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AUTOMATION THROUGH INNOVATION

A LOCAL PARTNER WITH A GLOBAL REACHThe Premier Tech Chronos World

02 Tailored solution to bag bakery mixes02 Bagging equipment for Nippon Goshei03 PM5 ; Preventive maintenance04 Bagging innovation for cement mixes 06 Fairs and shows07 The world’s first automatic scale08 Complete integration systems

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March | 2004 | Issue 01

Dear Business Partners,

It has now been a year since Premier Tech acquired the international operations of Chronos Richardson. In addition tothis, we are also celebrating the second anniversary of theRichard Simon acquisition. The future of these two companiesis now part of an international operation spanning Europe, Asiaand the America with a vision of being “A local partner witha global reach”.

The past year has been a challenging and rewarding periodfor all of us at Premier Tech Chronos. The focus of all our actions has been “Customer Satisfaction” but also “re-engineeringof our business” in order to remain the outstanding supplierin our industry, in all markets and territories where we areinvolved. This major action was necessary in order to deploythe vision of our parent company, Premier Tech Packaging.This vision has the objective of having the new Premier TechChronos in close touch with its business partners and beinghighly flexible and responsive to the market needs.

We stress at the outset that Premier Tech Packaging’s acquisitions of Chronos Richardson and Richard Simon have

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been carried out for strategic rather than purely commercialreasons. Our commitment to improvements and expansionover the past years emphasizes this strategy and we are ontrack to become the world’s leading supplier of flexible packaging solutions. All of our teammates have approachedthe challenges with enthusiasm and determination to succeed.

Premier Tech Packaging has reinforced its commitment to bethe leader in all of its markets and territories with strong andthriving bases in Canada, Germany and Thailand. This is thecontinuation of the work that started 13 years ago with thecreation of our packaging group and that has seen us becomein such a short span of time an industry leader with an unmatched product portfolio. You can be sure that whileworking on the re-engineering, we keep the most importantpiece of the puzzle, our customers, in the forefront of our activities.

Thank you again for your long-standing support.

André Noreau, P. Eng.PresidentPremier Tech PackagingBusiness Area

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so here – powders,creating a lot of dustwhen being bagged therefore hardly flowing. The task presented to ChronosRichardson by Back-aldrin was to find a concept, fulfilling European HygieneStandards, creatingnearly no dust duringthe bagging processand being flexible in

regard to product change notonly with the bagging line but alsowith the palletiser. The palletiserwould have to identify the in-fedbags, being different in contentand size/weight and direct themto the respective pallet, whichalso could be of different material– wood or plastic. The systemalso needed to be capable of notonly filling open-mouth bags of

different sizes but also the BigBags. The latter should not beequipped with its own weigherbut should be connectable to thespouts of the bagging lines foropen-mouth bags. Finally the lowbuilding height needed also to be considered.

The tailored solution consisted ofthe well known CHRONO-FILL™PBS 500 Bottom-up-Bagging Linein one single-spout-version andone as a twin-spout-version whichwas selected to ensure purity ofthe bakery mixes and additivesby reducing the need to clean themachine.

Due to the alternate operation ofthe spouts, this goal wasachieved. Bag sealing is effectedby a DoBoy FTS HD sealing device. It first seals the in-linerwithin the bag, afterwards folds

the upper edge twice and finallyadheres a stick-over tape. Bothbagging lines operate in parallel.The filled and sealed bags are transported together via one single conveyor belt to the dualcompact palletiser, which incor-porates a bag lift and two palletisingtables currently fed by one singlebag magazine. As the bags enterthe palletiser, a scanner reads theEAN Code printed on them andthen assigns the bags to the correctpallet. In addition to the bagginglines, a movable Big-Bag-Line wasintegrated into the solution. Allthe equipment is PLC controlled.It goes without saying that thebagging lines meet the hygienicstandards DIN EN 1672 part 1and 2

Backaldrin is a well known familyowned company in Asten, Austria.

The business is focussed on developing and supplying bakerieswith bakery mixes and additives.The company extended its production capacity and thus wasin need of weighing, bagging andpalletising equiment. Bakerymixes are in most cases – and

Chronos Richardson has recently completed a major contract to supply afully automatic bag and box filling line forchemical giant Nippon Goshei.

The equipment has been installed at the company’s new 300 million Euros plasticresin plant located near Hull, England. The contract, which is worth over one millionEuros, was awarded to Chronos Richardsonby Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Company Limited, the main engineering contractor for the project.

