H+H Herrmann + Hieber GmbH

Amcor Singen entrusts H+H with modifications to the heavy-load conveyor system

Contract announcement, October 2011. Amcor, one of the world’s leading companies in the packaging industry (with 35,000 employees at around 300 sites in 43 countries) has been a customer of H+H Herrmann + Hieber for many years. At the thin-strip centre of the company’s plant in Singen (Amcor Singen Packaging), where transport units weighing up to 18 tonnes have to be carried and handled, H+H has now been entrusted to implement modifications.

Amcor designs packaging from all the usual materials: plastics, me3tals, glass and others. The company’s internal logistics are largely automated. Following the strengthening of the automatic material transport to be able to take loads of up to a maximum of 17.5 tonnes in the first half of this year, now additional measures are required because of further weight increases.

The transport units (in each case six aluminium coils with their racks) now weighing up to 18 tonnes are transported reliably at Amcor with the help of a heavy-load mobile truck and correspondingly designed chain conveyors. A critical point in this was found to be the transfer between the automatic conveyor units. This is now being redesigned.

To avoid interfering with operations in progress, the assembly work will be carried out at weekends when no production is taking place. The time scale is short, since reconstruction must be completed in November this year.