For several years, one of Denmark’s leading shipping and logistics companies, Shipping.dk has had a single packaging line for wood pellets at its premises in Køge outside Copenhagen. Now the capacity has been increased with another fully automatic packaging line from compatriot Fisker Skanderborg A/S (Fisker). This has been combined with the existing line, creating additional options in terms of the final packing of the pallets.
Shipping.dk offers bagging of goods in connection with their customers’ shipping activities. The company enables its customers to combine the advantages of sea transport with the possibility of preparing their products for distribution to the end-users. This activity is carried out at several packaging lines, where the customers’ products can be packed in bags in accordance with their individual needs.
‘Rolls Royce’ solution from Fisker
It is a popular service, and now the company increases its capacity for wood pellet packaging. The extension of the capacity took place in close collaboration with Fisker Skanderborg, who was responsible for developing, supplying, and installing the new line, in addition to adapting the existing line, such as replacing the roller conveyor when combining the two packaging lines.
We have known Fisker for many years, and they have an excellent reputation for offering ‘Rolls Royce’ solutions. That is why we chose to discuss the new packaging line with them, and together we identified the right solution said Nicolai Ravn, Managing Director of Shipping.dk.
Optimum logistics and increased flexibility
The complete packaging line from Fisker can thus handle the customers’ goods from the moment they are dumped by a loader until they are lying packed and ready on a pallet. The key component of the packaging line is a new F1000 Su&So continuous motion bagging machine from Essegi, which can pack up to about 1 500 bags an hour and also includes a palletising machine and a stretch hooding machine.
At the same time, we optimised the system’s logistics. In the future, Shipping.dk’s customers can choose whether the pallets should go through a stretch film wrapper or a stretch hooder, depending on what best suits their needs, said Peter M. Henningsen, Sales Manager at Fisker.
The new packaging line is now in operation and runs at a speed that exceeds expectations.
We had an excellent dialogue with employees from Fisker throughout the entire process. Installing a new packaging line that needs to be combined with an existing line, while minimising the number of days of production downtime, obviously presents some challenges. They were resolved to my entire satisfaction together with Fisker, who managed to keep track of everything from beginning to end, ended Nicolai Ravn.
