A new deep-freeze warehouse is being built at pet food industry supplier Badenhop Fleischwerke’s plant in Verde, near Bremen. G+H Kühllager- und Industriebau (KIB) has been awarded a major contract on this project. In fact, since 2013 KIB has been successful again and again with its bids here: this is the 6th contract it has won in a row.
The present contract involves the roof and wall cladding, the entire floor construction including an 80 cm-thick floor slab, and the installation of doors and gates in the product handling and handling areas. The extending of the deep-freeze, high rack warehouse in a separate building will create 18,000 pallet storage positions occupying a floor area of 2,800 m² to a height of 32 m.
Regarding Badenhop, which was founded in 1871:
The energy efficiency of the new, fully-automated deep-freeze warehouse has DIN ISO 50001 certification and the building’s own photovoltaic installation covers much of its energy consumption.
At present, the deep-freeze warehouse provides 16,000 pallet storage locations (more could be added), which are loaded via a fully-automated unloading direction. In the course of the fully-automated retrieval process, there is a change of pallet from the plastic “in-house” pallet to a customer-specific pallet in preparation for onward transportation to one of the five loading ramps.
The pallet conveyor system developed by Badenhop is based on a plastic pallet, its base material being a food-safe recycled material. Freely-programmable chips are implanted diagonally alongside the specially-shaped cover plate. These are provided with the unique relevant product and production data relating to each individual pallet, which are recorded and tracked in the logistical process by contact-free sensors, in order to ensure complete traceability.
