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Classified Pharmaceutical Client
Bollards, Bump Rails and Corner Guards for a Client in the Pharmaceutical Industry
MCR Industrial Engineering & Cleanroom Equipment recently completed a project which consisted of the manufacture & installation of stainless steel 316 bollards, bump rails & corner guards, all manufactured to GMP standard. The project scope included 205 nr. bollards, over 550 linear meters of bump rail & 175 nr. floor to ceiling level corner guards.
Nypro
MCR Automation has worked extensively with Nypro in the automation and building construction of there filling and packaging lines for the healthcare industry.
MCR use barcode tracking technology to track fully packed boxes to palletising robots to avoid any product mixing.
Our system is efficient and user friendly with 24 hour support by MCR service personal. Also the extent of equipment supplied by MCR are Goods Lifts, Palletising Robots, Conveyors, Labelling Systems, Barcode Scanning, Case Erectors and Case Sealing equipment.
- Fully Integrated cap filling line
- Fully Automated Robot Palletiser
- Automated conveyor lines
- Special Purpose Machinery
- Unique Concepts
- Full Installation
- Project Management
- Complete Turnkey Solutions
- After-sales machinery servicing
Newbridge Foods
Automated Combined Case Erector with Bag in Box System for Sausage Rolls and Meat Pies
MCR Automation provides Newbridge Foods with The CEFLEX-21 machine for case erecting and bag making – inserting.
This equipment is handling sausage rolls and meat pie’s for the foods industry.
- Save up to 30% with made-to-measure bags from a reel.
- Less film used thanks to a perfectly controlled bag insertion.
- PE film starting from 10 mm.
- One single operating touch panel.
- Compact footprint, total width below 1.8 m.
- Easy format change.
Classified Beverage Company
Automated Guided Vehicles Project
MCR Automation provides Automated Guided Vehicles for Concentrated production filling lines and full service support.
1 number Egemin special 4 pallet AGV System from Production area to new warehouse
2 number Egemin LTV 0530 /L vehicles for efficient & effective load transfer from Serac & Main Lines over a 5.5 days x 16 hours / day working week.
Modification / Extension of pick-up conveyors at Serac & Main Lines to allow simultaneous transfer of 2 palletised loads onto adjacent AGV.
Modification of existing buffer conveyor to allow simultaneous delivery of 2 loads from AGV.
Expansion of existing E’tricc control system to include 2 new vehicles.
Automated Box Lines
MCR Automation provides Automated Box Erecting equipment for Salt Lines including full service support.
- Endoline Case erector Model 223 with Hot melt
- Endoline Case erector. Model 204 with Hot melt
- Endoline Case erector Model 205 with Hot melt
- Endoline Case erector Model 225 with Hot melt
PipeLife
MCR Automation provides bespoke machinery and associated handling systems designed to reduce cycle times and drive down production costs. This equipment packs QUAL-PEX piping into special promotion bags. Qual-PEX barrier pipe from PipeLife is truly a first in this generation of thermoplastic pipes and MCR Automation has revolutionised their production packaging equipment.
- Fully Integrated Coil Bagging Line
- Automated Coil Sleeving Lines
- Special Spiral Wrapping Systems
- Bespoke Horizontal Coil Wrapping Line
- Unique Concepts
- Full Installation
- Project Management
- Complete Turnkey Solutions
- After-sales machinery servicing
P&G
MCR Automation provided Procter and Gamble Ireland with two gantry palletising robot systems for Healthcare toothbrush lines. Each palletiser robot can handle two pallet at one time.
GSK
MCR Automation installed the following for GlaxoSmithKline:
Fully Automated Pallet Handling System for Bulk Powder Lines
MCR Automation provided GlaxoSmithKline Ireland with a bespoke pallet conveyor handling line for 1 Tonne Bulk Powder bags on plastic pallets.
Gantry Palletising Robots for Tabs Lines
MCR Automation provided GlaxoSmithKline Ireland with two gantry palletising robot systems for tablet lines. Each palletiser robot can handle two pallets at one time.
