NL: 4,000 bouquets per hour

Recently, a flower processing company in Aalsmeer received six 'almost' brand new bouquet processing lines. Almost brand new, because Hortimat included used bunch machines in the processing lines.

Extended lines are mounted on the frames. The length of the supplied lines ranges between 21 and 23 meters. The advantage of this long length is that at peak days a high processing capacity can be set. 

At the input of the line there are eight to ten people, four people for wrapping and two people for packing. The latter two also arrange the filling of the automated bucket fillers.

The lines are situated ‘back to back’; A left-handed and a right-handed bouquet line. These processing lines can reach a capacity of up to 4,000 bouquets per hour per line.

There are now six lines: four bouquet lines, a hand bouquet line and an import line. The last mentioned line is only used to saw, to bunch and to bind.

All lines are supplied with cutters, bucket fillers, strapping machines and a tape solution for the boxes. What could be automated is automated. During the busiest days, production capacity should not be a limiting factor anymore. The speed of the lines is easy to set. Marcel van den Graaf, Hortimat: "This flexibility makes the line very practical."