Turnkey automatic packing plant for Border Aggregates

Chronos BTH have secured an order from Border Aggregates to supply a new fully automatic packing system for their Carnforth facility in north Lancashire. 



The new packing system is due for installation later this year and is being supplied on a turnkey basis as part of Border Aggregates’ plant expansion and upgrade programme. Once installed the packing system will be used for filling pre-made polyethylene bags with various products at rates of up to 800 bags/h.

An important feature of the new packing system is the in-built flexibility that Chronos BTH have been able to incorporate into the main bag filling station. This flexibility gives Border Aggregates the option of retrofitting a tubular form fill seal system into the bag filling station, which will allow them to increase future packing outputs up to 1,200 bags/h.

Product will be fed into a VLFS filling system via a volumetric dosing belt, which receives closed loop feedback from an inline check weigher that is positioned after the sealing station. The filled and sealed bags are elevated up an inclined indexing conveyor into a PCD 1200 high-level palletizer, which also incorporates an empty pallet magazine and out-feed conveyors. 



Chronos BTH engineers will undertake the installation and commissioning of the system that will be used for medium and large bags of product. Border Aggregates’ customer base includes local authorities, builder's merchants, DIY outlets, garden centres and landscapers. The products being packed are sourced from sources across the UK and abroad.

Terry Billington, managing director of Border Aggregates, explained why they placed the order with Chronos BTH: ‘Following reference visits earlier this year to Holland to see the Chronos BTH manufacturing centre and an existing aggregate packing installation we immediately recognized the quality of the engineering and equipment. This led to us placing an order for our new packing line. Not only do we have full confidence in the suitability of the equipment to pack our products, but also in Chronos BTH as a company; not only for the supply of the new equipment but also in the future for their after-sales support in the UK.’

Chronos BTH Ltd, Unit 1, Centurion Business Park, Blenheim Industrial Estate, Nottingham NG6 8WN; tel: (0115) 935 1351
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