Within 8 weeks, stow delivered and installed a Pal Rack® pallet racking system for Bleckmann in the UK. The installation is 12 metres high and helped create no less than 12600 picking levels.
Bleckmann is a leading logistics provider serving various clients, stretching from fast growing online-first retail brands up to well-established international players, particularly in the fashion and lifestyle industries. Their distribution centres are spread across the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom, with a local presence in the United States.
stow has been a major supplier of Bleckmann for years, with a number of successful projects done in the UK. Bleckmann considers stow to be a front-runner in the logistics field.
The project was carried out in the Bleckmann warehouse in Bury St. Edmonds (UK).
There were several major challenges to overcome:
The biggest challenge, however, was completing the project within the specified time. “If you consider the conditions under which we carried out the work, it was quite a challenge,” says Neil Robbins, Project Manager with stow UK.
Within 8 weeks, stow delivered and installed a Pal Rack® pallet racking system. The installation is 12 metres high and helped create no less than 12600 picking levels in a VNA (very narrow-aisle) operation with single sided 1200 mm deep racks, hand loaded with boxes from both sides from man-lifting trucks.
stow was able to deliver the project in-time and within budget.
It was a task done in impossible conditions and with an impossible timeline.”
Sven Amerijckx, Sales Director, stow UK
The stow project manager on site was very co-operative and constructive and the collaboration with the local Bleckmann team was excellent.
Mark Noblett, Project Manager, Bleckmann
stow was able to deliver the project in-time and within budget.
Mark Noblett, Project Manager, Bleckmann
About stow Pal Rack®■
The stow PalRack® system consists of a full range of basic components and accessories to fulfil all individual requirements. The system is designed for the optimised storage of goods of all sizes and weights. The system is modular and can be easily adjusted to a customers’ needs. It can be combined with numerous types of lifting equipment, minimising aisle widths and thus maximising storage capacity. Besides pallet storage, picking activities can be integrated easily, both on ground level and through intermediate flooring levels.