Europe’s leader in second-life household disposable, CeDo, is achieving turnaround rates of 1000 containers a year at its automated goods handling and container destuffing facility in Telford.
The new plant is also nearing its 50,000th pallet milestone there. The new CeDo Ltd facility in Telford co-ordinates and redistributes CeDo’s international products to CeDo customers in the UK and in Ireland.
Newly appointed Group Chief Executive David Pearce says that ‘our investment in this technology and its staffing has fully justified itself in terms of the added value we have been able to give to our customers from our Telford facility.’
The heart of the system is an extendable conveyer, connected to an overhead conveyer with capacity to move some thirty boxes per minute. Other elements of the investment include a pallet positioning system, packaging table, and autowrapper.
The process starts with an extendable conveyor which extends into the back of the container. This allows the operator to load up the boxes and then transported them along a series of high and low driven conveyors, to a ‘U’ shaped unloading platform. This configuration of equipment allows the operators to work in a safe and efficient area, and to build each individual pallet into there specific customer requirement.
CeDo Ltd’s system is typically worked by a total of five operators and allows three 40 foot containers to be unloaded and wrapped within a single ten hour shift; handling around 1500 cartons per hour.
The container unloading system was designed and installed by CSL Conveyors and Systems Ltd. The auto wrapping stretchwrap machine and positioning conveyor were supplied and installed by MJ Maillis.
Pearce adds that ‘we have learned a great deal in bedding down this equipment and these kinds of working practices and are now able to consider rolling out the technology as appropriate to our CeDo Group worldwide. The whole project is a good indicator of the new face of CeDo since our purchase by Rutland Partners last summer.’
For further details of the full CeDo product range and packaging technology, contact Ian Tonks or David Brookes at CeDo Ltd. www.cedo.com Tel 01952 272 727
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Notes for the Editor
CeDo is Europe’s market leader in second-life household disposables and is owned by Rutland Partners. CeDo employs over 2000 people worldwide, with sales of over 227 million Euros in 2007.
CeDo supplies a wide range of products in primarily own label but supports retailers and New Product Development with brands such as Nappy Sacks, Landsaver and Poly-Lina. Leading CeDo customers include Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Morrisons, ASDA Wal-Mart, Carrefour and Wilkinson.
The CeDo portfolio includes: bin liners and refuse sacks; food, freezer and sandwich bags; cling films, biodegradable bags; fragrant nappy sacks and pet poop bags, cleaning cloths, aluminium foils and cooking papers.
CeDo operates manufacturing plants in the UK, Poland, Netherlands and China with further sales offices in Germany, Russia and France. All CeDo enterprises, worldwide, are run to strict environmental, social, hygiene and quality codes of practice, all are covered by BRC accreditation and have quality systems in line with ISO 9001 and are compliant with SA8000 and ILO convention.
CeDo is one of Europe’s leading recyclers of agricultural film, collecting silage waste from the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe and recycling the film at the companies recently upgraded facility in Geleen, The Netherlands. In 2007 some 40,000 tonnes of film was recycled in this way with some 22,000 tonnes of film recovered for use in the refuse sack sector. The collection and recycling system now has full lot traceability to EN15343 standard, which CeDo are currently the only recycling plant to have attained this European Norm.
CeDo’s investment into continuous research generates innovative ideas which are converted into product concepts by specialist teams skilled in material, manufacturing and product design and this ensures that CeDo has a portfolio which fulfils consumer needs in all the markets they serve.
For further details of the full CeDo product range and packaging technology, contact Ian Tonks or David Brookes at CeDo Ltd. www.cedo.com Tel 01952 272 727
