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Carter Holt Harvey to employ 'GoldenEye' at its Lakeside Plant |
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January 2010
We are greatly honoured to be selected by Carter Holt Harvey, the largest player in the softwood market in Australasia, for their first non-contact Grade Scanning System.
Acora Reneco and Microtec will install the complete system at CHH’s Lakeside Drymill during the first quarter of 2010.
The System comprises multi sensor scanners including X ray, Laser Scattering, Line Laser and Colour Camera to give unequalled vision of the board’s characteristics at up to 4,000 scans per second. Boards will be coded and tracked through Microtec’s proprietary vibration analysis system that measures the board’s natural frequency without microphones, to determine MOE.
The system will run at up to 700 metres per minute (or 120 pieces per minute) and will offer CHH’s customers the highest consistency and accuracy in grade sorting available anywhere in the world.
Microtec are supplying the scanners and controls and Acora Reneco the handling systems, installation and project management.
The CHH decision followed its viewing of similar systems in Europe and the GoldenEye installation at AKD’s Colac plant.
AKD have subsequently purchased and installed a second system including a dual chop saw line complete with sorting control via Microtec’s VarioSort system. This AKD line also includes the revolutionary M3Scan moisture system, which accurately detects moisture content independent of board density.
For more information on GoldenEye please contact us or click on 'Microtec' on the top left of this page.
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Highland Pine adds Automatic Treatment Line |
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Highland Pine Products (HPP) in Oberon have requested Acora Reneco to supply a completely new automated line to allow them to treat their dried timber on line and on demand.
HPP and Acora together developed the concept of this fully flexible system that will allow HPP to select ‘on the run’ which packs of timber will go for treatment.
The process allows the dry sorter operator to select a pack for treatment and the whole pack is then diverted to the treatment line, singulated, even ended and then fed piece by piece at up to 100 pieces per minute through the transverse spray unit.
The spray booth will apply Osmose DeterMITE, termite protection coating onto all timber passing through this line.
The advantages of this system are that individual pieces are sprayed while they are carried through the spray booth on sharp top chains, so that all parts of the piece are treated.
The total system comprises a bundle transfer trolley, surge decks, unscrambler, Tong Dog lug loader, spray booth system, course divider, stacker and automatic lathe placer.
Finished treated packs are then fed into the existing strapping line and taken to storage ready for despatch to the client. |
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We are pleased to welcome Philipp Schrott, from Microtec in Italy into our Melbourne office, to offer technical support service for our growing Microtec equipment lines in Australia and New Zealand.
Philipp served his apprenticeship as an Information Technology specialist in Brixen, Italy and before coming to Australia he worked for Microtec as a Systems Administrator. He has technical experience in Programming Languages, Windows and Linux platforms and PLC programming. Philipp also holds certificates in Cisco CCNA 1 Networking Basics, Cisco CCNA 2 Router and Routing Basics and an Electronic Computer Driving Licence.
With the growing list of customers and products in service in Australia, Philipp will be busy both assisting with installations and in the service of existing equipment.
We now have 3 GoldenEye grading systems, 2 ViScan strength grading systems, 3 edger optimisers and 2 VarioSort sorter/stacker control systems running in Australasia with more systems on order.
Microtec as a partner, with its commitment to Research and Development, as well as total dedication to its customer base world wide, is an exciting development for Acora Reneco. We have worked together for over 3 years now and the systems integration works really well, with Acora Reneco building the handling equipment, project managing and installing side by side with Microtec, the 2 companies compliment each other extremely well.
Philipp can be contacted on 0457 791 591 or
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