Business Innovation

In the recent Tauranga Business Awards, Innovation and Health and Safety were highlighted as key factors in business success.

Dexion Storage Solutions

With the seasonal nature of their work, Eastpack was driven to take the challenge of new technology and apply it to their business needs.

This has paid off with Eastpack taking the top prize of Business of the year for the Tauranga region, and more importantly will continue to pay off with increased efficiency and much safer processes for years to come.

Well, what has changed with their business this year? Is the innovation we are talking about significant? This is a resounding yes.

The changes Eastpack has made in their storage handling systems is the biggest step forward since the introduction of shuttle racking systems. This article will briefly explain how they are doing this.

At the Quarry road kiwifruit processing and storage facility, DEXION was contracted to design and put to work a better storage and materials handling system. The result is the first ASRS system in the Bay and the first with Kiwifruit in New Zealand.

 

 

In simple terms, we have built a building with one conveyor in, and one conveyor out. Inside the building, an automated crane picks the pallets off the conveyor and stores them at a height nearly double what has been able to be achieved in the bay up till now.

And then the system will steadily feed you your pallets on the out conveyor in the order you want them.

The benefits are immediate. Strict temperature control, precise storage/ picking, more storage per square metre and fewer workers involved.

In fact, the system stops and waits if someone opens the door.

 

Storage and materials handling is an area of high interest for any business handling a lot of stock, and any businesses in this area wanting to keep up will be looking to the example Eastpack has set choosing DEXION to provide the solution to set them ahead in their industry.

We are very proud as Dexion Supply Centre BOP to be part of the storage and materials handling leading company in New Zealand, and in particular to have been the team to install this racking.

Link to article;

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=12284095

Cheers,

Scott Reardon

Operations

Dexion Supply Centre BOP

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Comvita this year, opened a high-tech facility for storing its Raw and Processed Honey products.

Our brief in this instance was superior racking technology, in particular strength and seismic tolerance.
The value of Product which will be stored in these rooms is staggering and near irreplaceable.

Our Uprights in this room are 120mm wide E type extra heavy duty and the Beams are a full 40mm thicker than standard. When fully loaded and tested the deflection was less than half the acceptable tolerance with Pallets nearing two tons each in weight – meaning a very high level of redundant strength in the system.

Additionally, to address the seismic issue the Baseplates we use are unlike others in the market - heavy 10mm steel of a design which allows a degree of movement and recovery in event of floor movement.

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Comvita like to hold tours of their facility so a high standard of cosmetic appearance was also required and delivered.

Coda Rolleston, this is the second Facility we have fitted Racking for Coda, the other being Saville Drive in Auckland to a similar design.

It’s 10.5m high and has about 5000 pallet positions. It went through an extremely stringent engineering review due to its location, which it passed without issue.

At the completion Coda manager, Mike passed down the line that he would halve our target timeframe for the next one, seeing as it was finished ahead of time again (joking I hope).

Coda was having a grand opening, so we pushed through to finish a couple of days ahead of the scheduled completion, so Coda had some time to load the racking and make some floor space for their grand opening.

Kaiaponi Farms This is the first Satellite (Automated Shuttle pallet movement system) we have built-in Gisborne. Shuttles replaced drive-in racking with significant advantages of high-density storage while still having a good range of SKUs, less manpower, and smarter location recording systems.

Shuttles are in very high demand in cool store applications and you will now find them all over the country accordingly.

Eastpack It is fair to say Eastpack is one of the most ambitious racking projects undertaken in New Zealand and as market leaders Dexion are the ones to do it.

The concept is a cold storage room where pallets go in on a conveyor, are automatically distributed inside the room and are fed out in the order required – without humans going into the room at all.

Intelligent computer programs understand what is required in what order and distribute pallets accordingly.

More specifically inside the room, the system is 12 meters high with the highest density per meter of storage of anyone in the Bay. It is a crane/conveyor combined with a shuttle that is the next logical step in smarter storage solutions. Interest from many parties in this project is high.

We are pleased our crews were selected to install this as the tolerances were much higher than standard racking, which we have demonstrated can be achieved with the right team even on a limited timeframe.