PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2014

BOTTLING / FILLING 23 PET planet insider Vol. 15 No. 11/14 www.petpla.net Hall 7A | Booth 503 April 2013 saw APU commis- sion the APW System C (Crane) high-bay warehouse from Krones, following eleven months’ construc- tion. It is 83m long, 21m wide and 23m tall and has space for 9,240 pallet slots on twelve levels, with 70 two-deep slots on the longitudinal axis. The high-bay warehouse has been dimensioned for four serving aisles, three of which have already been equipped with one storage and retrieval unit each. The fourth aisle, incorporated in the layout so the warehouse can be extended to more than 11,000 slots, remains an option for the future. The warehouse has been equipped with spe- cially-designed insulation, to enable it to cope with temperatures that swing from minus 40°C in winter to +40°C in summer. Ninety- two automatically supplied order-picking workplaces on a descending roller conveyor are served by two trans- fer travelling carriages. An additional 82 manual work- places handle order-picking C-articles. Dispatch orders and palletising are controlled by APU’s ERP (enterprise resource planning) system, with individual order-picking instructions transmitted to personalised handheld termi- nals via W-LAN. The fourth project, a “greenfield” 250,000hl brew- ery, was designed and con- structed at the same time as the warehouse. It has been designed with the capacity to expand up to twice its cur- rent size, which will give APU potential brewing capacity of up to a million hectolitres. Its energy, environmental impact and and low operating costs were designed to meet ISO14001 standards. “Our strategic focus for the next five years is clear”, says Board Chair- man Tseveenjav Erdenebileg. “We want to maintain market leadership in all our product categories, while also further upsizing our market share for soft drinks and milk. For beer, in particular, we’re anticipat- ing further diversification as far as consumer tastes go, which we’re already helping along with Kalten- berg wheat beer, for example.” www.krones.com