ALTech have installed a number of high speed mail handing systems for leading industry operators such as UK Mail, Mail Options, LaPoste, British Forces Post Office (BFPO) and Mail Handling International (MHI) for postage indicia and returns address labelling. MHI is one of Europe’s leading international postal services based in Bristol came to ALTech with an urgent requirement to meet a large job they had just had commissioned.
MHI provides its customers with a price comparison approach to direct mail fulfilment thorough a huge range of global providers. The net result of this is that vast quantities of direct mail pieces, which may already have been indicia printed with a particular mail transporters indicia (e.g. “Royal Mail” ), require rapid over labelling with a new indicia of the provider offering the most competitive delivery service on that day.
ALTech’s solution was designed and manufactured by their UK engineering team and supplied to MHI as a special build in less than 6 weeks (standard lead time 10-12 weeks). It is a fully integrated ALfeed feed and labelling system for a full range of mail products from post cards to C4 envelopes incorporating a vacuum conveyor system, ALritma T Batch print and apply labelling head and intelligent shingle outfeed collection conveyor.
The machine is quick and simple to set up and capable of a feed and labelling speed (even with print) of more than 15,000 mail units per hour, applying labels with millimetre accuracy over any existing printed indicia. The solution also includes a special pneumatic peeler bar system which can be enabled to allow labelling of uneven packages and pouches.
MHI’s CEO commented “investment in ALTech’s mail labelling machine has certainly contributed to our recent growth in business whilst our industry as a whole has declined. Our existing labelling solution is virtually redundant as the ALTech solution is so much faster and easy to use!”
See MHI’s machine in action below.
