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LOGISTICS COMPANY KEEPING IT SORTED Having recently celebrated 10 years in the Australian market, DAMON Australia’s General Manager Rick Woestyne explains how the logistics company continues to help Australian businesses better sort their items, and what it had to do to overcome the obstacles brought on by COVID-19.
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AMON Australia is an extension of DAMON Group, a Chinese intelligent logistics systems and core equipment provider founded in 1997. The Australian branch celebrated its 10th anniversary last December. Based at its Melbourne headquarters, Rick Woestyne is DAMON Australia’s General Manager. He says the company offers end-to-end solutions for materials handling and sortation systems for a variety of industries including e-commerce, logistics, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, apparel, and more. “The equipment we provide to complement our conveying and sortation systems are carton storage and retrieval systems, pallet storage, goods-toperson-picking stations, robot miniload tote storage systems, carton and pallet elevators, and telescopic belt conveyors,” Rick says. “We also have agency agreements with specialist suppliers who offer unique solutions to problems encountered in conveying and sorting products,” he adds. When DAMON Australia started trading just over a decade ago, it was manufacturing conveyor rollers. “We set up the factory to produce rollers to meet local needs at a
DAMON celebrated its 10th anniversary in Australia in December 2021. competitive price,” Rick explains. During that time, Rick says the company’s product range has substantially grown. “We now have the ability to manufacture not only conveyor rollers, but the complete conveyor system,” he says. DAMON provides companies its equipment and solutions so they can handle more items and reduce error rates and labour. It has a wide range of products for logistics systems: roller and belt conveyors, roller and chain conveyors, transfers, turntables, stackers, and dispensers for handling pallets. “Automated sortation and ‘goods-to-
DAMON has engineers and a sales team to help its customers.
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person’ technology is becoming more widely adapted to meet the increasing volumes to be handled,” Rick says. Some of the intelligent sortation equipment DAMON has developed are horizontal and vertical cross belt sorters, sliding shoe sorters, highspeed steerable wheel sorters and transfers. Rick says they are meant to suit any application. “Our range of rollers are available from 18 mm diameter up to 89 mm in diameter and are used in all types of carton and pallet-handling conveyors,” he says. “We offer a variety of materials such as galvanised steel, zinc-plated steel, stainless steel, aluminium, and PVC,” he adds. “We are also an authorised
Just over a decade ago, DAMON Australia was manufacturing conveyor rollers.
