Project: Jansen-Dongen, The Netherlands

Fully automated packing lines for potatoes, onions and carrots
Jansen-Dongen automation

The challenge

Jansen-Dongen has been involved in potatoes, onions, carrots and organic fruit and vegetable products for over 40 years.

 

This innovative producer attaches great importance to sustainability and delivery reliability. Lan Handling’s solutions were preferred when automating multiple packaging lines.

The challenge? The fully automated loading and palletising of various crates and boxes on a small floor space, with sufficient access positions for forklift trucks.

Location The Netherlands, Tilburg
USP Standard (but very flexible) robot cells
Diversity Full and half-sized folding crates, boxes, two pallet types

The solution

For the Jansen-Dongen autmation project Lan Handling supplied multiple packing lines.

 

With these packing lines, bags of potatoes, carrots and onions in nets can be automatically loaded into crates and boxes. How it works?

Crate and box infeed

Stacks of boxes and folding crates are simply fed into the crate erector from a pallet. Both the full-sized (600×400 mm) and half-sized (400×300 mm) crates are automatically unfolded, checked for possible defects, and continue on their way to the robot cell. Defective crates are automatically discharged from the system.

The robot cell

In the robot cell, the products are loaded into folding crates and boxes at high speed and with various packing patterns. At the output of the robot cell towards the palletiser, we have added weighers. This way, only crates and boxes with the correct contents are transported to the palletising robot.

Palletising

After that, palletising takes place on Euro and Chep pallets, including fully automated strapping. Pallets that are ready for transport can be easily picked-up with a forklift from easily accessible positions.


Aardappelen verpakken

Since its foundation in the 1970s, Jansen-Dongen has developed enormously.

Among other things, by various innovations in packaging and the construction and installation of a unique carrot line. Automation, robotization and an even more environmentally conscious production will continue to be central to Jansen-Dongen in the coming years. Lan Handling Technologies is proud to be a part of this!

Jansen-Dongen about Lan
"We have been working with Lan Handling for years. We are very satisfied with the fully automated machinery in our packaging departments and the pleasant, smooth service!"
Peter Jansen, operational director
Jansen-Dongen about Lan
"We have been working with Lan Handling for years. We are very satisfied with the fully automated machinery in our packaging departments and the pleasant, smooth service!"
Peter Jansen, operational director
Aardappelen verpakken

Since its foundation in the 1970s, Jansen-Dongen has developed enormously.

Among other things, by various innovations in packaging and the construction and installation of a unique carrot line. Automation, robotization and an even more environmentally conscious production will continue to be central to Jansen-Dongen in the coming years. Lan Handling Technologies is proud to be a part of this!


Questions? Want to know more? Get in touch!

Dino Boot

Dino Boot

Sales Support Engineer

Lan Handling

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