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Press releases

• TRANSPORTING CHERRY TOMATOES UPM Conveyors (Stand no G3) claim to cater for all types of production handling applications ranging from compact integrated conveyors through to total turn key projects on a world wide basis where all aspects of manufacturing are carried out in-house including fabrication; programming and control build allowing complete supervision of quality/inspection and maintaining delivery promises. UPM were awarded the Queens Award for Innovation by revolutionising the handling of food in production areas and are now celebrating 35 years of designing and building belt conveyors offering both traditional stainless steel and ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWP) construction which has FDA approval for food contact applications. UPM have noticed a distinct trend with automation of product handling in conjunction with robots and their exhibits at Total will reflect this. http://www.upmconveyors.co.uk/news.htm

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• £150k SPEND PAYBACK IN 8 MONTHS Intier Automotive in Redditch selected UPM Conveyors Ltd to automate the product handling from a bank of seven large tonnage Injection moulding machines which offered a pay back time of only eight months against an investment of £150k by improving efficiency and reducing labour. Originally an operator was employed on each machine to visually check and carry out secondary operations on the moulded parts which would then be stacked in a stillage ready to be taken to the assembly area via a pallet truck or fork lift. The UPM solution allowed a robot on each machine to feed the moulding onto a belt conveyor located at high level which traversed for transporting to a main conveyor some 60 meters long for transporting to a central area where a vastly reduced number of operators would perform the same task that was previously carried out at each machine as per the enclosed photograph. The UPM central PLC touch screen control programme was written in house by UPM Conveyors Ltd to ensure the system was user friendly and interfaced each machine robot cycle time for the complete range of mouldings produced and eliminated any possibility of a collision on the main conveyor. Due to the success of this project UPM have since installed additional belt conveyors to further extend the system. All aspects of manufacture are carried out in house at UPM including fabrication; programming and control build allowing complete control of quality / inspection and maintaining delivery promises. http://www.upmconveyors.co.uk/news.htm