Swedish industrial gases company AGA has today inaugurated its new €40m fully automated cylinder filling plant in Enköping.
The first-of-its-kind in Europe, and one of the largest gas filling facilities within AGA, the entire production flow is automated from sorting, filling, storage to picking.
Picture self-propelled trucks set gas cylinders in locks where they are automatically sorted according to the desired filling and receiver, a robot lifts the bottles into the filling carousel and then back out and into the lock where they are picked back up by the self-propelled trucks.
AGA’s filling plant in Enköping will handle approximately 1.8 million cylinder-fillings per year and at the same time six sites have been consolidated into this new plant.
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