New Automated Pallet Debanders
Raise Safety Levels at Britvic
Automation & Materials Handling
WE BELIEVE
IN SAFE,
AUTOMATIC
PRODUCTION.
DO YOU?
Britvic uploads almost 100,000 aluminium
cans from pallets onto each of three new
canning lines per hour at the company’s
upgraded Rugby production site. Now the
process of removing each pallet’s plastic
retaining straps has been fully automated
using vertical debanders manufactured
by L.B. Foster Automation & Materials
Handling.
Britvic is the largest supplier of branded
still soft drinks, and the number two
supplier of branded carbonated soft
drinks, in Great Britain. Following £100m
investment at Rugby, L.B. Foster’s new
debanders are integrated into Britvic’s
three new can lines, which are amongst
the fastest in Europe.
Mick Haswell is Maintenance Manager - debanders tick all the boxes when it Materials Handling, says: “Britvic is one
Canning at Britvic Soft Drinks Limited in comes to speed, accuracy and safety, of the world‘s most recognisable brands.
Rugby. He says: “Britvic’s vision is to be with the added bonus of reducing our The products that it makes are household
the most dynamic, creative and trusted environmental footprint with its clever, in- names. So we are very proud that the
soft drinks company in the world, which built recycling hopper for plastic retaining company has invested in our high-
is why we are investing in technologies straps. These are shredded and the performance range of debanders as part
that enable us to operate more safely, resultant granules sent for recycling.“ of its drive towards increased production
efficiencies.
effectively and efficiently.
Mick Haswell continues: “As part of a
“That goes hand-in-hand with our £100m investment in Rugby, Britvic “What our robotic debanders do is
commitment to providing high quality has installed three new can lines which automatically locate, cut and remove
working conditions and environment are amongst the fastest in Europe, with vertical plastic straps from stacks of
for our operatives. L.B. Foster‘s vertical each line producing up to 2,000 cans drinks stored on pallets. These retaining
per minute. The investment is designed straps are used widely in the food and
to step-change the speed and flexibility beverage industries to secure goods
of our production lines whilst delivering on pallets during transportation. Safely
environmental benefits through greater removing and disposing responsibly of
efficiencies. the straps is a challenge facing the sector.
L.B. Foster’s high performance
Debander solutions safely remove
millions of retaining straps daily
for some of the world’s best
known brands.
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custom-designed machines that remove
manually. That‘s time consuming and pallet retaining straps, both vertically
repetitive work, which runs the risk of and horizontally. Having removed the
repetitive stress injury. Robotic debanders retaining straps, our debanders also
automate this task, which is a win/win in shred the plastic straps for recycling. It‘s
terms of safety, productivity and improved just one of the innovations that sets our
working conditions for our operatives.“ debanders apart from our competition.“
Paul Parkinson, Head of Sales & For further information visit
Marketing at L.B. Foster Automation & www.lbfoster.eu
Automatic
Debander safely
removes
pallet
straps
See our Debander in action:
www.lbfamh.com
No more
manual
pallet strap
removal
“Our debander solutions include
“In the past, straps were removed
Our Automatic Debander:
> removes straps safely,
quickly and efficiently
> prevents risk of injury to
operatives
> automatically granulates
straps for recycling
> is proven in use in the brewery,
soft drinks, food and non
food sectors.
Get in touch:
L.B. Foster Automation
& Materials Handling
6 The Midway
Lenton
Nottingham
NG7 2TS
+44(0)115 8 400 500
[email protected]
www.lbfamh.com