Reynolds Group will move to Level 2 restrictions from Wednesday, September 23 to contain the spread of COVID-19 which will be in place until Wednesday, October 7 at midnight or pending further announcements from the government. The services and products Reynolds supplies for the food, beverage, and FMCG industries means that Reynolds falls under the category of Essential Business. We continue to trade during the Level 2 restrictions.

In order to expand our service capability and provide optimal support for our customers nationwide, we have formed an alliance with Apex Labelling. Reynolds currently provides 24/7 service all year round and offers expert engineering capability that will also now provide service and support for all Apex equipment.

SCHOTT decided on an application in which an RG2-FT gripper from OnRobot is mounted on a collaborating robot arm. The special thing about the electric two-finger gripper is that both force/torque sensors and optical sensors are located in its fingertips. These enable him to “think along”: The sensors feed their process data back to the robot arm, which adjusts its course accordingly.

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Three new Paro palletising robots undergoing final testing at Roteg in Dortmund, Germany, before shipping to Reynolds in NZ for build-up and integration with case and pallet handling systems. This sizeable robotic palletising project has been under heavy time constraints from the outset, and even with Covid-19 everything is still well on schedule, a real testament to the Roteg and Reynolds teams.

The announcement of the move to Level 4 restrictions to contain the spread of coronavirus has created a lot of uncertainty for us all. The services and products Reynolds supplies for the food, beverage and FMCG industries means that Reynolds falls under the category of Essential Business. Therefore we will continue to trade during the Level 4 restrictions, albeit with some caveats, specifically:

We have built this solution based on a Universal Robots UR5 cobot for a customer that needed a little extra reach. The telescoping vacuum gripper extends out a further 200mm as required. The robot will be collecting RSC cartons of varying size from an erector, breaking the flaps, and then delivering them to an outfeed in different orientation depending on the box type. A simple solution that removes a worker from a dead boring job, with rapid payback on investment.