Nippon Goshei has pioneered the processfor producing high quality, high density plastic resins and from its UK site it will supply customers all across Europe. Thisresin is mainly used as a high quality foodfilm in the rapidly expanding industry of readymeals market. Ironically, another major customer for the resin is also the manufacturerof the bags used to package the product !

Mitsui and Nippon Goshei set strict technicaland process parameters for this vital equipmentin terms of speed, accuracy, reliability and hygiene. The bagging line includes a belt-fed,high speed UBM weigher, automatic MK4bag placer and heat sealer, check-weigher,low level palletiser and shrink wrap equipment.The bagging line is capable of filling either20 or 25 kg bags at speeds up to 600bags an hour. Conservative engineering and design parameters ensure that critical components work well below their ultimatecapability, thereby providing long term reliability. When required, the product can bediverted to the second line, which can automatically fill octabins by multi-dumpingproduct from the weigher to achieve the larger 550 kg target weights. The octabinsare placed automatically onto pallets andthen presented one at a time to the fillingspout. When filled, evacuated and sealed,the box is conveyed away ready for a newone to take its place.

All critical contact parts are constructedfrom polished stainless steel to facilitate product line changes and ensure that thestrict hygiene requirements are met. Giventhe high value of the product, minimising‘giveaway’ whilst still maintaining accuratetarget weights is vital. The design features ofthe UBM weigher and controller optimisetarget weights and automatically compensatefor any minor changes as they occur. For25 kg bags, accuracies of ± 10 g are readilyachieved.Before installing the equipment on site,Chronos had to demonstrate its effective operation during in-house trials witnessed by senior engineers from both Mitsui andNippon Goshei.

BAGGING EQUIPMENT FOR NIPPON GOSHEI

TAILORED SOLUTION TO BAG BAKERY MIXES


INSIDE THE PACKAGING WORLD OF PREMIER TECH…Visual identification by territories

A new look at performance through preventive maintenance

The new industry “buzzword” seems to bePREVENTION all across the board as moreand more companies realize the importanceof preventive maintenance on their equipmentto minimize the possibilities of downtime.People used to call us in panic asking for a field service representative to jump on aplane ASAP to come in and fix the problems.We are undoubtedly facing these types ofsituations less frequently than in the pastdue to the simple fact that people are doingmore maintenance on a regular basis thanbefore. Premier Tech Chronos, a year ago,has initiated an innovative support andservice program called “PM5” (Preventivemaintenance 5) which offers various supportoptions and levels through long-term part-nerships with its customers. Depending onthe level of support the customers have

chosen, Premier Tech’s twenty-two fieldservice representatives (in North Americaand over 50 worldwide) may be asked tocome to site once, twice, three or even sixtimes in a twelve month period. The servicerepresentative will go through a thoroughexamination of the system following a complete module-by-module list of items toverify, all being recorded on paper. At theend of the visit, a complete recommendationsreport is provided to the customer for evaluation and actions to be undertaken (ifneeded).

Reacting VS Preventing – What are thecost differences between them ?

It is difficult to forecast the costs for reactingas opposed to Preventing. It will all depend

on the number of total hours of downtimeor if going to the extremes, the costs oflosing a customer because you could notdeliver an order within the expected time-frame. As your equipment gets older, prevention should become part of yourvocabulary or you will certainly experiencesome unwanted downtimes. Preventingalso means keeping a legitimate number ofspares on your shelves to cover most wearand tear items. Your equipment suppliershould be able to provide you with such alist.

Joining the PM5 program, our customersbenefit from yearly parts rebates, priorityfor on-site service and many other privileges.For further information, we invite you tovisit our web site at : WWW.PM-5.COM

DO YOU REACT OR PREVENT?


SATISFY THE DISTRIBUTORS ANDEND-USERS

When you are in the concrete industry and

your products are intended to the retail

market, it is not easy to meet distributors

and end-users expectations. Why ? Simply

because bags are covered by concrete

dust and inevitably the wholesaler displays

are dusty as well as the customers’ car

trunks.

In response to its customers demand,

Forwell Materials Inc./ Quikrete of Ontario,

an important North American producer of

concrete mixes, have been searching for a

way to provide its product in cleaner,

stronger esthetical plastic bags with gussetted

bottoms. “Our goal was to revolutionize our

approach to packaging concrete mix materials,

through efficiency, a total consumer marketing

strategy and be first to market.” Lisa

Forwell, President of Forwell Materials Inc.

