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Dawson Equipment for Friskies.


Dawson Dawson or Dawson City, city (1991 pop. 972), W Yukon Territory, Canada, at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers. It is the trade center of the Klondike mining region and a tourist center. , tel:0184 275 3505, recently carried out a turnkey See turnkey system.  installation at the Friskies Petcare factory in Wisbech.

The equipment they installed included a Levati tall-pack depalletizer and an automatic canning line. This [pounds]300,000 automation upgrade project forms a crucial part of Friskies' future site development and expansion plans. Dawsons provided complete project management, from inspection through to completion of mechanical and electrical installation.

The canning line, manufactured at Dawson's Thetford facility, conveys a 1000 cans a minute to the filling machine and was customized to fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil  
tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils
1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises.

2.
 exacting criteria. The tailor-made conveyor Conveyor

A horizontal, inclined, declined, or vertical machine for moving or transporting bulk materials, packages, or objects in a path predetermined by the design of the device and having points of loading and discharge fixed or selective.
, that is both longer and taller, allows for the transportation of a greater number of cans.

Manual labour is a thing of the past now that the tall-pack depalletizer, which automatically places cans on to the Dawson conveyor, replaces the previous manual use of short-pack depalletizers, which employed up to five operatives per shift. By supplying an infill in·fill  
n.
1. The use of vacant land and property within a built-up area for further construction or development, especially as part of a neighborhood preservation or limited growth program.

2.
 machine, the line can be left unattended for up to 2.5 hours of a production run, which has resulted in a considerable reduction in handling times.
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Title Annotation:Levati tall-pack depalletizer and canning line
Publication:Food Trade Review
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:May 1, 2000
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