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News Release from: Robson Handling Technology | Subject: Modular baggage handling conveyors
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 25 October 2001
Modular baggage handling conveyors for
Stansted
Robson's latest airport project takes it to one of Europe's fastest expanding destinations - BAA's London Stansted, which plays host to more than 11 million passengers a year
Robson's latest airport project takes it to one of Europe's fastest expanding destinations - BAA's London Stansted, which plays host to more than 11 million passengers a year Responsible for the airport's original baggage handling system when it opened in 1991, Robson was on site almost continuously between 1994 and 1998 to install 100% HBS (Hold Baggage Screening) on all three departures lines
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 15 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The two companies, who have previously collaborated at the UK's Heathrow and Liverpool Airports, are working on the first extension to the terminal, which will cater for international and domestic departures and domestic arrivals.
Initially engaged by BAA as consultants, Siemens in collaboration with Robson has now been awarded the contract for the New Terminal Baggage Handling System and Robson are responsible for the mechanical conveyor equipment, at a value of £1.3 million.
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At the Cantley site, Robson's task was to provide a new bulk outloading facility, complete with the steel-framed building to house it and a dedicated tanker access road.
Robson will design, build, install and commission the new equipment based on its own modular baggage handling conveyors - technology that it has refined on projects at almost every UK airports and as far afield as Saudi Arabia, Greece and Hong Kong.
The project is scheduled for hand-over at the end of November 2001 in readiness for the official opening in December.
Stansted's new departures system will have 18 desks around a check-in island with a common collector conveyor that feeds into the baggage hall, where bags undergo 100% Hold Baggage Screening en route to sorting.
HBS includes automatic Level 3 screening - an enhancement of the facilities on the three other departures lines, where Level 3 checks are carried out by an operator using an off-line X-ray scanner.
The sortation system consists of a tilt-track sorter on an overhead mezzanine floor.
Bags can be tilted onto any one of 36 chutes, which are automatically allocated to loading flights by the control system in response to prevailing demand.
They then travel down the appropriate chute under gravity to the corresponding pick-off position, where they are collected by staff and loaded for transfer to the aircraft.
Bags from domestic arrivals are fed onto an unloading conveyor, and are transferred on a delivery line to an inclined carousel in the arrivals hall for passenger collection.
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