“We wanted to package our products cleaner

for health and safety of our employees and

customers, more efficiently and cost effective.”

But how can we conciliate dusty products

with cleanliness, quality and estheticism to

preserve its partnership with its distributors

as well as its market share?

REACH EFFICIENCY IN DUSTYENVIRONMENT

Forwell Materials was looking for the

appropriate system to replace its two valve

packers which reached production rates of

18 BPM of 66 lb bags averaging up to

3lbs. of give-away product per bag. They

also wanted to move away from paper bags

because they would often tear and are still

extremely dusty. This project presented several

technical challenges with regards to the

dusty environment, type of product to handle

and the bag material. Sealing a plastic bag

in such dusty environment necessitated

some re-engineering work on the machinery’s

supplier’s side. It was obvious that the need

to find a bagging system which would be

efficient all while raising production rate

and minimizing give-away product was there.

A TOTAL INNOVATION IN THE CEMENTMIXES/CONCRETE INDUSTRY

The use of polyethylene bags for concrete

products is totally new to this industry. In

fact, it is not easy to bag a dusty product

at high temperature (140 - 170 degrees)

with heat-sealable polyethylene bags. The

reason is that poly bags must be strong

enough to take high product temperatures

and at the same time not be too thick to

disable the sealing process. After a long

research period with many suppliers,

Forwell Materials Inc. found the Premier

Tech Chronos FFS-200 Series Horizontal

Form, Fill and Seal Bagger which would

meet its specifications. This automatic

system makes its own bags from rolls of

polyethylene pre-printed center-folded film

(U-film).

RESPECT OF THE DELIVERY DATE

The original version of the FFS-200 has

been modified and adapted to the concrete

mixes application for this particular customer.

To conduct this project, a team of engineers

proceeded with different tests with the

product to ensure the efficiency of the system.

One important factor in the overall success

of the project was to respect the delivery

date of the equipment at customer site. To

do so, the engineering team doubled-up all

efforts to meet the pre-established tight

schedule for the equipment modification,

testing and manufacturing and make sure

that the installation would not affect the

Forwell Materials Inc. plant production.

Considering that the FFS-200 Series tech-

nology is well-known by Premier Tech

Chronos’ engineering team, it took only

2 weeks to make the installation and

commissioning of the system and meet/

exceed the customers expectations.

Although this is a totally new market and

application for this system, there are still a

few minor adjustments to complete before

this experience will be called a total success.

Both Forwell Materials Inc. and Premier

Tech Chronos are working hand in hand as

partners in this to revolutionize the industry

as a whole. “Premier Tech Chronos technical

support has been fantastic throughout this

design , installation and implementation

BAGGING INNOVATION FOR THE CEMENT MIXES / CONCRETE INDUSTRY

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process”, Lisa Forwell, all little glitches are

ironed out.

NEW SYSTEM, NEW BAGS AND QUICKINVESTMENT PAYBACK

In this specific case, the new equipment

allowed the producer to increase its

production rate up to 25 BPM with this

new system only one bagger. The weight of

each bag respects the original 66 lb per

bag but now the Premier Tech Chronos

UBM- 1100 Duplex Scale above the bagger

is achieving a precision of ± 1 oz (27 g) of

give-away product per unit which is a

tremendous improvement in weight consis-

tency. Only because of this accuracy

improvement, Forwell Materials Inc. gains

up to two complete pallets of filled bags at

the end of each production day. Also, the

Premier Tech Chronos FFS-200 Series

operates with a 40-inche roll capacity allowing

many hours of continuous operation.

Combined with accuracy of filled bags, higher

production as well as the cost for bag

materials (as opposed to paper valve bags),

this new system represents enormous

savings which will all contribute to a quicker

investment payback.

FULFILL ITS GOALS

Forwell Materials Inc., the family business

ownership of this concrete mixing plant

now fulfilled all of its goals ; preserving its

partnership with its distributors and satisfying

end-users, increasing its market share with

cleaner, stronger esthetical plastic bags

with gussetted bottom and first to market

in North America. Finally, they found the

best available technology on the North

American continent to answer their very

specific needs as well as the growing

demand by the end-users.

