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BWI wins contract to supply Quinn Glass

16 September 1998: UK-based BWI Plc has won a major order for conveyor systems and vision inspection machinery from Quinn Glass. Sister companies BWI Dawson and BWI Inex Divisions are to equip Quinn …

16 September 1998: UK-based BWI Plc has won a major order for conveyor systems and vision inspection machinery from Quinn Glass. Sister companies BWI Dawson and BWI Inex Divisions are to equip Quinn Glass“s new glass container manufacturing plant in Northern Ireland with eight fully automated bottle, cullet and vision inspection systems for the factory“s cold end. The contract to supply and install the equipment is worth around UK 4 million, BWI said. Currently under construction on a greenfield site in Derrylin, County Fermanagh, the plant has already commenced production with two lines. The remaining six lines will be in production by early 1999. The plant will be the largest glass manufacturing facility in Ireland. According to BWI, the conveyor systems for the Quinn Glass plant are designed and manufactured in stainless steel by BWI Dawson, based in Norfolk, South East England, to provide maximum operating efficiency with minimum maintenance. Each twin line will transport a variety of containers at up to 600 bpm from eight annealing lehrs through a number of inspection processes to the end-of-line palletizing. BWI Dawson is also responsible for the supply and installation of the cold end line control, software design, panels and wiring. BWI Inex, a specialist in the field of automated inspection for consumer products packaging, is supplying vision inspection equipment for all eight production lines in the new plant. This will include 16 of the company“s new Super Inspector 2 sidewall inspection units and 16 Superscan systems with line over finish and overpress capability. The Superscan has, claims BWI Inex, become the industry standard for top and base inspection.

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