Chronos BTH Limited

In these challenging economic times users of Premier Tech compression balers, bagging/packaging/palletising systems, and screeners; and Verville compression baling systems can get more reliability from their equipment by maintaining it and servicing it regularly.

An existing Chronos manual bagging system has recently been upgraded to automatic operation at Potters Ballotini Ltd in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. This company is an international manufacturer of a diverse range of Highway Safety and Engineered Glass material products, with small granular particles up to 1000 microns diameter.

F. Ball and Co. Ltd from Leek, Staffordshire is the UK’s leading manufacturer of flooring adhesives and floor preparation products for the contract flooring market and they recently sought out our expertise in robot palletising.

Chronos Richardson believes that to achieve the most out of a Robot Palletising Systems end-users need to get a good grip on the business end of the robot. To achieve this Chronos has developed a range of innovative gripper heads, which achieves the optimum output from the world leading Kawasaki Robot Arms. Below is a quick run through of the different types of gripper that we currently offer:

One of the fastest bagging lines for pre-made open-mouth bags in the world the CHRONO-FILL PTK is now available from Chronos Richardson in Nottingham. This new product has evolved from the co-operative development arrangements within the Chronos Richardson Group, which is a Business Unit of the Canadian company Premier Tech.

Chronos Richardson’s ongoing partnership with one of the world’s leading supplier of robotic arms, Kawasaki Robot has led to enhanced palletising speeds for the CHRONO-PAL™ RP Robot Palletising System. The range of equipment is capable of palletising bags, pouches, cartons, boxes, pails, buckets, drums, and multipacks at speeds up to 2400 packs per hour.

According to Berwick upon Tweed based grain and seed merchant McCreath Simpson & Prentice [MSP] their new Chronos Richardson FIBC filling system has provided them with “easier bag handling and better plant logistics.

Chronos Richardson Limited will be attending the IPack-Ima 2009 exhibition in Hall 4 Stand B11, on the stand of their sister company Chronos Richardson SRL.

In April 2002 Richard Simon Limited became part of the Premier Tech Group of companies and Richard Simon engineers and personnel were integrated into Chronos Richardson Limited.

Nottingham based Chronos Richardson is one of the latest group of successful companies to join a leading scheme, designed to help industry improve its safety record.

In the first six months of this year PB Kent & Co has seen an increase of more than 20% in fertiliser packing at their Immingham Dock facility thanks to bagging equipment supplied by Nottingham based Chronos Richardson.

A motorised bag gripper assembly is the latest innovative solution to emerge from Chronos Richardson’s comprehensive research and development programme. The unique gripper assembly provides robot palletisers with a ‘5th movement axis’ for precision bag positioning every time. The gripper’s innovative operating technique allows end-users to achieve quality loaded pallets that have hitherto only been achievable with conventional palletisers.

Accurate recording of all bulk material movements around feed and flour mills, grain terminals and ports can provide an enhanced level of accurate weight recording and performance monitoring. Whilst many installations utilise weighbridges or silo weighing systems for their weight recording, bulk throughput weighers provide a more accurate and cost-effective alternative.

R Twining & Co Limited, a company that has traded for more than 300 years and that has developed a unique place in the British tea industry has selected Chronos Richardson equipment for their new packing facility.

In the run up to the Interpack trade show in Germany, Chronos Richardson has added a brochure for the CHRONO-FILLTM OML 600 open-mouth bagging system to their range of product literature.

Following their recent move to a new factory in Nottingham Chronos Richardson has continued its company development programme through the implementation of the first in a series of updates to their website www.servicechronos.com

The latest generation of the Chronos Richardson E-series nett weighers meets the highest demands for accuracy and performance across a range of bagging applications and industries.