During Thomas Hardy’s recent upgrade to the end of line packaging system at their Kendal site, where a new shrinkwrapper was installed, there was a requirement to modify the bottle conveyors feeding the new machine.

As a contract packer, the company’s requirement to handle a wide range of bottles and packaging formats had resulted in the new shrinkwrapper occupying a lot of floor space.

With the compact nature of the bottling line posing a challenge to installation changes, Walsall Engineering designed and installed a new bottle conveying system, from the labeller discharge to the infeed of the shrinkwrapper, with a bottle recirculation at the heart of it. This provided a compact bottle accumulation solution.