SCOTT Automation has revealed details of a project to design and install an automated multi-line palletising system at Poco Loco, a Belgian producer of tortilla wraps, chips and snacks who are part of the Finnish Paulig Group.
The system was installed in a new building in Roeselare and handles the output of several new production lines. The solution covers all processes from accumulating the packs on buffer tables, to palletising using the latest version of Scott’s palletiser PAL 4.0, full pallet wrapping, labelling, and conveying to the high bay warehouse.
Scott explained that the customer opted for the the company’s multi-line solution over the single-line solution offered by other suppliers. It is designed to enable further expansion that will accommodate double the current palletising capacity of up to 50 pallets per hour.
The first phase covered four tortilla packing lines, sending filled cartons and display boxes to the buffer tables and one central PAL 4.0 palletiser. Once enough product is buffered to fill a complete pallet, the system summons it, transports it to the palletiser, and creates the pallet.
The product infeed is described as being at a high level (about 3.5m) to free up the access flow on the floor between production lines.
Scott added that the multi-line solution brings a range of benefits including ‘low cost of ownership, reliability, space utilisation, high performance and the highest standard of hygiene and safety’.