Drum and Box Handling Line for Materials and Recipe Line
MCR Automation provided GlaxoSmithKline in Scotland with a fully automated drum and box handling line with two special pass through hatch from low care to high care cleanrooms.
FMC Biopolymer
FMC Biopolymer’s existing facility is used to manufacture Avicel PH, an excipient ingredient for the food and pharmaceutical industries. There had a box and drum packaging line which was obsolete and was replaced with the MCR new bag in box line and drum line. The project was intended to retrofit the existing control system with one that will incorporate existing conveyors and filling lines and manage communication between the new and existing elements. The scope of the project was to design, construct, commission and qualify the new box and drum filling line comprising of a box erector, a liner inserter, bag decuffer and sealer (combined unit) and a box taper, to facilitate the filling and packaging of Avicel, in accordance with GMP standards and procedures. This was a very challenging project where two bag insertion was used for longer shelf life for FMC customers. This was a very successful project and it has opened more places in the market for FMC customers.
- Pattyn Packaging Systems Equipment
- Fully Integrated Bag in Box line
- Case erecting
- Decuffer systems & sealers
- Fully Stainless Steel
- Custom Design
- Unique Concepts
- Fully Integrated conveyor line
- Full Installation
- Project Management
- Complete Turnkey Solutions
- After-sales machinery servicing
Vistakon
MCR Automation supplied two special high speed tray former system by Endoline. This system was customised for Vistakon’s special trays on there new optical goods lines.
- 501 tray erector + 2 Forming Tools.
- Allen-Bradley PLC
- Upgrade to partial Stainless Steel Door Panels and Machine finish in RAL9007
- Spare Parts Kit
- Low hopper sensing
- Make on demand sensing
- Message display unit/HMI
- IP65 Enclosures
- Polycarbonate Guards to replace PETG
- Non-Standard Parts to accommodate tray sizes
- Additional Specific Items ref: TAR3922
- Additional Design-Build Labour Time
- 1.5m belt conveyor with side guides
- Tray Size: 156mm wide x 261mm long x 98mm
- New tray 268.29mm wide x 320.67mm long x 156.37mm high
- Two Tool size
- Rates 18/20 Tray per Min
Classified Meat Company
MCR Automation has worked extensively in the automation and building construction of a classified meat company’s burger line handling system.
The MCR system was designed to transport stretch wrapper palletised of frozen burgers in -25 degrees environment.
Fully stretch wrapped pallets are loaded on the first in feed section in the cold room. Guides are fitted on the conveyor to make sure forklift operators load the pallet in correctly position on the chains. The conveyor then automatic accumulates pallet loads up to the first door. A total of three pallet can accumulate inside the cold room. In feed section is fitted with fork lift protection.
Then in the airlock between the two doors there will be another pallet conveyor zone. This will allow one pallet load to accumulate between the two doors. This will be an interlocked door system where only one door can be opened at one time. This will keep the cold room sealed at all time to prevent energy loss. The chain conveyor in this zone is fitted with an additional drive to shuttle the conveyor left and right to close the gap on transfer of the pallet load between the door gaps.
Then on the final unloading zone near the mezzanine floor this will allow pallet loads to transport through the two doors and accumulate for unloading. This will be a special design option to allow the chain to lift and lower the pallet load onto fixed mezzanine so electrical pallet jack can remove pallet. This area will be fitted with a light barrier and safety fencing. Each time a pallet is unloaded the system will mute, then the operator will remove the pallet. Once the pallet is remove the light barrier activates again and the system start accepting another pallet. The electrical panel and control system was placed outside the Cold Room area. Control Panel was fitted with touchscreen system for automatic and manual jog system. Option included for Automatic reverse mode.
Nutrition Supplies
Nutrition Supply Services project to package various final products (Vitamins, Minerals, Nucleotides, Amino Acids and PUFA’s) into three specific box sizes.
