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After installing baggage handling systems throughout North America and Canada, Fabricom Airport Systems Inc. is returning to its roots after winning a prestigious Inline baggage screening project at its home city of Louisville, Kentucky.
FAS Inc. was awarded the contract, which is worth $4.77 million (around £2.6 million), to update and upgrade Louisville International’s outbound baggage handling and screening facilities by General Contractor, King Construction Inc, after facing stiff competition from other leading baggage system integrators.
King Construction, which is working for Louisville Regional Airport Authority, is also involved in renovating and expanding the present baggage handling system area; they will be constructing two new buildings, adjoining the existing terminal, in order to hold the new baggage handling equipment.
FAS Inc. will install the baggage system in two major phases and numerous sub-phases, in order to avoid any airline disruption and to take into account the supply of two separate, but similar systems to be installed in the new West side and East side terminal baggage handling areas. Phase one on the West side will be finished by Spring 2006, while phase two is scheduled for completion in Autumn 2006.
Gary Downs, Vice President of Sales of Fabricom Airport Systems Inc, commented: “It is a great honour to be working with our local airport. We will be providing a wide range of FAS manufactured products, including conveyors, high speed ploughs, merges, vertical sortation and slope plate units that have helped to bring down the price because we do not have to source these components from outside suppliers."
The project provides for the modification, removal, replacement and installation of new baggage handling equipment that will effectively create two (one for the west terminal side and one for the east terminal side) centralised type of inline security screening systems and two centralised outbound make-up areas.
Bags will be conveyed to an Explosive Detection Area for screening with built in redundancy for out of gauge bags and accumulation queues. Screening is enhanced through the installation of five eXaminer 3DX-6000 series EDS machines and the use of OSR (On Screening Resolution) technology to enhance the rate that bags will be screened.
This Transportation Security Administration (TSA) project was funded by a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The baggage handling system forms part of Louisville Airport’s overall $41 million terminal renovation, which includes the installation of a real-time Flight Information Display System, upgraded air-conditioning and ventilation systems, and many aesthetic enhancements throughout the airport.
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