April 2015 - Palamatic Innovations 1

InnovationsINFORMATION, NEWS AND SUPPORT

InterPhex EditionApril 2015

The PML500/25 has a 1100lb (500kg) capacity to transfer pallets of materials which have been made into a batch or an order of materials. The PML500/25 is equipped with touch sensors which go where the operator wants without having to press a button, flip a lever, or steer a traditional rudder. The operator does not even have to change their normal stride as the machine will go where the operator wishes and stop when the operator wants, also without having to press a brake, hit a button or reverse a paddle.

The drive unit is programmable to speeds of a fast walk right down to inching precision for delicate or high value tasks.

The PML500/25 drive is proven in rugged outdoor street environments and has a range of up to 10 miles between charges. Different wheels are available to suit the required environment.

The PML500/25 is equipped with a Palamatic Lite tube lifter to effortlessly lift parcels, packages, boxes, drums, or finished goods up to 55lb (25kg). The operator drives the PML500/25 to the station to pick a package and turns on the vacuum pump, the operator can then effortlessly pick the package and place onto the pallet. The vacuum pump is then turned off and the operator drives to the next picking point.

Effortless order picking in warehouse & distribution centres

The PML500/25 has been designed to address health and safety concerns of the workforce in distribution and logistics centres. Further options are available on request.

FEATURES OF THE UNIT • Innovative drive system

• Compact footprint

• Low maintenance sealed drive and battery system

• Single phase electricity charger

• Flexible options for picking different types of package

• Different weight capacities BENEFITS TO THE CUSTOMER• Simple for the operator to use • Requires only 5 minutes of training

• Can be used in narrow aisles

• Turns 360 degrees within its own footprint

• Easy manoeuvrability

• Full charge takes approximately 8 hours

• Different objects up to 55lb (25kg) can be lifted by any operator - different weight capacities are available

• Full pallets up to 1100lb (500kg) can be transported by any operator effortlesslycan be transported by any operator effortlessly

Investment in process machinery can be realized swiftly when combined with the right Materials Handling Solution.

The Palamatic Move&Lift (PML500/25) has been designed to assist the operator assemble batches or order pick in warehouse and distribution centres with effortless ease making light work of heavy everyday tasks.

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US ENQUIRIES

SUE BINGLEY919-779-0988888-922-1119

sue.bingley@palamatic.com

FRANSCISCO CHACON919-779-0988888-922-1119

franscisco.chacon@palamatic.com

INTERNATIONAL ENQUIRIES

PALAMATIC LTDCONBAR WOOD CLOSE, CHESTERFIELD, S41 9RQ

UNITED KINGDOM

Call: +44 (0)1246 452 054EMAIL: sales@palamatic.com

PALAMATIC INC

US OFFICE595 OLD DRUG STORE ROAD, GARNER, NC 27529

Call: 919-779-0988Toll free: 888-922-1119

EMAIL: sales@palamatic.com

COMPANY INFO

CONTACT

In this issue

1 PALPHARMA MOVE & LIFT 500/24 cGMP materials handling solutions that can be relied upon.

2 30 YEARS OF PALAMATIC Founder Stuart Bennison takes a

nostalic look at the Palamatic roots

3 PALPHARMA AUTO SACKTIP Introducing PalPharma’s unique Auto Sacktip range.

4 EMPLOYEE FOCUS Francisco Chacon -

Sales & Support Engineer.

Palamatic was formed in the UK in 1985 by founder directors Sue and Stewart Bennison. The company’s original product line was sack opening machines. Palamatic’s first orders for sack openers came from the USA.

IF you didn’t know Palamatic is 30 years old. A word from the founders…

In 1985 Stewart travelled to Sweden to sign a contract to sell vacuum tube lifters and displayed the equipment at Conveyorex in Harrogate that year resulting in 250 enquiries and orders within a month. The introduction of vacuum tube lifting into the UK was a pivotal event for Palamatic ensuring rapid growth from year one of the business.

