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Increasing the Stack Height of Palletised Canned Beer to Reduce Warehousing Costs
10 July 2009
Challenge
To evaluate the opportunity and safety of stacking canned beer products four pallets high in the warehouse.
Approach
A major UK brewer consulted Pira regarding the possibility of increasing the utilisation of existing warehousing through increasing beer can pallet stack heights from three to four high pallet loads. Substantial contract warehousing costs would be avoidable if such pallet stacking were possible and safe.
Pira Consulting conducted a thorough investigation of the loads encountered by individual beer cans in three and four pallet high stacks of pallet load canned beer. A number of variables were investigated including can type, can location in pallet, product type, offset loading conditions and stack construction/deconstruction (effect of fork-lift operations).
Load cells and dummy cans were manufactured, and bespoke measurement equipment produced for the work. Complimentary warehouse and laboratory testing was conducted using the measurement apparatus and real product, covering static and dynamic load measurement.
Recommendation
As a result of the work the UK brewer was able to stack pallets four high for a number of products within their range, whilst for some products the study revealed that this would be unsafe.
Benefit
The brewer was able to minimise the use and costs associated with additional contract warehousing through peak season.
What's New
25 January 2012
The global packaging industry will swell to almost $820 billion by 2016 predicts Pira International in a new market forecast. Driven mainly by increasing demand for packaging in emerging and transitional economies, a 3% per annum growth rate will focus on board products and rigid plastics, with $40 billion and $33 billion in cumulative predicted growth respectively to 2016.
15 November 2011
The total market for radiation curing ink for packaging will grow 24% from its 2011 base to almost 37,500 tonnes by 2016. In value terms 60% plus growth will take the market to over $883 million in the same period according to a new study by Pira International and Radtech Europe.
30 August 2011
The global consumer flexible packaging market is worth $58.3 billion in 2011 and is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 4.1% to reach $71.3 billion by 2016, according to the latest research from Pira International.
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