December 2011 - EXHIBITIONS 2012 & 2013

UPM Conveyors will be exhibiting at the following exhibitions in 2012 and 2013:

29/02/2012 - 01/03/2012 Packtech 2012 at NEC, Birmingham - Visit Website
25/03/2012 - 27/03/2012 Foodex 2012 at NEC, Birmingham - Visit Website
25/09/2012 - 27/09/2012 PPMA 2012 at NEC, Birmingham - Visit Website
21/05/2013 - 23/05/2013 The Total Processing & Packaging Exhibition at NEC, Birmingham - Visit Website
02/07/2013 - 03/07/2013 Meatup at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire - Visit Website

December 2011 - UPM CONVEYORS INVEST IN THE FUTURE

UPM Conveyors have invested circa £50k in 3D mechanical solid modelling design software for creating 3D digital prototypes using the design visualisation and simulation of products.

This will benefit their customers in being able to visualise the proposed solution for a product handling application as the image can be rotated through 360 degrees so eliminating any risk of the system not interfacing to existing equipment and being accommodated within the allocated production area.

The new software includes assembly stress analysis allowing UPM Conveyors input driving loads; friction characteristics and dynamic components then to run dynamic simulation tests to see how a product would work under real world conditions. The picture shown illustrates a Pepper Grader being manufactured for Thanet Earth who are based on the Isle of Thanet in Kent and boast the largest most high-tech greenhouse complex in the UK with enough glass to cover 80 football pitches for growing tomatoes; peppers and cucumbers with exceptional green credentials and as part of a continuous efficiency improvement programme consulted UPM Conveyors to automate the grading of Peppers at a rate of 3 tonnes per hour.

UPM claim to be the market leader for product handling solutions endorsed by the Queens Award for Innovation

June 2011 - FULL AUTOMATION FROM UPM CONVEYORS

McCormick (UK) Ltd based in Haddenham Aylesbury is the global leader in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of spices, seasonings and flavours to the entire food industry and consulted UPM Conveyors for their latest new product handling project based on a total solution involving each stage of production through bag filling to final boxing and palletising.

The specification required UPM to design, programme and build a PLC control to fully automate the interface from the bag filler through to the Jacob White case erector/sealer which involved transporting filled bags at a rate of 30 per minute through a 90' bend to a reject station incorporating a specially designed air knife to gently transfer product to a holding area should there be a problem with the case sealer erector alternatively via a bag equaliser station to a double acting pneumatic gate system ensuring each bag is transferred in the correct alignment for boxing.

The out feed collates full boxes and stacks them in packs of 5 for insertion into an outer case prior to palletising.

Frank Hentschel of McCormick praised UPM Conveyors for their innovation and complying with the 8 week lead time for the complete system to be in operation which was performed with minimal disruption and is operating trouble free 24/7.

May 2011 - UPM CONVEYORS KEEP YOU MOVING

UPM will be exhibiting at MEAT UP - Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, 21 & 22 June 2011.

UPM Conveyors Keep You Moving - Article [PDF]