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Northumberland Dairy
Empty Case Handling System Case Study
Northumberland Dairy in New Brunswick, Canada, recently expanded their modern processing facility, making room for additional capacity and installing an automated Empty Case Handling System from Westfalia’s Deam Systems division. Founded in 1942, Northumberland Dairy has shown their commitment to consistently achieve and exceed the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s plant standards. The new Empty Case Handling System from Westfalia Deam Systems is just another reflection of this commitment.
Difficulties were arising from Northumberland’s manual depalletizing operations where the Top-Out Destacking system was too slow to accommodate their rising demand, and the case washing system was old and inefficient. Westfalia Deam’s Empty Case Handling solution includes a Case Stack Depalletizer, Stack Conveyors with 3 to 1 merging, a Bottom-Out Destacker, and wheel drives transferring cases overhead to a new Case Washer. Clean cases are then color sorted with a Westfalia Case Reject system, and accepted cases then transported to production on new cable conveyor system supplied by Westfalia.
System Features:
- Empty Case Stack Depalletizer with full pallet clamp & lift technology
- Case Stack Conveyor & Case Conveyor
- Empty Case Destacker operating speed of 60 cases/minute
- Empty Case Push & Up-Chute to Case Washer
- Case Reject Pusher & Conveyor
- All stainless steel construction
As Northumberland’s Dairy Plant Director, Randy Guimond, explains, “Northumberland chose Westfalia’s Depalletizing system based on the performance of equipment previously purchased from Westfalia (Caser, Case Stacker & Caser Head), and on the genuine interest Westfalia showed towards designing a system that would meet all our requirements. We were particularly impressed with the fact that Westfalia chose to send three representatives to our facility for supervision of installation and commissioning. It’s not unheard of for manufacturers to leave customers hanging near the end of a project, but Westfalia saw it through to completion and still provide support and advice, as required. Overall, we are very pleased with the design, quality of work and professionalism demonstrated.”
Constructed throughout of stainless steel, the entire system is suitable for wash-down, as is typical in dairy or beverage production. Northumberland operates with 16 quart plastic dairy cases on a 40” x 40” pallets. (Westfalia also offers the Empty Case Handling System for 24 quart plastic dairy cases on 40” x 48” pallets).
Download entire Northumberland Dairy Empty Case Handling System Case Study here.
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