About UNI TED CAPS
UNITED CAPS is a leader in the design and
production of plastic caps and closures.
Based in Luxembourg, this family business
offers innovative solutions worldwide and
has production facilities in France, Belgium,
Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg,
and Spain.
The company, which achieved a turnover of
132;million US dollars in 2015 and employs
more than 530 workers, has a product portfolio with more than 600 different caps and
closures.
The solution: the automatic
Pallet Shuttle
Given its relentless growth, UNITED CAPS
needed a warehouse that would grant them
the highest possible storage capacity without losing accessibility to the different SKUs
and, at the same time, would allow a maximum, speedy flow of goods.
To do so, Mecalux designed and installed a
high-density warehouse with the automatic
Pallet Shuttle system with stacker cranes, as
well as the implementation of management
software.
Two stacker cranes are responsible for moving the load between the entrances/ex-its of the warehouse and the channels of
the racks, offering agility and strict control
of the goods, within this fully automated
installation.
A transfer car is set up at the front of the
warehouse, which is used to connect the
conveyor circuit with the stacker cranes.
When the operator deposits a pallet in one
of the input stations of the conveyor circuit, the Easy Mecalux WMS reads the SKU
it contains and takes on its internal control
and management.
Parts of the UNI TED CAPS warehouse:
A. A high-density system with an automa-
tic Pallet Shuttle
B. Stacker cranes
C. Transfer car
D. Input conveyors
E. Output conveyors
F. Area with full pallet stacker and empty
pallet stacker
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