After successfully extending a logistics center in Northern Germany together on behalf of end customer JYSK Holding A/S, logistics experts IWL AG and voestalpine Krems Finaltechnik GmbH are again cooperating on a huge logistics complex.
voestalpine Krems Finaltechnik GmbH and logistics consultant IWL AG are once again cooperating on a warehousing complex for the JYSK Group.
Known as DÄNISCHES BETTENLAGER and with over 900 outlets, the company has been present in Germany since 1984, and Austria since 2000. A further 240 outlets in the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, and Spain operate under the international group brand JYSK.
With storage space for a total of 120,000 Euro pallets, this is the first time the company has constructed a warehouse of this scale in a single step. Once operations begin at the start of 2016, the logistics center in Kammlach, Bavaria, will serve around 300 outlets in the south of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Italy. This will make the logistics center the hub for all logistics activities in the Danish company’s rapidly growing southern market. In turn, at the heart of this logistics center is a huge high bay warehouse from voestalpine; constructed in two sections for fire safety reasons, it will be 140 meters in length and another 140 meters in width.
With a volume of over 6,000 tons of steel sections, the high bay warehouse is a major project for voestalpine Krems Finaltechnik GmbH. As with the logistics center in Zarrentin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, picking will be carried out in part by hand at Kammlach. Stacking equipment from the Vorarlberg company LTW Intralogistics automatically stores goods in the 16 aisles and 15 levels of the high bay warehouse. Outgoing goods are manually sorted using a pick-by-voice system. The high bay warehouse contains concrete picking aisles connected to the racking area via fully automated doors. This is where voestalpine Krems Finaltechnik is faced with the structurally challenging task during the engineering phase of channeling the axial force of the rack frames around the tunnels and into the floor anchoring.
The construction of an internal stair tower and maintenance staircase at Kammlach was similarly complex, running partly through the rack frames. These elements, as well as all the other special constructions such as roof binders and stages, and of course the profiled rack elements themselves, are being produced entirely in-house in Krems. Consequently, voestalpine Krems Finaltechnik was able to solve this task efficiently after the contract was awarded in May 2014. Twenty specialists have been working in two shifts since January to assemble the bolted and galvanized construction. The first block was completed in June, and the second 42-meter-high section (6 meters of which is underground) is on schedule for completion by September.
Order volumes, the range of parts, a tight schedule, and minimal assembly tolerances are the complex challenge we are facing. But we are totally on schedule with the work.
Start of assembly: January 2015
Assembly scheduled for completion: September 2015
Dimensions: L = 140m, W = 2 x 70m, H =42m (of which 6m underground)
Storage places in the HBW: approx. 90,206 pallets on 16 aisles and 15 levels
Tonnage: 6,300 tons
