For all parts – great and small
January 1st 2008 Using a variety of racking and shelving,
Spaceway has met the storage challenge
posed by Buhler Sortex, a company
wanting to accommodate a diversity of
products – from large machine casings to
small fixings
The regeneration of East
London ahead of the 2012
Olympic Games is providing
work for many UK companies,
among them Spaceway Group
which has just completed the fitting
out of Buhler Sortex's new
distribution centre.
Buhler Sortex, provided optical
sorting machinery for the food
processing industry and has
recently relocated to a new site. It
chose Spaceway for its design
skills and competitive pricing.
Spaceway, in turn, selected BITO
Storage Systems as its partner for
the project and the two companies
worked closely to provide Buhler
Sortex with an impressive and
extremely functional facility.
Spaceway's team set about
creating a design that would turn
the 1035m2 area into a state-ofthe-
art distribution centre that
would enable Buhler Sortex to
introduce a product rotation
system that would ensure
components are used in the
correct batch order.
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able to ensure that the integration
of a range of pallet racking, carton
live racking and shelving would
fuse together to provide the
optimum storage system.
Spaceway designed the storage
system taking into consideration
the diversity of products to be
stored. Ceiling height was
considered and every chance to
use space was built into the
design. Eighteen lanes of pallet live
racking have been designed to
carry large fixtures two deep, while
474 pallets can be accommodated
in standard pallet racking. Long
tube pigeonhole locations
accommodate articles such as
fluorescent tubes up to 1.8m long
and carton live storage is used to
accommodate a variety of boxes.
Inclusion of a large number of
two deep Carton Live locations
enables Buhler Sortex to use a
Kanban principle to ensure stock
rotation and constant supply.
To complete the project,
Spaceway provided a wide range
of containers, from bulk storage to
small parts, which were all printed
and coloured to match the
company's corporate colours.
Spaceway's designs have
enabled efficient and easy access
to the products and have catered
for future expansion, using the full
height of the building.
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