ADVERTORIAL TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION
artin-Brower UK Ltd, part of The Martin- Brower Company, L.L.C., has continued a long and successful relationship with Leeds-based Union Industries by becoming one of the first companies to take advantage of its innovative Ice-Pic freezer door.
After identifying a procedure that cost the company valuable production time and often resulted in heat ingress into the freezer, Martin- Brower UK called in Union to help drive greater efficiency at its Heywood distribution centre.
Prior to the installation, employees had to walk out of the freezer area to the chilled loading dock via a large external door in order to take labels from a printing machine, then walk back into the freezer to continue the process. Now, with the help of Union’s Ice-Pic Door, much time is saved as operatives no longer need to exit the freezer to collect their printed labels – they simply push a button on the wall in the freezer and the fast acting door, which is positioned over a waist high 600mm x 600mm hatch, opens up quickly to allow workers to reach through and pick the labels from the printer. The door then closes automatically when operatives leave the vicinity of the opening.
Union’s patented Ice-Pic Door is a hybrid of Union’s ground breaking Eiger Door and its most recent innovation, the Picadoor. By combining features from both, the company has created a fast acting door which is capable of operating on small internal openings between chilled areas and freezers with temperatures as low as -30 degree Celsius.
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Safety is paramount at Martin-Brower UK.
The Ice-Pic Door, which is perfect for small hatches such as at Heywood, pedestrian use doorways and potentially for small conveyor openings from chill to freezer environments, includes one safety photocell as standard and a wireless contact safety edge to reverse the door back to the open position should it come into contact with an object within the opening.
The door at Martin-Brower’s
distribution centre also has an active infra-red (AIR) sensor positioned above the opening on the cold store side which ensures additional safety for operatives using the Ice-Pic Door.
Alan Hirst, Sales Director at Union Industries,
said: “The Ice-Pic Door is a great addition to Union’s extensive range of high speed doors. We are always evolving to meet our clients’ needs and I’m sure that this door in particular will meet quite a few.
“It’s great that a company such as Martin-Brower UK has decided to once again opt for a Union door; it speaks volumes for the quality and durability of our products as well as the after- care support we provide.”
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www.unionindustries.co.uk
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he EA eDIPTFT43-ATC intelligent display is now available with capacitive touch-screen.
Touch is detected whether or not the user is wearing gloves. Usable with normal and standard medical gloves. The display is designed for day-to-day use in harsh industrial environments with a 6H surface hardness making it scratch resistant. With the zero bezel design the capacitive touch-screen is usable in environments where strong cleaning agents are used and traditionally resistive touch-screen could not be used. The EA eDIPTFT43-A has 480 x 272 pixels, diagonal screen size 4.3 inch and supports up to 65,536 colors.
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urrelektronik has expanded its MASI Gateway line for
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Interface installations with PROFIBUS, PROFINET and Ethernet/IP fieldbus system components.
These gateways are the bridge between higher-level fieldbus systems and MASI installations in the machines.
The new MASI gateways come with comprehensive diagnostic tools including an Ethernet interface for direct access to the gateways' webserver.
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