Bagging equipment was recently upgraded on an ocean going ship by Accuweigh’s Budpak branch.
The bagging equipment was originally installed on the 47,000 tonne bulk sugar vessel, CHL Progressor, by Budpak in 1990.
Designed to discharge 50kg bags of white refined sugar at a rate of 360 tonne per hour, the bagging equipment included six individual bagging lines comprising:
• Duplex Net Weighers
• Bag Closing Lines
• Transfer Conveyors
The bagging equipment was updated as the original weight controllers fitted to the bagging lines nearly twenty years ago were no longer able to be supported with spare parts. The client had no hesitation in accepting Budpak’s offer of updating the bagging lines with the latest Budpak Pack-Scan 500 weight controllers.
An Accuweigh/Budpak specialist technician completed the bagging equipment upgrade while the vessel was in dry dock in Istanbul Turkey with the final commissioning being completed in Holland when the bulk carrier was being loaded with white refined sugar.
Budpak’s PAK-SCAN 500 is based on an Allen-Bradley touch screen PLC with custom software to provide an operator friendly graphical interface to all weighing functions of the bagging equipment. Each PACK-SCAN 500 is capable of controlling up to eight weighing buckets and achieving both high speed filling rates combined with very high bag filling accuracies.
Budpak’s bagging machines are a favourite with sugar companies’ through-out the Asia Pacific with over 60 retail weighers with 6-8 weigh heads each being installed during the last 20 years.