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CONCRETE PRODUCTS & CAST STONE128 CPI %u2013 Concrete Plant International %u2013 5 | 2025 www.cpi-worldwide.comcapacity of up to 600 units. The robot manages the stock and ensures supply and storage according to priorities.The press output line conveys the boards loaded with fresh products to the elevator to be stacked on 20 levels with 350 mm steps. This finger car, carrying 20 pallets, handles storage and retrieval operations. This equipment saves a large building area and allows a rational steaming solution with optimal use of the area. The curing area supplied by the German supplier Rotho can accommodate 6,240 boards. It is equipped with a ventilated and humidity-controlled system to guarantee rigorous drying and uniform curing and maturing conditions of the products.The position of the finger car is continuously monitored by a laser, and the car is driven by servomotors for accurate platform positioning in front of the rails of the curing chamber, elevator and lowerator. Walking beam conveyors allow the production boards to be lifted and moved without friction. The handling and transfer of steel boards have been designed and implemented to avoid noise and wear.100 % automatic and customized robotic handling systemAll the automation programs have been developed to handle all the product ranges, defined according to their shape, and the associated type of palletizing.The main innovation for Quadra lies in the management of a multitude of products of different shapes, sizes and palletizing formats, requiring the integration of six Kuka robots. This is a new challenge for Quadra, whose previous project in the USA already involved five robots.The boards loaded with dry products are transferred to the product removal station, from where they are picked up and oriented by a first robot. This robot feeds the three conveyor lines that move the products either directly to the palletizing station or to the two automatic splitting lines. The special feature of this robot (a KR1000-6-axis model) is that it can pick up the blocks from the side and palletise them flat. The products are successively moved onto a conveyor and picked up by a handling gripper, which groups them together and moves them to the palletizing robot.Products that have been split will continue on their way to the palletising station after being repackaged to the correct palletizing format by the two central robots.The robot manages a buffer stock of up to 600 production boardsCuring area can accommodate up to 6,240 boards