded leaves into plastic lined cardboard cases, which have been manually placed at the filling position by the operator. The boxes are pre-assembled before the filling station and have been carefully designed to provide added protection for the high value leaves and to eliminate moisture ingress during storage.

The internationally renowned E55 weigher, installed onto a bespoke designed support framework, is controlled by the world-leading SpeedAC NXT weighing controller. Weighments in the range of 12.5 to 45.0kg are carefully settled, under vibration, into the manually positioned lined cardboard cases. The filled cases are moved away from the filling area via an integrated box liner sealer, and takeaway conveyor system.

Engineers from Chronos Richardson have worked to the exacting standards requested by R Twining & Co Limited, and the whole project was supplied on a turnkey basis, with full installation and commissioning being undertaken by Chronos Richardson service engineers.

Chronos Richardson Limited is a Business Unit of Premier Tech.