Atkin Automation goes to the Czech Republic with American multi-national

Thetford, Norfolk: As part of a major investment programme to support its position as the preferred choice of major retailers in the UK and Europe, an American multi-national organisation has placed a further contract, worth £850,000, with Atkin Automation.   

This contract is for a turnkey package consisting of two automated production lines for the manufacture of shelving for use in European supermarkets. It will be entirely UK designed and manufactured in Thetford, Norfolk, but it is destined for a new factory in the Eastern Czech Republic belonging to one of the customer’s  subsidiary companies.

Atkin Automation equipment used to provide the key functionality of the shelf line will include a 10,000 kg decoiler, a motorised straightener with photobeam loop control and a servo roll feed. Notching units, hydraulic shears and end benders, a conveyor system and stack and de-stack units will be incorporated into this sophisticated production line to ensure an output of 10 shelves per minute.