Borealis, a leading producer of environmentally superior polyolefin plastics in Sweden, has successfully appliedrnAGV technology to their finished goods warehouse function. The application includes automatic transportation ofrnpalletized loads from their packing lines to their finished goods warehouse and then on to marshalling/staging areasrnat the shipping docks. In their warehouse, the loads are stacked two high, one on top of another, without the use ofrnpallet racking.rnA highly accurate and repeatable forklift type AGVS is used to accomplish the transportation, storage and retrievalrnof loads. The total capacity of the warehouse is 12,500 storage locations and the warehouse is managed by arnWarehouse Management System (WMS) software system. The AGVS provides fully automated handling of loadsrnfrom the palletizer / stretch-wrapper output into storage, out of storage and onto the dock for manual loading ontorntrailers. The key to the success of this application is the ability of the AGVS to stack and unstack pallet loadsrnwithout the use of racking.
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