Spain’s national postal service provider Correos has awarded an order for automated systems at11 of its sorting centres to Vanderlande Industries.
The order is for the Dutch manufacturer’s POSISORTER systems, which offer high capacity sortingof over 10,000 parcels per hour of widely varying shapes and sizes. The order value was notdisclosed.
The automation projects are planned to be completed in two phases: a first phase for six centresto come into operation during 2011, followed by a second phase covering five centres to beoperational in 2012. There is also an option for later automation of a further two sorting centresusing the same systems, Vanderlande announced.
The POSISORTER provides positive sorting using diverter shoes that slide across the carriers andpush parcels gently into the output spurs in a diagonal movement. The system is available forsingle- or dual-sided sortation. The latest POSISORTER systems offer 20 percent better energyefficiency than their predecessors, as well as improved working conditions with a 3dB(A) lowernoise level, making them the quietest shoe sorter systems on the market, according to the Dutchfirm.
Each of the POSISORTER systems to be supplied to Correos is equipped with an infeed providedwith a labelling station, dynamic weighing scales, and an automated volume-measurement andtwo-sided barcode scanning station using machine vision cameras. The POSISORTER systems arecontrolled by the Vanderlande Industries’ Flow System Controller (FSC), which offers a highlyflexible, modular solution for equipment control in goods sorting, transport and handlingsystems.
