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 Load cells experts at Flintec are supplying sophisticated process weighing equipment to help boost productivity at Britain’s largest supplier of free range eggs.
Flintec is providing John Bowler Eggs with silo weighing equipment so the company can assess more accurately when poultry feed silos need replenishing and eggs need collecting.
John Bowler Eggs works with a network of 150 egg producers across the UK to supply some of Britain’s biggest supermarkets, including Sainsbury and Waitrose. Together the producers provide John Bowler’s clients with more than 1.5 million eggs per day.
John Bowler works with producers by supplying their birds with feed and collecting the eggs. The company is always seeking to maximise returns for its producers and so called on Flintec to create a load cells solution that would streamline the process and make it more efficient.
Flintec’s load cell designers responded with a process weighing system that could be installed at all the egg producers’ farms - silo weighing equipment that could be monitored remotely, telling John Bowler precisely when feed would need replenishing and eggs should be collected.
It has resulted in a series of important ‘wins’:
- John Bowler Eggs can now plan vehicle journeys more efficiently, reducing the number of trips required, saving fuel and driver hours.
- Egg producers benefit from the efficiencies thanks to the savings being made by John Bowler.
- Countryside communities and the environment will benefit from the reduced numbers of lorry journeys needed.
Flintec started with a pilot project to equip three John Bowler egg producers with the silo weighing equipment. The technology proved so efficient at these sites that the scheme is now being rolled out to all 150 producers across the UK.
Load cells specialists at Flintec based their solution on three tried and tested products:
- Type RC3 compression load cells, the industry benchmark for high quality precision accuracy column load cells.
- Type 55-20 Flintec self-aligning weighing modules with integrated lift-off and bump stops for compression load cells, designed for demanding applications such as silo and tank weighing.
- Type LDU68.2 load cell electronics that integrate seamlessly into automation systems.
Flintec Managing Director David Weeks said: “As a global provider of load cells technology, Flintec’s expertise is unrivalled.
“This contract demonstrates once again how Flintec has evolved from a load cells supplier to a provider of complete end-to-end seamless solutions.”
Flintec has as least half a century of expertise in solving process weighing challenges for engineers across the planet. Its designers provide fast, stable and seamless load cells solutions with either off the shelf or customised load cell technology.
For more information about Flintec load cells and force measurement solutions, please contact David Weeks, +44 (0)2920 797959, www.flintec.com, sales@flintec.co.uk
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Flintec UK Ltd
Unit G6, Capital Point
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Cardiff, CF3 2PY
Tel. +44 (0)2920 797959
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Email: sales@flintec.co.uk
Flintec is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of precision load cells and strain gage electronics innovating a diverse range of force measurement solutions for customers who demand optimum accuracy, quality and customer service.
Founded in Sweden, the company has focused upon the design and manufacture of strain gages, load cells, measurement electronics and software for a diverse industry base from weighing machinery to new markets in the medical device, industrial and agricultural machinery and process automation sectors.
Flintec is part of the Swedish Indutrade Group (www.indutrade.se) listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm. Indutrade comprises 100 subsidiaries with 3,000 employees and an annual revenue of $1 billion.
Our teams have always actively sought out the most difficult load cell weighing and force measurement challenges. Flintec innovates solutions for applications that rival firms either ignored or tackled badly.
In recent years, Flintec has expanded with:
- two hi-tech major manufacturing facilities in Sri Lanka (at Katunayake and Koggola)
- sales, distribution and customer support facilities in the USA, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Sri Lanka, China and India
- 1,000 highly-trained employees committed to developing innovating measurement solutions, maximum accuracy and rapid delivery.
Major sectors served include medical device manufacturing, process weighing, weighing machinery, industrial and agricultural vehicles, test & measurement plus process automation & control.
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