The Client is a well-known Polish manufacturer of fastening techniques for the construction industry. The company focuses on maintaining the high quality of its products. Therefore, it invests in new technologies and expands its production facilities with top-class European equipment (including presses, rolling mills, and injection moulding machines). The Client regularly invests in its production and currently has four production facilities, with a total area of over 80 thousand square meters, which have more than 300 machines for the production of construction fasteners. Products are sold in more than 60 countries around the world.

THE CHALLENGE

The growing demand for fasteners influenced the decision to invest further in modern machinery. In this way, the factory tripled its production capacity. It increased the demand for unique metal containers transporting semifinished products between plants.

However, things do not always go as we expect. The year 2020 surprised everyone with a pandemic, the effects we feel in all spheres of the economy. Therefore, the Client emphasized optimal management of the company’s finances while not losing opportunities for manufacturing development.

Thus, the Client was faced with whether to buy customized containers or look for another, more flexible solution.

Here are a few stages of the process of creating containers for rent:

1. The customer sent us the dimension and load capacity of the container.
2. We received a detailed product model, based on which we estimated the cost of production of the containers.
3. The prototype was sent to the Client for approval and subjected to the necessary tests on the production floor.
4. After analysing the prototype’s functionality and making some corrections, the decision was made to produce the containers.

The result of intensive work was the creation of robust metal containers with dimensions of 1000x700x770 mm and a load capacity of 800 kg, into which small production components are placed. Then in these containers, they are transported to the galvanizing plant. After the galvanization process, they return to the containers and return to the packaging plant, where they are then sent in cardboard boxes to many places in the world.

The whole process of making the containers was carried out quickly and efficiently. Currently, the Client has 1500 containers working intensively in the production halls.

The client is one of the largest manufacturers of household appliances in Poland. As a division of a multinational corporation, it produces almost one-third of the total volume in the region of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It is a significant player in the market, which develops the production capacity of its factories.

THE CHALLENGE

Continuity of production is a priority

Continuity of production is a priority for the Customer. When a company stops output for two weeks during a holiday season, it does not produce components that need to be available non-stop. Therefore, it is necessary to create a temporary warehouse where elements that are in stock would be stored. Similarly, when the Customer decides to overhaul or maintain the machines, he needs, e.g., to produce not one million but several million components and prepare an appropriate place for storing them.

Random events are yet another situation. Concerning the Customer, a fire broke out in the factory of its sub-supplier (production of rubber elements), and it was necessary to organize a place for storing components in hundreds of Gitterbox baskets.

Why are Gitterboxes the ideal packaging for the manufacturing industry?

Gitterboxes are robust metal packaging used in the industrial and manufacturing sectors. They are commonly used in regular operations as storage rubbish cans for parts and components or as temporary storage when components are rotated between suppliers or within the same plant.