ECE-LOG, BT-Anlagenbau's intra-logistics competence centre, took on the challenge to plan and build a fully automated high-bay warehouse for Paloma as general contractor in a very confined space and put it into operation by the end of May 2024, after a construction period of just 8 months.
Paloma, a SHP Group company with a 150-year tradition in paper manufacturing in Europe, is the market leader in South-East Europe. Every year, up to 87,000 tonnes of hygiene paper products such as toilet paper, paper towels and tissues are produced, most of which are exported. Paloma's location speaks for itself: Right on the border with Austria, on an important transport route and right next to the river Mur. However, these advantages were precisely what made constructing a new high-bay warehouse so difficult. The site is very restricted by the transport network and the river, but an extension was urgently needed.
The solution was both sophisticated and ingenious. ECE-LOG builds the new warehouse on top of the newly constructed production hall. This also allowed the assembly of the palletising system, the material flow system and the racking system to begin at the same time.
The first of the two production lines was handed over to the customer just 2 months after the start of assembly. Since then, this line has been producing hygiene paper products 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and preparing these finished pallets for dispatch to the customer or transport to an external warehouse in the new loading area.
Among other things, 1,800 tonnes of steel, 13,750 m2 of façade panels, 5,200 m2 of roofing, 12,000 sprinkler heads and 19 kilometres of sprinkler pipes have already been installed. 55 switch and control cabinets with some 25 kilometres of cable control 96 conveyor elements with a total of 159 drives.
The new high-bay warehouse offers a total of approx. 24,760 gross storage spaces. Following impressive test results, the latest generation of the trolley-mover combination will soon be entering service here.
Since the main assembly of the shelving system with 10 levels was completed in mid-January despite considerable delivery bottlenecks, completion is on schedule for the end of May 2024.
The management is proud to be successfully implementing a project like Paloma with our wide-ranging experts and would like to thank ECE-LOG, the project manager Mr. Bojan Lazar and his team.
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