Palamatic soon were developing new end effectors for the range as the original manufacturer did not sell bespoke lifting solutions and also pioneered the use of double, triple and quadruple lift tube systems to increase the capacity of load that the lifters could deal with. Development of higher capacity lift tubes has now reduced the need for these.

Originally the business ran from a home office with assembly of product based in a factory unit in Yorkshire but soon took on rented units on the Derbyshire Trading Estate as business expanded.

With the help of a European Grant Palamatic invested in its own premises in 1992 on the same Industrial Estate and built the first Palamatic robotic system for Dupont, Belgium in the new premises.

The lifter marketplace has grown extensively since the introduction of vacuum tube lifting to the UK back in 1985 and the Palamatic brand still leads

the way with innovation at the forefront. This extensive range of handling solutions still gives Palamatic its highest level of sales from many industries including woodworking, food, agro-chemicals, paint, white goods and the oil industry.

Since 1999 the PalPharma Handling Solutions division has offered a unique line of cGMP material handling equipment specifically designed for the Pharmaceutical, Healthcare and Fine Chemical Industries. The Pharmaceutical line of equipment was introduced to complement Palamatic’s general material handling equipment line and includes:PalPharmaMove, PalPharmaTip, PalPharmaVac, PalPharmAssist, PalPharMassage, PalPharmaBin and the PalPharmaBlend.

For Palamatic’s new Trading year starting April the main focus will be on developing the marketplace in the USA with Francisco Chacon moving out to join the team at Palamatic USA Inc in North Carolina to act as Technical Sales Support for our valued customers and distributors.

“It’s been a very interesting and enjoyable 30 years for Palamatic and we are very proud to reflect on the past three decades, our extensive product ranges and also all our employees and what we have achieved together.” Stewart Bennison - Chairman

Client dinner, Chicargo May 1996

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The benefit to industry of this unique machine design is within the principle of operation which allows the machine to be offered in three configurations – The AST 600-4 fully automatic operation, the ESAST 600-2 an enclosed unit incorporating operator control and Glove Ports and the SAST 600-2 operator controlled Semi Automatic Sack Tip.

Each option utilises the same cutting and shaking action. On all the machines the product discharge shaking time can be pre-determined with the automatic machine having a secondary shaking cycle inbuilt. The Enclosed Sack Tip and the Semi Automatic machine have the facility for operator to manually shake the sacks in a secondary discharge process.

A unique design feature of this complete range of machines employs a simple operator process allowing the majority of internal machine components to be removed for cleaning so in industries such as Food and Dairy on products such as milk powder and infant formula, or Pharmaceuticals the issue of cross contamination of product is controlled.

The Auto Sack Tip 600-4 – (AST 600 – 4) maximum throughput 4 sacks per minute with an emptying efficiency of 99.95% (dependant on nature and flow of product)

• The AST 600-4 runs on a completely automatic cycle responding to a sack entering the infeed , cuts the sack, discharges the product and ejects the sack material

• The AST 600-4 is pneumatically powered and can be supplied as a fully pneumatically controlled machine making it highly suitable for the most arduous ATEX/Hazardous environments. It can also be supplied with an electrical control system

• Optional infeed conveyors can be supplied with the machine, from gravity roller bed type to a Horizontal or Inclined powered belt type

• Optional Outfeed Empty Sack Collection systems are available, from a basic sack collection bin with Polythene inner liner to a pneumatically powered Ram-compactor unit or a Screw compactor unit with extruding polythene sack collection system

• For maximum dust management an integral dust extraction unit can be fitted or a simple dust extraction spigot to connect to customer’s own plant dust extraction system

• Optional finishes for this machine are: - mild steel powder coated - 304 st st mill finish with continuous welds

Introducing PalPharma’s unique Auto Sacktip range

ground smooth- 316 st st finished to 180 or 240 grit continuous welds ground smooth and polished

• Optional product outlet types available are gravity or vibratory chute, screw/flexi screw conveyors, aero-mechanical conveyors or vacuum transfer conveyors. All options are configured to suit customer needs.

