H+H Herrmann + Hieber GmbH

H+H to supply automatic coil transport for Constantia Teich

Contract announcement, October 2011. The company Constantia Teich AG is planning to install a new lacquering plant for aluminium strip material. The lacquering plant is to be fed directly from the new coil store by means of a fully automatic conveyor stretch. The contract for the fully automatic tot equipment has been awarded to H+H.

Constantia Teich GmbH, located in Weinburg 60 km west of Vienna, employs around 900 people and is a leading company of Constantia Flexibles. The company is an internationally leading supplier of flexible packaging materials made from aluminium, paper and plastics. Constantia Flexibles is provided with foil from its own aluminium rolling plant with a fully automatic material transport system and high-rise shelf store.

For the creation of a new lacquering unit modifications, rebuilding work and dismantling of existing plant have to be carried out. The new coil transport system between the store and lacquering buildings (a distance of around 65 metres) passes across the plant’s internal road and so has to be designed as a high-level stretch. In this case therefore, the sensitive aluminium foil must be protected against weather influences during transport.

The cycle time for the system as a whole is designed so that every hour at least 20 into-store or from-store operations can be carried out. Transport takes place with the help of load carriers, each for 4 coils with a total weight of around 16 tonnes. A special transport mechanism will be designed and built for the return transport of the bars needed for transporting the coils.

The new lacquering plant is now being built. The construction of the automatic coil transport system will begin in the spring of 2012. If the prescribed maintenance intervals for the conveyor technology and manipulators are adhered to, H+H guarantees an overall plant availability of 98.5 percent.