Industry leader offers sortation equipment, controls & software to handle widest range of weights, sizes and shapes
Making the correct choice of sortation equipment is critical and can make or break the most sophisticated materials handling systems. FKI Logistex® is widely acknowledged as a global leader in the design, build and installation of automated, high-speed sortation solutions. This British company offers unrivalled choice and expertise – built on a rapidly growing customer base running into thousands of installations worldwide.
FKI Logistex systems handle and sort an unparalleled variety of items covering vastly different weights, shapes and sizes. The company's well-proven, specialist sortation equipment, controls and software are used by a wide spectrum of sectors such as retail, apparel and footwear, automotive, baggage handling, library, post and parcel, food, and beverage and pharmaceutical.
Providing models for to suit virtually any individual application, the FKI Logistex range offers a wide choice of reliable, low maintenance sortation systems. Linear models include Unisort® Sliding Shoe Sorters, which bring together quiet, accurate gentle sortation with the highest throughput rates in the industry. Linear Belt Sorters provide gentle 'no impact' diverting with the company's Unisort LBS model providing the latest technology for handling irregular shaped products difficult to run on sliding shoe sorters.
Loop Sorters include Tilt-Tray Sorters for high-speed and high throughput items - ranging from small, ultra-light fragile items to large, heavy parcel and post, order fulfilment and baggage applications. The FKI Logistex family of low-noise, multi-cell Cross Belt Sorters are specially designed for handling fragile and high-friction items. These systems provide efficient sortation handling large and medium sized items, such as garments, parcels and totes, to smaller products such as books, CD's and DVD's.
All FKI Logistex sortation systems are powered by upgradeable software and controls including PLC and PC-based controls and RFID tracking. The company's Sort Allocation Computers (SAC) meets the rigorous security and on-time performance requirements now demanded by baggage handling and postal systems. FKI Logistex controls and software integrate seamlessly with host systems and provide remote diagnostics, full management data reports, real-time displays and historical trending.
The company's sortation equipment is designed for easy installation into ancillary materials handling systems. Proven fulfilment tracking, wave planning, integration of OCR and vision systems, quality assurance and label printing are all available from FKI Logistex.
The company is believed to have one of the largest Customer Support and Service organisations in the industry with technicians and engineers on call worldwide, 365 days per year to provide fast advice and back up.
For sales or marketing information, contact
Jackie Rutter, European Marketing Manager, FKI Logistex, by phone at +44 (0) 1536 480611 or by e-mail at jackie.rutter@eu.fkilogistex.com