News Unmanned weighbridge opportunity
Avery Weigh-Tronix has launched its new automated weighbridge control station AVS-7, which it claims offers more functionality and flexibility as standard than other solutions. The AVS-7 is an automated control console with an advanced E1310 indicator and thermal printer inside an IP56 enclosure. It is supplied with a standard qwerty keyboard, ID card reader and intercom. The new system has an easy to read display with clear and simple driver prompts.
Says product manager Chris McAllister: “The advantages of fully automated weighbridge access for 24/7 operation, to ensure accurate data capture and to lower costs are well rehearsed. We have introduced this new system to offer customers maximum flexibility from a standard system. Other manufacturers offer many of the features found on our standard unit as optional extras.”
The E1310 indicator is an advanced controller that features network capabilities. This allows monitoring and reporting via the web, email and FTP. It can connect to a LAN or WAN via wireless RF. Typically the AVS-7 would be installed as part of a complete unattended vehicle weighing solution. It acts as the interface between the truck driver and the weighbridge system. Other possible components of an unmanned weighbridge solution might include a vehicle detection loop, barrier gates,
S+S sorts £1.7M deal
The new Flake Purifier multi-sensor sorter was instrumental in S+S Inspection winning the £1.7M order to equip the new mixed plastics recycling facility being built by Greenstar WES with funding from WRAP (Waste & Resources Handling Action Programme). In a three way contest, S+S Inspection was the only supplier to provide an integrated system that achieved the high performance standards demanded. The new facility, a world first for Greenstar WES, will process 20,000 tonnes of mixed plastics from household and consumer recycling collections per year. The nature of the plastics to be sorted, a mixture of margarine tubs, yoghurt pots, meat trays and other consumer packaging, presented significant sorting problems placing demanding requirements on the sorting and separation equipment.
The new S+S Flake Purifier uses a combination of NIR (Near Infra Red) and CCD (Charge Coupled Device) cameras to reliably sort even mixed plastics flakes. New technology polymer type identification by NIR absorption characteristics can separate a single combination of colour and plastic type, such as light blue PET, from a mixed material stream. In the configuration for the Greenstar WES installation, S+S
uses Varisort machines to sort mixed plastics, colour sorter variants of the Flake Purifier to separate coloured plastics and the NIR version of the Flake Purifier as the final stage to separate flaked polymers into pure final product streams. S+S will deliver the sorting and separation equipment in September 2010 and the new facility is planned to come on stream in early 2011.
www.solidsandbulk.co.uk Solids & Bulk Handling • August 2010 7
automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras, traffic lights, a remote display and the company’s MI Payload PC software package for complete data management.
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68