As part of a modernisation drive, the Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited has installed an automatic storage and retrieval system at Kagithapuram near here at an estimated cost of Rs. 4.30 crore.
The TNPL Managing Director V. Moorthy declared open the system on Friday.
The vertical storage system has two lanes and the cost of civil construction alone was to the tune of Rs.1 crore. In the 20 pigeon holes established at present, around 60 tonnes of paper could be stored and retrieved in an hour, Mr. Moorthy said.
There was enough space to double the handling capacity at the automatic storage and retrieval system, he added.
Stating that the scientific way of storing and retrieving the fine paper material would help reduce wastage and damage, Mr. Moorthy observed that an operator could organise the activities at the facility sitting in a control room with minimal human resource. Also, the handling time has been reduced to just one minute for shifting a tonne of paper on the two lanes.
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