High and lightweight. Or heavy, long and horizontal. As a manufacturer of plastic packaging, packaging film and film packaging, you have special requirements when it comes to transporting and storing unusual formats and load units. Film rolls can be real heavyweights. The good news: Our technologies are designed for high storage capacity and density. We make your intralogistics look as light as the material you use to protect food and other products.
In close cooperation with our customers in the packaging industry, we have been developing, building, maintaining, and modernizing outstanding automated high-bay warehouses and conveyor systems since 1971. They store particularly gently. Come up with customized storage profiles. And transport plastic packaging materials to production, storage and shipping at lightning speed.
Warehouse logistics for packaging
As a general contractor, we consult, design and build turnkey storage and logistics systems as stand-alone logistics systems or integrated into existing facilities. We modernize and maintain existing in-house and third-party systems. At our headquarters in Borgholzhausen, Germany, we design and manufacture key components of our storage and materials handling technology, including the control system, and implement them with our own software and the necessary IT infrastructure.
Your challenge: Packaging often has a high raw material content of up to 70 percent. Volatile raw material prices increase costs when there is no buffer stock. Manual warehouses expand, forklift traffic and transportation routes increase. This also costs money and increases safety risks.
Our solution: Raw materials, such as rolls of foil, can be stored perfectly sorted and as densely as possible on several levels in multi-deep rack channels. They are accessed by a single storage and retrieval machine. If required, rolls can be stored without pallets in special storage space profiles. Fewer aisles and SRMs reduce construction and operating costs and space requirements while providing enormous capacity. These buffers cushion against fluctuating purchase prices or supply shortages. One software solution manages and controls the warehouse and delivers raw materials just-in-time.
Growing stable and plannable? Find out more in our White Paper Packaging
Your challenge: Consumers and investors measure companies by their sustainability. This includes lean, energy-efficient manufacturing processes. Manual bulk storage of semi-finished products requires many forklifts and must grow in size to keep up with productivity. This prevents them from being directly linked to production. Travel distances, energy and time required for production increase.
Our solution: Automated intermediate storage concentrates capacity in the tightest of spaces right at the production lines. For many formats, load carriers or even without pallets. SRM and conveyor technology provide semi-finished products quickly and appropriately for production. Despite high sustainability requirements, costs remain stable. Costly setup times are reduced by intelligently delaying and bundling production. This is made possible by automated high-capacity intermediate storage.
Setting the logistical course? More on this in our White Paper Packaging
Your challenge: The variety of plastic packaging is growing. The industry is experimenting with new and sustainable materials. This also increases the capacity requirements and complexity of warehousing for packaging products. Manual warehouses would require more personnel and forklifts, with a higher risk of accidents, errors, and congestion.
Our solution: High capacity, small footprint, few vehicles, route-efficient control and energy-efficient drives are the hallmarks of our high-bay warehouses. But also the Westfalia central block when a warehouse has at least two aisles. The center of the block is not divided, so each channel can be individually divided between the two aisles. And when one SRM is being serviced, the second can service all channels.
Automate reliably and flexibly? More on this in our White Paper Packaging
Advanced warehouses for new packaging
Automated storage and logistics systems can help you prepare for the future. And quickly meet the demand for new advanced packaging. By solving complex logistics. Contribute to greater sustainability in sourcing, production, and shipping. Reduce production costs. Our high-performance storage systems keep pace with powerful production machines and easily accommodate growing product variety. Without congestion. For satisfied customers and top quality.
Sustainability comes from resource-efficient and error-free processes. Our storage systems for plastic and film packaging are valuable building blocks that fit seamlessly into existing systems and processes. Gently and with the longest system life. This allows your company to grow economically and efficiently, just like our customer VF Verpackungen GmbH (LINK). We look forward to your inquiry and will be happy to advise you. Our sustainability goals (LINK)
Our solutions and products
To the overview: References from the packaging industry