TIP : LOOK FOR ONE TRUE INTEGRATORAS OPPOSED TO MULTI-VENDORS

Complete integration, turnkey projects or

one single contact are all terms that have

become of great importance for all producers

in any industry. When a corporation gets

involved in bagging operations and focuses

on maximizing throughput therefore minimizing

production costs per unit, they should consider

an equipment supplier that can provide not

only the bagger, but the dosing (feeder/

scale), the bagging, all conveying, palletizing

and stretch wrapping systems as well. Only

a handful of suppliers do the complete

manufacturing and are able to integrate

entire bagging lines from A to Z. Premier

Tech Chronos, with installation worldwide,

can offer imperial designs as well as technical

support locally. For further details, please

visit:

www.premiertechchronos.com

Contacts:

Forwell Materials, Cambridge, ON

Lisa Forwell, P. Eng

President

(519) 743-3679

www.forwell.net

Premier Tech Chronos, Riviere-du-Loup, QC

Anthony Siblall

(418) 868-TECH (8324)

www.premiertechchronos.com

As published in Powder&Bulk Engineering, May 2003issue.


FROMDusty PaperValve Bag

TOCLEAN PLASTICU-FOLD FILM BAGS


UP COMING FAIRS & SHOWS

From May 19th to the 24th, the International Sales Crew of Chronos Richardson sat on booths G23 to G26 in hall 3.

This was the first official show in Germany after the acquisition of Chronos Richardson by Premier Tech. The booth layout was newly designed, new brochures were available and thesales team prepared to give the first feedback to the visitors regardingthe changes that had taken place during the previous five months.

Although the show was not as busy as it was in 2000, many regular customers came to discuss the changes that had takenplace. At the booth, a CHRONOS PAL™ PL 900C compact palletizerwas shown in operation. However, not only existing customers cameto see Chronos Richardson; also many new and very interestingcontacts were made, enabling us to demonstrate our capability andcommitment in our pursuit to find the right solution for all your bagging requirements.

Equipment supplied by PremierTech Chronos will soon be helpingthoroughbred horses get a goodnights sleep.

Nottinghamshire (UK) basedCreature Comforts, which wasset up less than three years agoby husband and wife team Jo andColin Bower, have taken deliveryof a VF volumetric feeder, EM-600baler and AP-200 palletizer aspart of their new 1.7 millionEuros processing plant for manu-facturing their acclaimed rangeof Alfalfa high performance feed

and dust free finebedding. The couplegrow and harvestthe high quality alfalfa on their 400hectares farm. Theyhave already built upan impressive clien-tele in the UK, Eire,

Middle East and Hong Kong, supplying leading owners andtrainers of thoroughbred horses, including the world famous Godolphin Stables. The new plantis capable of producing 700tonnes of bedding per week,equating to a throughput of fivebales per minute. The EM-600baler is designed for packagingcompressible bulk products andfinished bale compression ratioscan be as high as 3:1. The unitis fully automated and has an indexing turntable of four stations.The first two are used to fill the

compression tube and then compress the product to the desired compression ratio. Thethird station closes and seals thebags, while the final station transfersthe filled bag to the conveyor leading to the palletizer. The Premier Tech Chronos equipment

was chosen on the basis of efficiency, speed, price and support.As Jo Bower concludes : ‘This isa very important stage in thegrowth of our company. The factthat we can now process andpack the alfalfa products righthere on the farm gives us totalcontrol over our business. Premier Tech Chronos have beenextremely helpful and supportivethroughout the project and wecan now take on the world market with confidence.’

ALL YOUR CREATURES’ COMFORT

ACHEMA PARTICIPATION – First German show under new flag

International Powder & Bulk Solids Show

Victam

Pack Expo International

Total Processing &Packaging

Powder ProcessingBulk Handling

Animal/Feed

Packaging Industry

Processing, packaging& production

May04.-06. | 2004

May01.-13. | 2004

November07.-11. | 2004

March 29 - April 1 | 2004

Rosemont. ILUSA

Utrecht,Netherlands

Chicago. ILUSA

Birmingham,England

Exhibition/Symposium Focus Date Location


For representatives in other countries, please visit our websites.www.premiertechchronos.comemail: [email protected]

www.chronosrichardson.comemail: [email protected]


Premier Tech ChronosCorporate Office 1, avenue Premier, Rivière-du-Loup Quebec G5R 6C1 CanadaPhone +1 418 867 8883Fax +1 418 862 6642

Chronos Richardson GmbHReutherstraße 3D-53773 HennefGermanyPhone +49 2242 883 - 0Fax +49 2242 883 - 186

Chronos Richardson LimitedArnside Road, Bestwood Nottingham NG5 5HD, UKPhone +44 115 935 1351Fax +44 115 960 6941