The Enclosed Semi-Automatic Sack Tip – (ESAST-600-2)maximum throughput 2 sacks per minute with an emptying efficiency of 99.95% (dependant on nature and flow of product and operator work-rate)

In this second option the machine is offered with Glove-ports allowing the operator to control the final emptying and discharge process.

The sack is fed into the ESAST-600-2 machine through the inlet hatch and when it is in place the operator can control the cut and shake of the sack by depressing dual safety interlocked control buttons to initiate these operations. When the control buttons are released the machine process stops and the operator may access the machine via the Glove ports to give the sack a further shake to discharge maximum product and then post the emptied sack into the sack outlet collection unit.

This configurations of machine offers all the same options as the AST 600-4 on infeed, outfeed, empty sack outlet, dust extraction, machine finishes, unique cleanability facility and control options

The Semi-Automatic Sack Tip – SAST-600-4 maximum throughput 4 sacks per minute with an emptying efficiency of 99.95% (dependant on nature and flow of product and operator work-rate)

In this option of machine configuration the cutting and product discharge operations are again controlled via the operator using the safety interlocked control buttons. On release of the two buttons the SAST-600-4 machine process stops to allow the operator to access the machine through the infeed hatch (or side access door) and handle the sack to shake and further discharge product and post the emptied sack into the sack outlet collection unit.Again this configurations of machine offers all the same options as the AST 600-2-4 on infeed, outfeed, empty sack outlet, dust extraction, machine finishes , unique cleanability facility and control options

This range of machines has been designed to fit in the same neat footprint of a typical Sack Tip unit.

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Francisco joined Palamatic in May 2014, before joining us he worked for our Venezuelan distributor Ametrade. With a degree in Industrial Engineering Francisco spent 3 months on our factory floor learning the manufacturing processes that are used by all 3 of our divisions. More recently Francisco has been supporting the internal sales teams and developing key relationships with our partners in the Americas.

He is very much looking forward to the challenges ahead and will be working alongside Sue Bingley supporting our dealers, master dealers, business partners and customers in the USA.

Francisco can be contacted at the US office:

PALAMATIC INC595 Old Drug Store Road, Garner, NC 27529Call: 919-779-0988Toll Free: 888-922-1119Mobile: 919 279 0236Email: sales@palamatic.com

The PalPharMassage has been developed to assist with the process infeed or tipping of powdered or granular product in drums which has hardened or settled in storage and transit.

PalPharMassage Drum Conditioning Systems

Employee Focus:

FRANCISCO CHACONSales & Support Engineer

USA

The PalPharMassage has been developed to assist with the process infeed or tipping of powdered or granular product in drums which has hardened or settled in storage and transit.

The PalPharMassage has been designed to be fully flexible around drums of all sizes, plastic and fibre. The drums sit on a rotary table so after each cycle the drum can be rotated. An adjustable back stop allows penetration depth of the cylinder into the drum to be adjusted to suit the material requirement. The PalPharMassage can be a simple mobile product conditioning solution or integrated into a turn key fully contained drum discharge solution withPLC control.

FEATURES OF THE UNIT

• Up to 661lb capacity

• cGMP construction with 304 or 316 options

available

• CE Label

• Atex options available for zone 1/21 2/22

T3, T4, T5 Class 1 Div 1/Group C+D

• FAT and IQ/OQ documentation

• Suitable for drums, kegs, boxes and

containers

BENEFITS TO THE CUSTOMER

• Simple for the operator to use

• Requires onlya clean dry compressed air

supply (unless PLC control is required)

• Adjustable cylinder height and backstop

options to suit a range of drums

• Can be used with PharmaVac/PharmaTIp

to offer turn key manual handling an drum

tipping solution

• Mobile or fixed

For further information visit us at: www.palpharma.com, call toll free on 888-922-1119 or speak to Sales & Support staff.