Airport Baggage Handling Systems and Sorting

Key Facts:

• Residential Service Teams to provide technical maintenance support, on Crisplant & BEUMER tilt-tray sorters for Babcock at Heathrow.
• Contract covers all the Crisplant and BEUMER Group sorters installed in London Heathrow Airport’s Terminals 1, 4 and 5.
• All aspects of maintenance support and system optimisation are included in the contract

Crisplant – part of BEUMER Group and a leading global supplier of automated baggage handling systems – has been awarded a five-year Residential Service Contract by Babcock International Group PLC for support with the maintenance of all BEUMER and Crisplant baggage handling systems installed in London Heathrow Airport (LHA), in the UK.
 
Working in partnership with Babcock, which has overall responsibility for the operations and maintenance of all baggage handling systems at Heathrow Airport, Crisplant will provide on-site personnel to support a full range of maintenance services. These services include operative and technical system support; preventive and corrective maintenance and inspection; spare parts management and contingency planning as well as system analysis and optimisation.
 
The contract covers all Crisplant and BEUMER tilt-tray sorters installed in Heathrow Airport’s Terminals 1, 4 and 5, between 1997 and 2008. Crisplant and BEUMER Group UK personnel will be deployed on-site to assist Babcock in achieving the criteria for system performance and availability set out by Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL).
 
“The Residential Service Contracts will provide Heathrow Airport and Babcock with 24/7 access to Crisplant and BEUMER Group personnel’s expertise in maintaining and optimising the performance of our sorters,” explains Finn Laugesen, Crisplant’s Director, Customer Support.
 
Note to Editors:
The BEUMER Group is an international leader in the manufacture of intralogistics systems for conveying, loading, palletising, packaging, sortation and distribution. Together with Crisplant a/s and Enexco Teknologies India Limited, the BEUMER Group employs about 3,200 people worldwide, and achieves an annual turnover of about 500 million EUR. With its subsidiaries and sales agencies, the BEUMER Group serves customers around the globe, across a wide range of industries. For further information visit: www.beumergroup.com.

For sales or marketing information, contact

Peter Elmvang, Director of Marketing & Communications, Crisplant,
tel: +45 8741 4141 e-mail: peter.elmvang@beumergroup.com
 
For media information, contact Debbie Norton, Account Manager, Napier,
tel: +44 (0) 1243 531123 email: debbie@napier.co.uk