Warsteiner AVN

Automatic Container
Crane Installations
for WARSTEINER (D)
and AVN (A)
Two container cranes operate side-by-side at this fully automatic installation site.
Innovation and Competence
Fully-automatic container crane
installations from Kuenz provided
for optimized logistic processes.
How does waste incineration link with the brewing of a premium beer?
At a first glance nothing, at a second glance however a link can be seen.
In these days both processes – the environmentally friendly incineration of waste and as well beer brewing – are highly
mechanised and automated. Automated control techniques monitoring the process and determine what goes on.
All this requires the highest quality standards.
For many years producers have not been offered the possibility of using a similar level of automation in the delivery and
transfer of goods, even if containers were used for this purpose, as they were used to in their storage and processing
control techniques. This gap is now being bridged by Kuenz crane installations!
Fully-automatic container crane for transfer of ISO and domestic containers for the Warsteiner Brewery in Germany.
Automatic container crane
Warsteiner Brewery.
The German brewery relies on Kuenz quality automatic
container transfer. An automatic container crane forms the
link between production and rail delivery. The crane spans
an open depot with a capacity of 400 20ft containers.
Crane functions:
Fully automatic storage and removal of
containers within the storage area
Railway – storage transfer
Storage – road transfer
The crane is designed for fully automatic operation within
the secured area and does not have a crane operator cabin.
The CPU of the crane receives the orders direct from the
warehouse management program.
« We opted for Kuenz, because we
wanted to use know-how of the
specialists for this fully automatic
container crane installation. »
Josef Pater, Warsteiner Brewery
The CPU controls the storage and removal, in addition to
the restacking and pre-sorting of containers. The crane‘s
sensors and mechanics are designed in such a way that 6
containers can be stacked on top of one another with an
accuracy of +/- 45 mm. For this purpose, the crane was
equipped with a very stable rope tower, a rotary spreader,
a micro motion system as well as a comprehensive position detection system. For safety reasons, the transfer of
goods to HGVs or the railway is carried out by a crane
operator located at a remote control stand.
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AVN loading and unloading station
Fully-automatic transfer
of ACTS containers at AVN Duernrohr.
Kuenz designed and manufactured an innovative fully automatic container crane installation which allows for fullyautomatic transfer of approx. 330,000 t of waste annually.
Waste is primarily delivered by rail in ACTS containers.
The installation meets the following demands:
Lifting and rotating containers up to 30 t weight from
the railway car over more than 20 m to the top edge
of the waste bunker
Weighing the container during transfer and
controlling the degree of filling during repositioning
on the railway car
Exceptional reliability and automation required due
to high-load capacity
Designed for ACTS containers instead of ISO containers
Kuenz designed a gantry crane travelling on a raised crane
rail for AVN. The redundant crane installation operates with
two cranes. Crane # 1 transfers containers between the rail
way and interim warehouse. Crane # 2 transports containers from the interim warehouse to the unloading station.
The automation includes loading and unloading of railway
AVN control stand
cars, the interim warehouse and unloading station, complete dual operation of both cranes and if needed the
emergency operation of only one crane.
If required manual intervention of the crane operation can
be pe formed by personnel located at a remote control
stand.
One particular challenge was to develop an automatic
system to fully load and unload railway cars with ACTS
containers. For this task, Kuenz engineers designed and
executed a concept which enables an automatic vertical
transfer of these custom-made containers (to begin with,
these containers were not designed for any vertical transfer).
« Kuenz engineers convinced us
with a clever and overall functional
design concept. »
Bernhard Bogner, AVN Duernrohr
The best reference is a
successfully completed
project.
Visit www.kuenz.com for further information.
Technical information on
the Warsteiner installation
Technical information on the AVN installation
Container crane data:
Container crane data:
Crane rail length:
115m
Lifting height:
20m
270°
Slewing range:
Crane rail length:
Lifting height:
40 t
Crane rail width:
Lifting capacity-piggy-backs:
40t
Container: Container: 32 t
12,48m
ACTS
32,20m
ISO 20 ft, 40 ft, 43 ft, 45 ft
Operating speeds:
Operating speeds:
Full load lifting:
0–40 m/min
Lifting:
Part load lifting:
0–60 m/min
Crane travel:
Crane travel:
0–180 m/min
Trolley travel:
0–60 m/min
Power:
Lifting gear:
19,20m
Lifting capacity:
Lifting capacity-twist locks:
Crane rail width:
104m
0–30 m/min
0–100 m/min
Power:
470 kW / 60 % ED
Lifting gear:
246 kW / 100 % ED
Crane travelling gear:
12 x 25 kW
Crane travelling gear:4 x 13 kW / 100 % ED
Trolley travelling gear:
14 x 13 kW
Secondary installations:
Slewing gear:
17 kW
6 kW / 60 % ED
Hans Kuenz GmbH, 6971 Hard - Austria, Tel + 43 5574 6883 0, Fax + 43 5574 6883 19
sales@kuenz.com, service@kuenz.com, www.kuenz.com
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