Chronos Richardson SALe parc de Viry, 14, rue de ris91170 Viry-ChatillonFrancePhone +33 1 691 21150Fax +33 1 691 21159

Chronos Richardson S.r.l.Via Edison Volta 25/A43100 Parma, ItalyPhone +39 0521 94 08 41Fax +39 0521 94 08 27

Chronos Richardson (Thailand) Ltd333/3 Sukhumvit Soi 71 Road Prakanong-Nua,Wattana Bangkok 10110, ThailandPhone +66 2 39 28 380Fax +66 2 38 14 650

The world’s first calibrated automatic G scale celebrated its 120th birthday.

On April 12, 1883, when the first calibratedautomatic scale in the world – the well knownChronos G scale – was approved by the‘Kaiserliche Normal-Aichungs-Kommission’ inBerlin, nobody could imagine that this scalemight still be in production more than onehundred years later. Regular orders mean

that this famous scale is still used today.After the first approval in April 1883, anamendment was made on December 18th,

1888, which documented an essential improvement. The scale then received the design name ‘System C’. Commenting aboutthe forthcoming 120th anniversary of the G(gravimetric) type scale, Group Legal Metrology Manager, Wolfgang Euler, quotedthe Spanish philosopher and author JoséOrtega y Gasset: ‘Progress is not to destroy yesterday’s achievements but topreserve its essence which has thepower to create a better today.’

On the occasion of the centerarian approval anniversary of the ‘Selbsttätigen Registrierwaage’ of

Chronos Richardson, Professor Dr.-Eng. M.Kochsiek, Vice-President of PTB* and OIML,expressed his amazement.‘I am informed thatyou are still manufacturing an automaticweighing scale which in its main features corresponds to the one approved a centuryago. This fact is unique in the scale manufacturing industry and proves the outstanding design and the farsightednessof engineers from your company.’

This year, i.e. 20 years later, Mr. ProfessorDr.-Eng. M. Kochsiek gave further emphasis

to his statement from 1988 by sending another letter. Continued customer demandfrom around the world means that Chronosstill manufactures the ‘G’ type scale underthe current PTB approval number 10.14/79.07. The scale is mainly used for free-flowing bulk materials, e.g. grain, and its highaccuracy still keeps within the national and international Weights & Measures error limits. As recently as 1992, the scale was approved in Belgium, in 1996 in Russia andonly last year in 2002 this G-weigher againreceived approval for another five years in Russia.

PTB: Physikalisch Technische BundesanstaltOIML: (Organisation Internationale de Métrologie Lé-

gale) is the international organisation of the national approval and W&M authorities

*

THE WORLD’S FIRST CALIBRATEDAUTOMATIC G-SCALE CELEBRATES ITS 120th BIRTHDAY


PREMIER TECH CHRONOS has made itsmark over the past 15 years through itscapabilities of providing fully integratedpackaging lines, from the product feedingstation to the stretch wrapped pallet.Complete integration, turnkey projects orone single contact are all terms that comeback to us on a regular basis. This “OneSingle Supplier” concept eliminates thelogistical nightmares often arising from

COMPLETE INTEGRATION SYSTEMS BY A SINGLE SUPPLIER

multi-vendor applications. By manufacturingand integrating each component of the line,PREMIER TECH CHRONOS guarantees aperfect system communication.

PREMIER TECH CHRONOS is specialised ineight product categories: Dosing Systems,Form-Fill-Seal, Open-Mouth and ValveBagging Systems, FIBC (Bulk Bag) FillingSystems, Densification Bagging Systems,Palletizing and Load Security Systems.Each category has its own engineeringteam to work on customer projects. Beingspecialized in specific products, the 95

PREMIER TECH CHRONOS’ engineers canthen better understand the customerneeds and more easily adapt the equipmentto the application.

The PREMIER TECH CHRONOS “One SingleSupplier” concept is more than a “One StopShop” concept. It is 255 teammatesinvolved in the manufacturing processesand 51 service representatives who givean efficient technical support and anunparalleled after-sales service. It is also54 sales representatives and 7 partsdepots available around the world. PREMIERTECH CHRONOS is active in more thantwenty-one countries servicing small tolarge companies and can assist you in allstages of your automation projects. Feelfree to contact us for further informationor to talk with us about your automationprojects at +1-418-868-8324 [email protected]. You canalso visit our web site at : www.premiertechchronos.com.


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