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Witor's

Sector: Food - Sweets

Place: Cremona - Italy

Ferretto Group's automatic storage system for business growth
Witor's, leading Italian manufacturer of chocolate products with international appeal, has chosen Ferretto Group to supply its new self-supporting automatic storage system so as to optimize the updated integrated logistics of the entire plant.

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Objectives:

Supply an automatic storage system to be located in the new picking/shipping area.
Ensure the integration of flows between production and shipping of both the finished product and semi-finished product.
Optimize storage according to product seasonality ensuring that production and logistic requirements coincide.
Increase shipping performance by reducing wait times and increasing flexibility in fulfilling the numerous shipments due to the growth in the number of customers spread out around the world.

Solution:

Automatic self-supporting storage system connected to production/shipping to support the operations in both areas.
Shuttle units to feed the storage and retrieval (S/R) stacker cranes to maximize the potential of the system.
Staggered double depth racking.

Technical characteristics:

16°C air conditioned warehouse with special attention to temperature control through adequate insulation.
Integrated racking and air conditioning system through careful design.

Added value:

The storage system was designed to respond to the growth of the company, ensuring excellent storage and performance capabilities for the foreseeable future.
The picking/shipment area was reorganized with traditional racking and an area dedicated to manual palletizing, suitably integrated with a wrapping machine and an input line to feed the automatic storage system.
The solution provided meets all customer's seasonal needs despite the particularly high structure.

The warehouse in figures:

Total capacity

13,776

pallets

Total surface area

2,500

Self-supporting storage system height

34.50

meters

S/R stacker cranes

Shuttle units to feed the stacker cranes