2010-01-12 - ABB are delighted to be finalists in the Food Processing Awards in the category of Robotics and Automation with the robotic technology that has helped transform the production of pancakes at the Honeytop Speciality Foods Ltd plant.
The installation consists of two lines each utilising four FlexPicker IRB 360 robots for the picking and stacking of pancakes. The solution, designed, built and installed by ABB’s channel partner – RG Luma, ensures the company can meet its own stringent requirements for the hygienic handling of food, as well as introducing reduced labour costs and improved health and safety levels at the 120,000 square foot manufacturing plant in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
Honeytop Speciality Foods Ltd, the UK’s leading privately owned Naan bread producer and Europe’s leading volume manufacturer of speciality flatbreads, produces more than 100,000 artisanal breads an hour.
The FP Awards, which is now in its 26th year, will be held on the evening of 29 April 2010 at the Hinckley Island Hotel in Leicestershire.
The solution at Honeytop...