The MCR Automation new packaging line consist of three packaging specific areas. The high containment packaging area, consisting of a liner inserter, decuffer sealer, box taper, labeller and transfer conveyors. An ATEX rated product filling suite within the high containment area, containing the product filling equipment. The secondary containment area that will house box erection and finished product pallitising operations.
External to the secondary high containment area will be the box line consumables assembly area and a finished product holding area as per details in sketch above.
MCR Automation are using barcode tracking technology to track fully packed boxes to palletising robots to avoid any product mixing. The box packaging line will operate as a standalone facility as regards line operations; the filler will however be interlocked to the building environmental controls such that it will only operate when the environmental controls are operational.
Nutrition Supply Services production operators will transfer finished product in 1.5 M/T Tote Bins from the facilities manufacturing area into the box line packaging area. Here the totes will be loaded onto a discharge system located above the box filling equipment, from where they will be filled into either of the three box sizes to the required different finished product weights for that specific box.
Aryzta, Grangecastle, Dublin
Client Activity: The manufacture and distribution of frozen food products
Client requirement: To achieve an environmentally secure loading dock facility and to increase the operational and cost efficiency by reducing chill air loss through the loading docks.
Solution: MCR Engineering provided 16no. Constant Contact Foam Pad Dock Seals, technical features include auto adjustable dock seal head curtain, heavy duty foam pad dock seals with wear resistant pleats, spring steel dock bumpers 1no raised 100mm above ffl.
Grifols, Grangecastle, Dublin
Client Activity: To process and distribute frozen blood plasma.
Client Requirement: To achieve an unbroken cold chain and environmentally secure loading dock facility, with provision to open vehicle doors into the loading dock.
Solution: MCR Engineering provided 7no Esidock loading dock systems, technical features include 4 sided environmental dock seal, telescopic lip dock leveller and retractable dock bumpers.
Vitacress, Andover U.K.
Client Activity: The cultivation and distribution of Watercress prepacked salads.
Client Requirement: To achieve an environmentally secure loading facility, with provision to open vehicle doors into the loading dock.
Solution: MCR Engineering provided 13no. Esidock loading dock systems, technical features include 4 sided environmental dock seal, telescopic lip dock leveller and retractable dock bumpers.
Corby Rock
MCR Engineering provided a solution for our client in the grain industry, the nature of the clients business meant the requirement for large openings had to be maintained while provided ease of access for large vehicles while containing designated areas while the trucks were bulk loading.
Celtic Pure
MCR Engineering delivered 5 Loading bays to Celtic Pure, the client opted for upgraded ‘Constant Contact Head Seal’ arrangements on the exterior envelope for a greater environmental seal and prevention of external weather ingress.
Covanta DWTE (new waste Incinerator Poolbeg)
MCR were engaged by a number of contractors under the overall supervision of the PM Group to provide external wall large on grade access door solution, internal Roll fast and Fire shutter solutions where required and specialised large automated gates for external site access control and internal dump truck control. We used the Loading Systems 601 Sectional door solution on external opes to provide an insulated solution to complement the external wall cladding, some doors with personnel pass doors incorporated. For the automatic gate requirement we used the BALU aluminium construction heavy duty gate(up to 19000mm span) with 15 year paint guarantee for the marine environment.
Glanbia Lough Egish
MCR were engaged by Glanbia with Malone O’Regan acting as consultants to provide a loading bay solution at their expanded UHT facility. The brief demanded the best possible sealing at the loading bay which is the most vulnerable point in the building to pest ingress. With this in mind MCR installed our ESIDOCK loading bay solution which provides for a four sided seal around the trailer while the loading/ unloading process takes place. MCR also provided on grade access, fast acting, Fire shutter and steel doors for the project.
BWG Foods NDC
MCR were retained by RBH Project Management on behalf of the BWG Group to act as the main contractor to refurbish 12 no. existing loading bays and create 6 no additional loading bays including all civil works. MCR completed all bays with our Constant Contact Dock seal which provides the best possible seal in the conventional loading bay situation.
