Tramar SRC from Le Havre France is a logistics company that unloads green coffee from containers and that can store up to 160.000 bags of coffee beans. They handle about 50.000 MT of green coffee annually.
In 2019 Tramar was facing difficulties to find people to unload their containers manually. To mitigate the labour shortage problem Tramar purchased an automatic container unloader & palletizer from Copal Handling Systems of The Netherlands. Since June 2020 This machine has been in operation to the full satisfaction of Laurent Gouédard, director of Tramar SRC.
Labour shortage however is not diminishing, to the contrary, it has been increasing year after year. Mid 2021 Laurent Gouédard went to Copal again to find a solution for re-stacking coffee bags from large harbour pallets to smaller euro pallets.
In February 2022 Copal commissioned an automatic re-palletizing robot at Tramar. An advanced camera system recognizes the position of each individual bag and sends its coordinates to the robot. The bags can therefore be accurately picked up and re stacked on a different pallet size. Different coffee bags on one pallet is possible as well. The Copal re-palletizing robot will make mixed pallets with no effort at all.
In stead of 3 people plus a forklift driver to re-palletize one forklift driver is now enough to do get the job done.
Laurent Gouédard says: ‘Copal has succeeded in developing this re-palletizing system in line with our technical constraints and needs. The system is efficient and exceeds our expectations in terms of output. The simplicity of its use requires very little training time. We are delighted with this continuing partnership between Copal and Tramar SRC'.
Copal Handling Systems
Goorsestraat 9
7041 GA ’s-Heerenberg
The Netherlands
info@copalgroup.com