EuroWire January 2007

handling & packaging equipment

You can count on Pentre

Pentre Group, incorporating Hearl Heaton design, manufactures and supplies a comprehensive range of high speed steel and plastic ABS process reels, plywood, and cardboard reels, wholly moulded plastic spools, steel and wooden – shipping reels and drums – equipment for the offshore industry. Hearl Heaton, with more than 40 years’ experience, manufactures ABS (plastic flanged) high speed process reels for the wire, cable, telecommunication and fibre optic industries. Quality and high specification can be guaranteed, by the use of certified materials, which include a special grade of virgin ABS for the flanges, specially selected to give maximum strength without brittleness. The remaining parts are manufactured in automated machinery to produce an accurate and precise reel with a range from 250mm-1,000mm diameter, conforming to both DIN 46395 and imperial standards for optical fibre tubing.

A whole range of reels from Pentre

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Pentre’s whole operation is focused on developing technically advanced processing solutions for today’s new modern and high-speed wire and cable manufacturing plants, including the latest robotic handling systems. Pentre’s reels and drums can be manufactured to either

international recognised standards or to customers’ own specific requirements. Pentre Group – UK Fax : +44 1924 400 803

Email : info@hearlheaton.co.uk Website : www.pentregroup.com

Advanced robotic handling system

T he MGS Group (whose member companies include MGS Manufacturing, Hall Industries, and Northampton Machinery) manufactures a technologically advanced robotic handling system. The ReelBOT robotic automatic combination de- palletising and palletising system uses a robotic jib style arm or gantry crane for de-palletising and palletising.

One pallet of empty reels is positioned behind the entry conveyor and one empty pallet is positioned behind the exit conveyor. The PLC directs

MGS Group’s ReelBot robotic handling system

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the three-axis picking device, ReelBot, to remove empty reels from the pallet and load them onto the entrance conveyor, and to remove full reels from the exit conveyor and load them in a programmable pattern onto a pallet. A recipe system stores the pallet patterns. One gantry crane is capable of servicing two fully automatic take-ups on line with two jacketing lines. The MGS Group – USA Fax : +1 315 337 4502 Email : sales@mgshall.com • Website : www.mgshall.com

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EuroWire – January 2007