BEUMER Group awarded contract for dynamic Early Baggage Storage (EBS) at Arlanda Airport, Sweden

BEUMER Group, a leading global supplier of automated baggage handling system, has been awarded the contract by airport owners, Swedavia, to design, supply and install a new CrisStore® dynamic Early Baggage Storage (EBS) system at Arlanda Airport, Sweden. The CrisStore® will be integrated in the airport’s Terminal 5 while maintaining live operation of the baggage handling system.

The contract is part of Arlanda Airport’s plan to increase capacity from 21 million passengers per year to 36 million passengers per year by 2050. BEUMER Group’s CrisStore® system will be installed during the early phase of the airport’s extensive expansion and reorganization of the terminal building and baggage handling system.

“Arlanda has ambitious plans to become the preferred Scandinavian hub,” explains Bert Rasmusson, Swedavia BHS Project manager of the Arlanda development project. “One of the airport’s key criteria, therefore, was to implement state-of-the-art technology in the new EBS. This will ensure maximum availability now and support further expansion by providing the easy scalability and compatibility with future systems.”

The CrisStore® rack-based storage system will provide over 1500 bag positions and enable Arlanda to improve the capacity, accuracy and security of the EBS system. As a module-based solution, using CrisBag® totes, CrisStore offers the required level of redundancy within the limited space available. The system has the flexibility to fit within the confines of low headroom and to adapt to the airport’s longer-term BHS requirements.

BEUMER Group’s Johan Rajczyk, International Sales Manager, comments, “A joint simulation of the BHS has already been carried out by Arlanda Airport and BEUMER Group. This has confirmed that the system will provide the planned capacity following the integration of the new EBS with Arlanda’s legacy Crisplant tilt-tray sorter.”

The high-level controls for Arlanda’s baggage handling system have also recently been upgraded to BEUMER Group’s Airport Software Suite. This modular control system provides the ability to handle the storage of bags based on the flight number. It also enables handlers to retrieve individual bags on demand.

The combination of the updated controls and CrisStore’s flexibility will enable the EBS to support the handling of over-size totes for out-of-gauge baggage. It will also allow Arlanda to implement future plans to batch-build bags for speed-loading onto a ULD or trolleys.