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rifols is a global healthcare
company producing life-saving protein therapies and
products in three healthcare divisions:
bioscience therapy made from human
plasma, hospital products and pharmacy IV solutions, and diagnostic
tools for laboratory professionals.
From their plasma donation centers,
Grifols collects plasma from healthy
and qualified donors to send to one of
three state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities located in
Barcelona, Spain, Los Angeles, California and Clayton, North Carolina.
this new rack-supported building is
equipped with a multi-level redundancy refrigeration system including
nitrogen back up.
construction and operating costs. All
pallets are triple supported, not only
minimizing operational problems, but
also providing additional safety.
Westfalia’s automated storage and
retrieval system (AS/RS), combined
with Savanna.NET® Warehouse Execution System (WES), supports Grifols’
continued innovation in its modern,
state-of-the-art facilities. The AS/RS
occupies 17,273 square feet with 5,148
pallet positions. Standing nine storage
levels high, the three-aisle AS/RS is
equipped with three storage/retrieval
machines (S/RMs), one tandem-pallet
and two single S/RMs.
The tandem-pallet Satellite® system
provides Grifols with more throughput using less machinery, resulting in
lower energy consumption and system
maintenance. The Satellite’s chain conveyor top acts as a conveyor, which can
quickly move pallets from the S/RM
to the conveyor, saving time, and thus,
improving throughput.
Grifols takes pride in innovation.
Understanding innovation comes in
many forms, Grifols is committed to
continuous improvement of its sophisticated, modern facilities. At Grifols,
innovation means finding new ways of
solving old problems, which is where
automated warehousing is now playing
a role in improving global blood plasma logistics. Faced with the need to
expand the storage capacity for frozen
blood plasma to match the recently
increased capacities of the manufacturing facilities, Grifols embarked on
a journey to build a highly automated
plas