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Latest news and information from our clients. Click on the thumbnails to access high-resolution images (right-click to download).FKI Logistex® awarded contract by Posten Norge for postal industry’s first ‘green’ sortation system - (25-Nov-08)
- Industry: Logistics
- Client: FKI Logistex - www.fkilogistex.com
Key Facts• First mail centre to commission ‘green’ sortation system
• LS-4000CB sorter cuts energy costs by up to 75% and handles up to 10,000 items per hour
• Fully automatic system creates safer working environment for employees
• Reinforces FKI Logistex’ position as a leading global provider of mail-handling systems
FKI Logistex® – a leading global supplier of automated material handling systems – has been awarded a contract as the supplier and project integrator of a new energy-efficient sortation/distribution system for Posten Norge’s new Østlandsterminalen mail centre near Oslo, Norway. Due to be handed over in spring 2010, the complete Automatic Tray Handling System can sort more than 10,000 mail trays an hour and sets a new benchmark for short-flow, high-accuracy mail handling, as well as creating a safer working environment for employees.
Posten Norge is the first mail centre to install the highly energy-efficient LS-4000CB Cross-Belt sorter as part of an automatic tray-handling process. Designed by FKI Logistex, the LS4000CB introduces the next generation of sorter technology. It includes a new motor technology that boosts energy efficiency from a typical industry average of 15 to 20 percent, up to a new high of 60 to 75 percent. In addition, the new sorter provides significant improvements in operating efficiency and significantly reduces the Health & Safety risks which are inherent in manual systems.
The Automatic Tray Handling System (ATHS) integrates a fully-automatic dynamic storage and conveyor system. This will link all of the receiving, preparation, letter, flats and rest mail process handling and despatch areas, as well as providing a dynamic storage system for mail trays prior to the delivery to the FKI Logistex robotic palletizing system. The complete installation will be managed by control software written and implemented by FKI Logistex.
As Norway’s largest employer, Posten Norge has more than 4,750 routes and serves 2.7 million households and companies throughout Norway. According to Finn Hungnes, Posten Norge Director, Production; “The new system will help Posten Norge to minimise health and safety risks by significantly reducing manual handling. In addition, by switching to a fully-automated system, staff relations will be strengthened by freeing operators to take on more challenging multi-task roles”
Kim Nyborg Carlsen, FKI Logistex Director, Post & Parcel, added; “This new contract is an extension of a long-term partnership between FKI Logistex and Posten Norge and further reinforces FKI Logistex’ stature as a leading global supplier of advanced mail and parcel handling systems.”
As one of the first companies to introduce tray-handling systems to the European market, FKI Logistex designed and installed the innovative system in the Mail Centre in Vienna (BZO Wien). Recognised as state-of-the-art in mail-handling efficiency, the centre is visited by staff from mail centres around the world. FKI Logistex have also installed versions of the tray-handling system in seven Royal Mail sites in the UK and in several large-scale centres for the US Postal Service.
Note to Editors
Conventional high-speed sortation systems for post and parcel operations use linear induction motors (LIM) as their drive technology, but the LS-4000 systems introduce new linear synchronous motors (LSM), which are the next-generation development of LIM technology.
The actual power consumed by a sortation system is dependent on sorter length, speed and changes in level, as well as on the average load per tray. For example, the power consumption of a 300 metre horizontal sorter with 800 mm cart pitch travelling at 2.0 meters per second and carrying an average load per tray of 10 kg will typically be 16.4 kW. Assuming 14 hours of operation per day on 300 days per year, this would give an annual energy consumption of 68.9 MWh.
The power consumption for a similar system configuration incorporating the LS-4000E sorter with linear synchronous motors (LSM) would be just 3.9 kW. The total annual energy consumption would therefore be reduced to just 16.4 MWh, or less than one quarter of the consumption of the same configuration using a conventional motor.
About FKI Logistex
FKI Logistex is a leading global provider of automated material handling solutions, supplying customers with an integrated set of leading-edge technologies in high-speed sortation, conveyor systems, robotic and conventional palletising, paperless pick products, AS/RS, controls, order fulfillment systems, RFID implementation, EDS integration, baggage handling systems, warehouse control systems, and total material handling automation.
The company provides material handling solutions for airports, postal facilities, parcel distribution, manufacturing operations, library automation and for warehouse and distribution facilities. With projects that include many of the world's largest and most advanced material handling operations, FKI Logistex has manufacturing, engineering and support facilities around the world.
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