TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION ADVERTORIAL Cimcorp to expand its production and office facilities in Ulvila, Finland
Leading intralogistics automation specialist will nearly double its current building footprint to accommodate continued business growth, customer needs and investment in research and development
Notably, the
expanded facility will allow Cimcorp to build upon its strengths in the development of unique material handling systems. With this expansion, Cimcorp will have a total floor area of 17,400 square metres.
Masatoshi Wakabayashi, CEO, Cimcorp Oy, said, “Our
Architect's image of Cimcorp’s expanded facilities, with new buildings shown in yellow (final materials and colours to be decided)
imcorp, a manufacturer and integrator of turnkey robotic gantry-based order fulfilment and tyre- handling solutions, announces construction plans to expand its production and office facilities at its headquarters in Ulvila, Finland. The new facilities will be built on 8,500 square metres of land, bought by Cimcorp in August 2017, nearly doubling the footprint of its current 9,500-square-metre space. The expansion will enable the company to accommodate its continuing business growth with greater capacity and efficiency, as well as incorporate new space for research and development.
C The current facilities include 5,800 square metres
dedicated to manufacturing and 3,700 square metres of office space. The expansion will extend the floor area by 7,900 square metres, adding 5,700 square metres for production and 2,200 square metres for offices. With more manufacturing space, Cimcorp can meet growing customer requirements and volume increases with greater production capacity and the ability to manage larger- sized projects. Further, the new, three-floor office building will provide more room as the company continues to grow its team of staff.
Rutland choose UPM Conveyors R
decision to expand our Ulvila facilities is a direct result of the substantial business growth that we have seen over the last five years, and the expected continued growth into the future. There has been a sustained increase in orders, and we have continued to invest in product development. This expansion will ensure that we have the capacity and efficiency to continue to meet our customers’ demands and service the rapidly growing global marketplace. This new, larger facility will help us strengthen our position as a leading supplier of automated solutions for the tyre and distribution industries.”
Construction will begin during summer 2018, with plans for the facilities to be ready in summer 2019.
Cimcorp +358 10 2772 000
www.cimcorp.com
utland Plastics, is a private company based in Oakham Rutland with a 66000 ft sq factory and a turnover in excess of £10 million, operating moulding machines ranging
from 150 tonne to 1700 tonne. Looking to achieve unattended production on a Krauss Maffei KM150, Rutland Plastics selected UPM Conveyors to provide a turnkey solution requiring 8 belt conveyors to allow automatic product divert for QC inspection; ferrous/non-ferrous metal detection; product cooling; parts separation and box filling with a capacity of 8 full; 8 empty and 1 filling.
Product divert is achieved with a small reversing conveyor located onto a swan neck
conveyor in the well of the machine and at any stage in production an operator can energise to reverse and transfer a shot to an integral sample drawer for QC inspection. Metal detection is based on UPM inserting a search coil under the inclined section
of the Swan Neck in the well of the machine and on detecting a foreign body will energise an audible / visual alarm and stop the belt conveyor so an operator can check and remove the contamination. This does not affect the moulding machine cycle as product continues to be produced
and accumulated on the conveyor until the operator has reset to start again. Product cooling is necessary to avoid any deformation to the mouldings which are
produced in PP on multi-cavity tools ranging from 8-16 impressions mould and 4 sprues with a section thickness of 5 to 15mm and UPM fitted a cooling tunnel with high flow air fans to reduce the temperature from 80oc to 20oc. Parts separation is via a roller drum with central adjustment for the gap to allow
ease of changing so the sprues exit onto another swan neck for transfer to a granulator and mouldings discharge to a third swan neck for conveying to the box filling station. The UPM box filling station is a two tier construction and was designed to
accommodate 8 full boxes; 8 empty and 1 filling with the box located onto a weigh scale to count by weight which achieves an extremely high level of accuracy so on achieving the correct pre-weight/count the overhead conveyor will stop; the full box is indexed off and an empty box brought onto the weight scale which initiates the overhead conveyor to start again repeating the cycle. When all boxes are full a sensor will energise an audible /visual alarm to alert an operator. The central control is a PLC controlling all aspects of the system interfacing with
the variable speed drives on each conveyor and connecting to the weigh scale. Rutland expressed their total satisfaction with the UPM project team who installed and commissioned the system which is operating 24/7 trouble free.
UPM Conveyors 01753 548801
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