Keeping pace with fashion

European Conveyor Systems has played a part in a £2.5m project to expand warehousing facilities for fashion retailer Boden in Leicester.

Extra capacity has been achieved by linking two buildings with a two-way conveyor in a 90m long covered bridge and installing racking and conveyors to reduce walking time for staff.

The system installed by ECS carries cardboard cartons and plastic tote boxes of up to 20kg from the goods-in reception area to specified storage locations and onward to picking areas in both buildings, as determined by barcodes that are read by automatic scanners at transfer routing points. The conveyor system includes zero-pressure accumulation sections at transfers and barcode reader points that allow boxes to queue without touching.