Customized high performance sorting system for international online book seller

Swiss material handling specialist Ferag AG equips Book Depository's international fulfillment center in Gloucester/UK with a customized high performance sorting system. Up to 14,400 packages per hour are conveyed and sorted on the two redundant Denisort loops with a total length of 154 m. The extremely compact system requires only 240 m2 for its 32 sorting destinations.

Challenge / Project goal

• Automation and optimization of the sorting process
• Automated connection from packaging machine
• High performance sorter
• Small footprint, system had to fit into existing facility
• Future-proof solution