b'LOGISTICS IMPROVEMENTSSaica enters the Logistics Revolution in the Paper Industry By Kaj Fahllund, Vice President, Pulp & Paper, Pesmel The Saica Group is a leadingJuan Antonio Meler, Paper Industrialand simultaneously improve overall producer of recycled cardboardProjects Director says, Thewarehousing management through packaging with operations andobjectives at our mill here were toelimination of satellite warehouses, offices in nine countries acrossincrease the storage capacity at theenhancing control of inventories and Europe. The company recentlysame time as transform our supplyimproving safety in the storing and completed installation of a state- chain model from made-to-order toloading areas. of-the art Pesmel TransRollmade-to-stock. This means effective automated storage facility at itsuse of land, improvements in storageAn additional challenge was to flagship El Burgo de Ebro mill,efficiency and reduced costs.demolish the existing manual Zaragoza, Spain warehouse and construct and The focus on reduced costs werecommission the new storage, whilst The Spanish Saica Group pridesparticularly related to using externalall three paper machines and the off-itself on its sustainability focus, aswarehouses and transporting ourmachine coater continued running at well as its streamlined processespaper rolls, as well as damagenormal capacity.which extend from gathering itscaused to rolls from clamp trucks own raw materials for productionusing traditional handling methods. THE SOLUTIONof high-quality packaging products,In order to allow uninterrupted to the final delivery to demandingThe Finnish warehouse logisticsproduction of the mill during the customers all over Europe. Thecompany, Pesmel, was selected bydemolition and installation of the new group operates four businessSaica to transform the mills internalstorage, SAICA decided to proceed divisions: Saica Natur (integratedlogistics, due to its vast experience ofin two phaseseach with a 32,500 waste management), Saica Paperinstallations in the paper and metalton warehousing capacity. Upon (providing recycled paper forindustries.completion of phase one (at the corrugated cardboard), Saica Pack end of the second quarter of 2020), (corrugated cardboard packagingTHE CHALLENGETheSaica Group have placed an order solutions), and Saica Flex (flexibleThe overall goal was to improveobjectiveswith Pesmel to supply phase two. packaging solutions).customer service by providingwere toThis final phase will be operational fast and flexible, yet high qualityincreasein 2022.When the Saica Group was lookingdeliveries. The challenge set forthe storage to expand its aging warehousePesmel was to develop an efficient,capacity atThe Pesmel-supplied automated facility at its El Burgo de Ebro millautomated logistics solution to storedistribution centre has 4 stacker in Spain, it decided to explore65,000 tons of rolls with 4,000- the samecranes and 8 sorting cars plus 12 outside the usual ways of movingplus stock keeping units shipped totime asloading positionsall controlled and storing paper rolls. The facilityover 40 customers, utilising sometransformby a warehouse management produces more than 1 million tonnes250 trucks per day, in on-demand,our supplysystem. Trucks arriving randomly to of high-quality 100% recycled paperrandom order. chain modelcollect their orders are identified by for the production of cardboardfrom made- number plate at the mill gates which, packaging on four production linesThe customers ultimate target wasto-order toin turn, triggers the automated pushing a multitude of different rollsto double the storing capacity at themade-to- unloading of the order from the to storage. mill site from around 35,000 tonsstock storage.38 WORLD PULP&PAPER'