Store at 24 degrees below zero
Compact warehouse for deep-freeze logisticians
The general contractor Westfalia Logistics Solutions Europe has realized a fully automated deep-freeze warehouse for the Dutch deep-freeze specialist Kloosterboer Lelystad B.V.. Since the beginning of the year, food products have been stored in Lelystad at minus 24 degrees Celsius.
The distribution center is the second that Kloosterboer has had built by Westfalia. The company wants to use it to optimize the supply chain to its customers and make it more sustainable. It also aims to significantly reduce road transportation and cut carbon dioxide emissions.
Retrieving up to 260 pallets per hour
Four storage and retrieval machines enable efficient storage and retrieval in the high-bay warehouse. According to the company, 180 Euro, industrial or CHEP pallets can be stored per hour and 260 pallets can be retrieved per hour. This is controlled by the Savanna.Net warehouse management software.
Sequencing buffer for more performance
The storage solution consists of an automated high-bay warehouse and a flatter storage area, the High Performance Sequencing Buffer. The latter offers space for around 700 pallets. Designed as satellite warehouses, both warehouses are particularly compact. The High Performance Sequencing Buffer significantly increases the performance of the system: replenishment, picking and loading are controlled here in a single step. The load units are put together at night, and once the buffer is full, retrieval begins early in the morning. In this way, more than 20 truckloads are put together. The connection to an automatic loading system ensures a fully automated process. "This warehouse is automated to the maximum and therefore extremely efficient," says Adrian Pfreundschuh, responsible project manager for software and IT at Westfalia, referring to the new warehouse building for frozen food specialist Kloosterboer Lelystad B.V.
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