Product sector: Tissue products
Location: Montoro (Avellino - Italy)
Cartiera Confalone is a leading Italian producer of tissue products with more than a century of experience. The pallets of finished product are stored in the new facility in Montoro in the province of Avellino. When Cartiera Confalone contacted the Wipro Ferretto, it needed to consolidate the storage of finished products in a single logistics hub, so as to eliminate traceability issues, speed up shipping operations, and optimize production and inventory control.
The Wipro Ferretto met all of these requirements by designing and building a self-supporting automatic storage system that spans an area of 6,800 m2. The storage system is almost 23 m high and has a capacity of 22,320 pallet spaces distributed over 6 multi-depth loading levels. Four battery-powered satellite stacker cranes move the pallets in and out of the system, ensuring the simultaneous management of an inbound flow of 100 pallets and an outbound flow of 100 pallets per hour.
The pallets are conveyed with a roller conveyor system to a circuit of Fast Ring monorail steering shuttles that feed the stacker cranes operating along the aisles of the storage system. The incoming pallets are distributed equally on the 4 stacker cranes to ensure constant availability of material and to obtain maximum flexibility for order preparation activities. The Fast Ring shuttle circuit also manages the unit loads to be shipped, positioning the products on 10 loading bays made up of roller conveyors. Each loading bay is made up of 3 outlets able to accommodate a complete load.
The new storage system fully met the customer's needs by optimizing product management and traceability, reducing running costs, and speeding up the preparation of orders with a view to improving customer service.