TTE: Beumer to unveil automated handling of green and cured tires

Cologne, Germany – German supplier of automated material handling systems Beumer Group is showcasing its latest ‘tire tray system’ at Tire Technology Expo, being held 10-12 Feb in Cologne.

The tire tray system automates the management and handling of green and cured tires throughout the production process. The technology can increase capacity and productivity within existing production facilities, said a company release on 3 Feb.

According to Beumer Group, the system offers “high-speed, high-capacity transportation, sortation and storage of green tires, from tire building to the curing presses.”

This process, it said, is combined with careful and accurate manipulation which is achieved without ever gripping the tire.

For cured tires, “all quality inspection, warehousing and outbound sorting processes are integrated into a single LS-4000CB cross-belt sorter loop,” the company further claimed.

The cross-belt sorter provides the flexibility and capacity required by high-volume tire manufacturing facilities to support increased capacity.

The company added that the new system could be “easily be installed” in existing tire production facilities to replace manual handling of tires with a fully-automated process.