A new automated storage, stock
control, retrieval and order picking facility accommodating
over 16,000 pallet spaces with 13 automated cranes. The whole
facility is climate controlled
to provide an operating temperature range of 0 oC
- +5oC.
The order picking / dispatch area has pick faces automatically
fed from the storage facility and serving 16 airlocked loading
docks.
The facility is completely computer controlled and linked
into the existing production lines, which operates 24 hours
/ day, 365 days / year.
There is also an integral freezer store linked to the automated
materials handling system which accommodates up to over 3,500
pallets of frozen materials at minus 18 oC - 25
oC.
Ancillary facilities include a new 700m 2 office
/ canteen, a new lorry park accommodating 45 lorries and new
road infrastructure, directly linking the site into the A53.
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