Univeyor A/S to supply new shuttle storage to Swedish Hilton Food Group

The Danish company Univeyor A/S, who is a manufacturer of solutions for material handling and internal logistics, is to supply fully automated raw material storage to Hilton Food Group’s food packing facility in Sweden.

At the time when Hilton Food Group (HFG) built the food packing facility in Västerås, Sweden, in 2004, it already included Europe’s largest and most modern equipment. Now this system is added a new fully automated raw material storage.

Market leading in Europe
Hilton Food Group plc, listed at the London Stock Exchange, is one of Europe’s leading special-ists within the processing and packing of meat. HFG supplies meat to major international food retailers, i.e. Tesco, Ahold, Albert Heijn and ICA from state-of-the-art facilities in the UK, Ireland, Holland, Poland and Sweden.

Fully automated shuttle storage
HFG in Sweden supplies packets of meat to the Swedish retailer ICA. At the location of the com-pany’s food packing facility in Västerås, a new fully automated shuttle storage will be added to establish a raw material storage working as a buffer storage for meat before being cut out and packed.

Energy-optimised solution
A shuttle storage is characterized by its special applicability as a high-volume storage with few article numbers. At the same time, a shuttle storage is extremely compact, being essential to the energy consumption, because the temperature in the hall must be 0 degrees Celsius out of con-sideration for the shelf-life and hygiene.

Automated stacking function
Not only the shuttle storage has been automated. The articles rest in reusable transport bins, stacked on pallets with 4 stacks of each 8 bins. Univeyor supplies a system with automated de-stacking. Furthermore, empty pallets are stacked in stacks of each 17 pallets, whereupon the pallets are strapped and conveyed by the associated conveying system – all in a fully automated process.

Advanced warehouse management system
Univeyor has also supplied and implemented an advanced WMS system, communicating directly with Hilton Food Group’s existing ERP system. When the raw materials enter the storage, the storing process includes the checking of weights and bar codes. This ensures a match between the actual contents of the bins, the description in documents and the existing recording of the storage system.

Intelligent logistics solutions
Univeyor supplies innovative solutions for automated handling and logistics, based on thorough analyses of each company. Whether a complete solution or a small upgrade is required, we make sure that our customers can act efficiently towards their customers. We have no standard solutions – only individually customised solutions based on well-proven standard equipment.

Univeyor in front – also locally
Univeyor has major, competitive customers from a wide variety of industries, and we are con-stantly challenged to present new and innovative solutions. We have a strong team of dedicated and experienced experts, always working to setting the agenda through the application of the newest technology.