Intralogistics systems
November 2011
Fully automatic coil transport in Hydro aluminium mill
Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products GmbH has commissioned Vollert Anlagenbau to modernise its existing plant in Grevenbroich by designing an end-to-end intralogistics system that automatically loads and unloads lorries, stores up to 4,000 tons of aluminium coil, and uses trolleys with inductive power transfer.
August 2011
E-Mobility for container logistics
Battery-powered, emissions-free transporters that operate without a driver are being used for the first time at HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA). To quickly and frequently exchange the batteries in the onboard battery boxes, which can weigh up to 12 tons, Vollert Anlagenbau developed a fully automated handling station.
March 2011
heroal expanded in an automatic logistics centre
Since January 2011, the German manufacturer for aluminium profile systems „heroal“ has unified with a new logistics centre its working processes such as storage, order-picking and delivery. The impressive high-bay warehouse can store up to 10,000 oblong and 7,000 euro-pallets. Automatic cranes, elevators, chain conveyors and shuttle cars from Vollert Anlagenbau ensure a troublefree material flow within the supply chain.
June 2010
Automatic crane
Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes commissioned Vollert Anlagenbau to carry out the planning and supply of an automatic crane for the transport of cassettes that are filled with steel tubes.
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July 2009
Truck loading: 10,000 beverage crates per hour
Vollert Anlagenbau is supplying a semi-automatic truck-loading station for the South Korean beverage bottler Login Beverage. The special truck loader can load up to 180 pallets with 10,000 beverage crates per hour, thereby replacing three forklifts. Twenty different types of truck are used here.
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March 2009
Space-saving intralogistics for a new anodising plant
Hydro Aluminium Extrusion Deutschland GmbH is using state-of-the-art technology to shore up capacity for anodising aluminium profiles. The new plant in Rackwitz near Leipzig is linked to the existing press shop by a 23 m long, 11 m high steel bridge equipped with an automatic crane. A space-saving solution developed by Vollert has been implemented in the plant for efficiently conveying profile baskets weighing up to 2.5 tonnes.
July 2008
Secure against earthquakes: New high-bay warehouse from Xiashun handles 800 aluminium coils
Vollert Anlagenbau GmbH from Weinsberg is developing a complete intralogistics system with a fully automatic high-bay warehouse for Asia’s leading aluminium foil manufacturer. This order from China, with a total volume of around €13 million, is no easy task: the warehouse, with a capacity of around 14,000 tons, is in one of the most earthquake-prone areas of the world and must be able to withstand shocks of strengths 5 to 6 on the Richter scale. The new production facilities mean that Xiashun is in a position to supply litho material of the best quality.
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July 2008
SSAB stores up to 6,000 tons of steel in a high-bay warehouse
Steel-maker SSAB in Oxelösund produces steel plates at a rapid rate. The information as to which plate is for which customer is only available three minutes before production starts. The logistics system must react correspondingly quickly. Vollert Anlagenbau from Weinsberg provided a solution by changing over from ground-level storage to the use of a high-bay warehouse with two so-called MEGA automatic storage and retrieval machines that allow short cycle times despite loads weighing several tons.
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March 2008
Caution, People Hard At Work!
When others are running out of steam, the engineers at Vollert Anlagenbau are just getting into their stride, specialising in intralogistics systems for heavy goods – especially for the metalworking industry. For the aluminium extrusion works of apt Hiller for example, Vollert developed a fully automated intralogistics system which facilitates an end-to-end material flow from the extrusion works to the processing department and then on to the downstream anodising plant and newly constructed shipping warehouse.
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March 2008
A Dream Car Every Minute
Two stacker cranes in a high-bay racking warehouse supplied by Vollert Anlagenbau of Weinsberg ensure a fresh supply of new cars every day at the new BMW Welt in Munich. The short-stay warehouse provides 284 storage positions on four levels and is located 12 metres deep down in the belly of the huge delivery hall. From here, the cars are moved fully automatically to the so-called Premiere Arena – the centrepiece of BMW Welt – for presentation and collection..
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January 2007
Vollert in the Aluminium Low-Pressure Foundry
In the course of the extension of the production of aluminum motor blocks in the low-pressure casting process the KS Aluminium-Technologie AG in Neckarsulm charged the Vollert GmbH + Co. KG, the specialists for intra-logistics systems for metals, with the design, supply and installation of a fully automated foundry furnace transport system..
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2006
Not just perfect delivery – Vollert Anlagenbau, the intralogistics specialist
from Weinsberg, also stands for the start of production on schedule
In the aluminium rolling mill of Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH in Grevenbroich, 14 tons of heavy aluminium coils are held temporarily in a high-bay warehouse to cool down and for subsequent additional processing. The heart of the entire intralogistics system is an automatic storage and retrieval machine that is 26 metres high and connects 32 annealing furnaces with the rolling mill.
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2005
The heaviest coil manipulators for the production of aluminium strip
The rising demand for aluminium strips impelled ALCOA-KÖFÉM KFT. to set up a new strip rolling line in the KÖFÉM plant in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. ACHENBACH BUSCHHÜTTEN GMBH, the specialist for rolling mills, was given an order from ALCOA in 2005 for the supply of a line to produce aluminium strips of up to 1,700 mm in width with a thickness of 0.04 mm.
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2005
High-bay storage facility for metal sheets
At the Neff company in Bretten, a leading manufacturer of kitchen cookers and extractor hoods, the task was to supply the four existing laser cutting plants with sheet material and to take it away afterwards.
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2004
Storing and distributing 70,000 tons
ThyssenKrupp tailored blanks from Duisburg – Hüttenheim produces precut metal sheets of various thicknesses and with various surface or steel properties within one sheet for the automotive industry. This is done by welding together the various sheets.
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2003
Conveying and storage technology in a press plant
Modern press plants with their high-tech facilities guarantee nowadays that top quality is attained in the subsequent further processing of the pressed parts. In the automotive industry, sheets of various thickness and materials are processed fully automatically at a blazing speed, meaning that all the work from the coil to the finished pressed part is done with a minimal amount of human intervention.
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2001
Automatic crane system for long items
Viegain Großheringen, a manufacturer of valves and fittings, planned an extension of its production capacity but did not want to increase the existing hall area. They increased the number of casting machines from six to twelve to achieve this. The transport of loose rod material made of gunmetal (length approx. 4 m, maximum weight of 2 t, maximum rod temperature of 300°C), which had formerly been done exclusively by hand, was to be automated. The manual hall crane that had been used up to then could not carry out such a task.
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2001
Tilting table for transformer sheets
Siemens in Nuremberg, a manufacturer of transformers, planned an extension of its production capacity in the field of transformer core assembly. The large cores of transformers for power stations are produced here. The former solution, in which the installed core was set up with the aid of the existing 850-ton hall crane and a special crossbeam, was to be replaced by a new tipping device to be supplied.
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