Application 020: Food distributionAgrexco, Israel
Once the plants have been harvested, the race against time begins. Israel’s leading exporter of fresh food, Agrexco, sends out up to 65,000 cartons of edibles daily. Important device: the vertical high performance sorter from Sinsheim.
 | Herbal essence - world wide renowned
Almost as soon as a foreign order for herbs, spices or flowers has been received at the head office in Tel Aviv, Agrexco's partners- farmers and breeders - are
already active. After having been transported to the airport in refrigerated trucks, the goods are immediately unloaded, transported, sorted, palletised and begin their journeys
as air freight to the supermarket shelves of Europe and the world. Agrexco-Products enjoy world wide renown under the trademark "Carmel".
Fresh ingredients finely sorted
An average of a mere 72 hours elapses before Carmel herbs from the fertile plains of Israel arrive in the kitchens of the European consumers. That sounds like a record breaking
achievement, is part of Agrexco's "Ecofresh"-Quality offensive and provides evidence of the capabilities in the interaction between man and machine. Agrexco's sorting
plant at Tel Aviv airport is no exception to this. On the contrary, operated by Hasharon Ltd., the sorting plant guarantees, as a crucial point in the total logistics chain,
everything that an exporter of edibles is entitled to expect: accurate piecing together of the order, quick, safe and clean distribution, and correct allocation and packaging of
the goods ready for flight. Currently, more than 6,100 tons of herbs pass through the plant annually. It is planned to increase this to up to 10,000 tons.
Transport technology from a good source
After the pallets of herbs, each consisting of 250 cartons, have been received, the units weighing between one and three kilograms are placed by hand upon three conveyor belts. Up
to 2, 500 cartons per hour and belt, theoretically up to 100 tons, can be handled during the ten-hour daily shift. Regardless of which particular point the small boxes (minimum
dimensions: 25 cm x 20 cm x 22 cm) pass through in the sorting plant: Interroll transport technology in the shape of conveyor belts or belt curves are always at hand. The cartons
on the feeding lines are then taken over by a collecting sector which in turn feeds the Interroll Crossbelt sorter (vertical version). Barcodes on the cartons - already put
there by the farmers - make it possible to draw conclusions about the nature of the goods. The labels are read by barcode scanners that are installed upstream of the
Interroll Sorter and feed the sorter's guidance system with data regarding the intended destination.
"Game, set and match" for the crossbelt sorter
Guided with precision, the boxes of herbs are placed upon the sorting line, transportation to the end points is gentle and fast at a speed of up to 1.3 metres per second. The
goods are elegantly discharged at one of the 89 destinations. This is because, upon arrival at the destination allocated by the guidance system, Interroll's unique mechanics
come into their own. Belt conveyors mounted on the crossbelt sorter's carriages (500 mm x 500 mm) and pneumatically activated, push out the goods to both sides at right
angles to the running direction of the sorter. Subsequently the cartons containing the precious items produced by Mother Nature roll gently and smoothly along gravity roller
tracks made by Interroll to the removal point. Now re-palletising and X-Ray Checks - key word "air freight" - can begin.
Interroll Contact:
Avi Goldiner
il.sales@interroll.com
+972-54-4272747
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