A major turnkey contract signed in 1995 between UK company Kensal Ltd. and Rockware Glass, called for the supply to Rockware Glass by Kensal of 4 cold-end inspection lines. It has been announced that …
A major turnkey contract signed in 1995 between UK company Kensal Ltd. and Rockware Glass, called for the supply to Rockware Glass by Kensal of 4 cold-end inspection lines. It has been announced that the final two lines were completed in May of this year. Kensal stated that the first 2 lines were designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned by the company towards the end of 1995 and necessitated extremely demanding site deadlines. In a specifically allocated period, one line was cleared of all redundant and obsolete equipment in only 4 hours. This was then immediately followed by the installation of a completely new conveying and inspection system within 24 hours. The second line was installed in 48 hours due to engineering work carried out by other contractors on the annealing lehr. Kensal said that together with the engineering support of Rockware Glass, its project management resources and team of on-site engineers and technicians met the challenging schedule successfully within the time-frames set by Rockware Glass, which provided expertise for the line layouts, inspection equipment installation and line control philosophy, from both their Doncaster Cold End Engineering Department and the Project Engineering Department based at the Technical Centre of the Knottingley Head Office. Kensal also said that each line has the ability to convey an extensive range of glass containers for the food and drink industry in various shapes, sizes and at varying speeds, to the very latest state-of-the-art testing and inspection equipment, while maintaining the very high quality standards demanded of the glassware manufacturing industry. Extensive runs of straight and side-flexing stainless steel table-top chain conveying systems have been used throughout the 4 lines, in impressively conceived single and multi-track configurations. New belt conveyors running underneath the lines return all rejected containers and broken glass for recycling. Each line terminates with an automatic palletisation facility. Kensal also supplied and engineered all the electrical trunking and cable management systems, electrical control panels, computer software and hardware to run the installation at maximum efficiency.