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GA Pet Food Partners delighted with large-scale plastic pallet box delivery for automated facility
Goplasticpallets.com has just completed one of its most challenging pallet box deliveries to date, delivering a whopping 19,750 plastic pallet boxes to Europe’s leading manufacturer of own label premium dry pet foods, GA Pet Food Partners.
GA approached Goplasticpallets.com looking for a large container that would work seamlessly in a fully automated system that was being designed as part of an enormous new facility being built, representing the pinnacle of the company’s development in dry pet food production.
Making up dry pet food to customers’ specific batch requirements ranging from three to 200 tonnes whilst handling many different ingredients is a labour-intensive process. The use of containers within the new, highly-sophisticated automated system would allow GA to cut overheads to operate a much leaner business and significantly speed up the production process.
Having spent considerable time consulting with GA discussing exactly how the containers would be used, Goplasticpallets.com recommended its largest plastic pallet box – the 1400 litre GoPalletBox 1311S 3r measuring 1300mm x 1150mm – which due to its incredible strength is ideal for bulk handling and has a proven track record in automation. The boxes were supplied with lids, which were specially designed for use in the automated process.
GA ordered 19,750 of the plastic pallet boxes in three different colours; 14,000 in blue for storing finished cooked material, 5,000 in red for storing raw materials and 750 in green for other internal use. Together the boxes offer a tremendous storage capacity of 27.65 million litres – the equivalent of 11 Olympic-sized swimming pools!
During production, each box was fitted with a writable RFID tag to record the source of the ingredients and the batch date of the pet food within the container, which would provide GA’s customers with full traceability of all raw ingredients.
The admin team at Goplasticpallets.com had a huge task on their hands managing the project for GA both coordinating production with CABKA_IPS, the manufacturer in Belgium and organising delivery schedules with LKW WALTER, its transport organisation for the Europe-wide full truckloads.