SAICA Improves Customer Service with Pesmel Automated Roll Warehouse
Kauhajoki, Finland 14 August 2017 -- Pesmel will supply world largest to be paper mill rack type automated roll warehouse (ARW) to SAICA Paper's El Burgo de Ebro mill located near Zaragoza in Spain. This mill produces with three paper machines board grades 1,300,000 tons annually. The new ARW will also store and distribute rolls from SAICA Zaragoza mill. TransRoll concept selected The heart of this new system layout is Pesmel's TransRoll automated roll warehouse (ARW) concept, which has dozen in-out connections at different floor levels between the mill production and shipping operations. It can take production in 24/7 in random order as it comes from production, and distribute it out to 6 + 6 truck loading stations according desired truckload combinations. On an average day 200 - 250 trucks will visit at the loading docks. Trucks arrival happens in random order, and system guarantees truck specific load ready to be loaded within 20 min after truck reports to the mill gate. Pesmel is global supplier of highly automated internal logistic, storing (AS/RS) and packing systems for thepaper and converting industries. During the four decades Pesmel has delivered over 400 handling and packing projects and around 120 storage systems with more than 200 stacker cranes. The company employs over 200 professionals, of which abt. 120 is situated in Finland. SAICA Group is a leading company in Spain in the manufacturing of corrugating board with a capacity of 2.5 million tons of paper. With more than 9,000 employees at present in Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom, Ireland, Turkey, Luxemburg and The Netherlands. SAICA Group has four business areas: paper mills (Paper), collection of recyclable materials (Natur) corrugated paper pack containers (Pack) and flexible packaging (Flex). Consolidate sales of the Company are 2,378 million euros (31.12.2015).
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