Turkish postal system features Crisplant automation

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Materials handling systems provider Crisplant will install Turkey’s first automatic tray handling system for processing mail.

Crisplant has been awarded a contract by the Turkish General Directorate of Post and Telegraph Organisation (PTT) to install a complete automatic tray-handling system designed to increase security, efficiency and ergonomics.

Working in partnership with Systec Sistem Teknolojileri A.Ş, a local provider of smart card and mail systems, Crisplant will provide a safe and energy efficient working environment for staff at the PTT’s postal sorting centre near Istanbul.

The system, which processes trays with mail bags as well as mail carton boxes, reduces energy consumption by 75% compared to conventional sorters.

At the heart of the system is the latest Crisplant, high-speed, high-accuracy LS-4000CB Cross Belt Sorter, which will sort incoming and secured items and distribute them to the appropriate mail sorting areas.

Once the mail sorting is complete, mail trays and boxes will be reintroduced onto the sorter for dispatch to their final destination.

The complete installation will be managed by Crisplant’s high-level control software which ensures an optimum process flow, as well as providing a high level of ergonomic efficiency.

The automated mail-processing system is due to be handed over by the end of 2010.

Initially, the system will handle more than 6,000 trays per hour, with a further expansion to 8,000 trays per hour planned to meet predicted future increases in demand.

“As one of the first companies to introduce tray-handling systems to the European market, Crisplant has designed and installed some of the world’s most innovative postal systems,” says Crisplant director logistics systems Henrik Mortensen.

“This includes the Mail Centre in Vienna (BZO Wien), which is recognised as state-of-the-art in mail-handling efficiency and visited by staff from mail centres around the world.

“Crisplant has also installed versions of the tray-handling system in seven Royal Mail sites in the UK and several large-scale centres in the North America.”