EXHIBITIONS
Search is on to see who can handle it
Industry gets into gear as 400 companies step into the driving seat at this year’s IMHX show.
FORKLIFT trucks may not be the most glamorous vehicles in the world but visitors to this year’s International Materials Handling Exhibition (IMHX) will be left in no doubt about their value to industry.
Organisers say the event taking place at Birmingham NEC from March 19 to 22 is shaping up to be the best ever, with many exhibitors planning product launches, live demonstrations and competitions. Few exhibits will catch the
eye quite like the supersonic Bloodhound vehicle that looks destined to draw the crowds towards the stall hosted by Linde Material Handling in the skills and apprenticeships zone. Bloodhound SSC (SuperSonic Car) is a jet- and rocket-powered car designed to go faster than the speed of sound and set a new world land speed record of 1000mph.
The 14m long, seven tonne speed machine would leave even the fastest forklift for dead but
ALLEN CODING SMELLS THE SWEET AROMA OF A CONTENTED CUSTOMER ON THE ISLE OF ARRAN
New RX-S ink jet printer improves production process and makes cost savings
Allen Coding Systems’ coding & marking equipment is in use all around the world, but perhaps nowhere more breathtaking than on the wildly beautiful Isle of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland. Arran Aromatics, which has recently purchased a Hitachi RX-S Small Character Continuous Ink Jet Printer from the Stevenage-based company, is already making savings due to less downtime on its production line and more prints from its ink package. Arran Aromatics, which has been hand-making bath, body and home fragrance collections from the island’s finest ingredients since 1988, initially required an ink jet printer following an improvement in its quality control procedures which meant a more permanent coding system was needed on the candle production line. The company also decided to make the bulk of its products and fill all of its own eau de toilettes at the Arran site rather than out-sourcing, which led to the need for a more manoeuvrable, flexible machine.
The RX-S continuous ink jet printer is specially designed for accurate
reproduction of a wide range of fonts in multiple languages, as well as bar codes and 2D DataMatrix codes, logos and graphics directly onto uneven or flexible substrates, including glass, plastics, metal and rubber. Developed for today’s exceptionally fast and challenging production
environments, it is currently operating at Arran Aromatics’ production site at speeds of up to 25 units per minute, although they have also had it running at 40 units per minute. Allen Coding’s RX-S is specially designed to be exceptionally user friendly,
reliable, easy to use and to install. Arran Aromatics’ new printer was up and running after a day with an Allen engineer who installed the machine on the island and provided training on how to operate and maintain it properly.
For product information please contact
Steve Ryan, Allen Coding Systems, Unit 9, Gateway 1000, Whittle Way, Arlington Business Park, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 2FP Tel: 01438 347 770;
www.allencoding.com
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the Bloodhound team – headed by project director, Richard Noble, and the car’s driver, Royal Air Force fighter pilot, Andy Green – still rely on Linde and its forklift truck hire team when the super fast car is transported around the country. Linde, one of the project’s
sponsors, uses one of its H50 counterbalance trucks to load and unload the vehicle from an articulated lorry.
Linde is one of many exhibitors using IMHX as the launch pad for new products and services and with over 40 first-time exhibitors already confirmed among the
NEW pick-and-pack system at IMHX
IMHX visitors looking to increase the efficiency of pick-and-pack and dispatch zones will find the latest advances in mail order fulfillment and protective packaging from Automated Packaging Systems on Stand 20C10.
“Next generation automated and semi-automated mail order fulfilment Autobag®
and SidePouch®
systems have been available in the United States for several years, and they have revolutionised pick-and-pack operations for many customers,” explains Automated Packaging Systems mail order fulfillment expert Martin Richards.
Mail order fulfilment OneStep systems do exactly what the name implies: print postal and traceability data on the next bag out, then open it for packing and sealing in a single ‘step’. They are part of the ultra-reliable Autobag range of baggers and are available in vertical and horizontal configuration with the ability to process mail bags up to 400 x 700mm in size.
In addition to AB OneStep systems, Automated Packaging Systems also offer the SidePouch®
SPrint Autofulfillment system intended for higher volume
applications with capability of running at speeds of 720packs/hour. The SPrint indexes opened bags to the operator ready to be loaded. Once the order details are scanned a label applicator will print and apply the relevant carrier label to the bag. The operator can then put the order contents into the open bag, before it continues along the conveyor to be sealed.
To find out more about Automated Packaging Systems, Autobag® SidePouch®
, and AirPouch® , , or for information about how Automated
Packaging Systems solutions can benefit your business visit stand 20C10 at IMHX exhibition 2013 or
www.autobag.co.uk
January-March 2013
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