McCormick Place, Chicago IL March 20-23, 2023
- The hardware products giant EHLIS opened in March its logistics platform in Illescas (Spain), now operational after a few delays due to lack of materials.
- The logistics centre has a rack-supported building and a warehouse with selective pallet racking designed and installed by AR Racking.
- AR Racking has generated with its storage solutions the capacity to house 30,000 and 15,000 pallets respectively.
The hundred-year-old hardware products company EHLIS recently celebrated the launch of its new logistics centre in Illescas (Spain), where AR Racking has played a leading role with the installation of an automated rack-supported building and a warehouse with selective pallet racking. It is a logistics platform that required an investment of 30-35 million euros, and which will complement the one that the hardware leader has in Barcelona.
EHLIS, which this year celebrates its 125th anniversary, has a facility in Illescas that covers a total area of 710,500 ft², of which 430,600 ft² and 236,800 ft² are urbanised and built and where a miniload warehouse is located, plus a 118ft 1in high rack-supported bulding for 30,000 pallets and a warehouse with selective pallet racking with a capacity for 15,000 pallets, the latter two being equipped with AR Racking industrial steel racking systems. The rack-supported building and the warehouse designed with selective pallet racking system cover an area of 34,660 ft², and 88,264 ft², respectively.
Delays in material deliveries, COVID and other matters meant that the launch of the logistics platform did not happen until the first quarter of 2023. A launch which will now improve the service that the company offers to its customers “firstly, by reducing delivery times, and secondly, by increasing the product range”, explained EHLIS’s managers at the opening held at the end of March.
“We have provided our expertise to the EHLIS logistics centre with our technical-logistics advice, our reliability as racking manufacturers and our engineering knowledge through our strong commitment to R&D&I”, commented Manel Bustos, AR Racking sales representative.
The logistics centre in Illescas has a capacity to prepare 1,000 order lines per hour. As confirmed by EHLIS’s management at the opening, the forecast is to increase the number of references with the increase in the logistics capacity. It currently has 16,000 permanent stock references plus a further 3,000 additional ones that fluctuate throughout the year.
AR Racking has a long track record in automated warehouse projects. These are projects that are always developed in collaboration with leading integration engineering companies that provide the automated and robotic means and where AR Racking designs and manufactures all the racking that supports the unit loads and/or building structure itself, such as with rack-supported buildings. Likewise, in the warehouses with industrial steel racking solutions AR Racking fully develops the turnkey project concept, taking care of all the phases that cover the implementation of its storage solutions.
About AR Racking:
AR Racking is part of the Arania Group, an industrial group of companies with extensive experience and scope, and with a multi-sectoral activity based on the transformation of steel that dates back more than 80 years. AR Racking provides the market with a wide range of solutions with high certified quality standards and a comprehensive project management service. AR Racking’s industrial storage systems stand out for their innovation, reliability and optimum efficiency.
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