GIC celebrates 25 years of designing and installing bullion plants
A turnkey supplier of automated coin packing lines has celebrated 25 years in the bullion industry by supplying its latest 2021 solution.
GIC, which designs and manufactures fully automated bullion counting lines, undertook its first project in 1996 and since completed a further six projects.
The Lincolnshire-Based company’s latest project is a 20-metre long line that receives bulk coin from a conveyor and then splits the coin into three lanes. Each lane features coin counters, a primary bagger and a primary GIC check-weigher. The smaller bags of coin are counted into a larger bag, checked on a secondary GIC check-weigher, before an end-of-line robot transfers the bagged coins into cages.
Installed at the start of April, the project is the seventh bullion plant that GIC has designed and built. This latest line can pack up to 270 primary bags per minutes, dependent on the denomination.
“We are best known for our work in fresh produce, food and aggregates,” says Luke Murphy, director of GIC. “But our handling and packaging machines and our engineering expertise are also beneficial to banks operating in the bullion industry. We remove the worry and hassle from our clients by offering a complete turnkey solution, from design and manufacture through to installation and commission. We’ve really enjoyed the last 25 years, and it will be interesting to see how bullion plants are affected by the continued decline in the use of coins.”
Based in Gainsborough, GIC was established more than 30 years ago and employs 25 people. The company manufactures an extensive range of vertical bagmakers, producing a wide range of finished bag sizes from 150 to 600mm wide in intermittent and continuous motion variants. All GIC machines offer low-cost ownership, robustness, reliability and exceptional build quality.
As well as bullion, GIC’s Vertical Form Fill and Seal machines integrate seamlessly with upstream equipment such as check-weighers, multi-head weighers, cup fillers and counters, with the company offering efficient and cost-effective after sales to all of its customers in fresh and frozen produce, cereals, snacks, confectionery, pasta, powders and pulses, industrial hardware and liquids.
