Europe’s largest automated robotic parcel sorting system has been installed in Turkey by the Turkish-owned parcel distribution and postal services company, Kuryenet.

The system was designed and fitted by LiBiao Robotics in conjunction with its Turkish distribution and after-sales support partner, Lodamaster, at the Kuryenet facility in Tuzla, a small town on the outskirts of Istanbul.

As well as being the biggest robot-based sortation system in Europe, the Kuryenet installation is the first of its kind to be deployed in Turkey.

The sortation system, which uses 120 LiBiao Mini Yellow autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to connect over 700 destination chutes with five parcel induction points, has the capacity to process some 45,000 items per hour. 

Thanks to the efficiency and precision of the technology, accuracy of 99.9% is being achieved.

Since the installation of the robot technology, Kuryenet has been able to reduce its labour costs significantly and, furthermore, because the LiBiao robots are highly energy efficient, running costs at the facility have been noticeably cut. 

Furthermore, Kuryenet’s automated robotic sortation system requires just one-fifth of the floor area needed by a traditional conveyor system and the project took just four weeks to complete from start to finish.

“Time is very important in our industry, so the reliability of the robotic system was very attractive to us,” says Derya Aydin, Kuryenet’s assistant general manager of operations.