Remarkable improvements of the logistical efficiency in paper industry can be achieved through striking out all unnecessary transfers of the material. This leads to faster operation as well as decreased damages. Other benefits come through the data technology that supports the use of bigger freight units made possible by the cassette system.
Thus the advantages achieved by using cassette system are obvious: each roll or bale can be identified and placed on a known, registered place on known cassette, where it can stay the whole journey. Touching the single bales/rolls during the journey becomes unnecessary.
As the cargo can be pre-loaded on cassettes, it remarkably reduces the time needed for transferring the shipment into a roro vessel or on railway wagons.
The relation between loading times of cassette-based and traditional systems can be as
high as a whole day vrs 2 hours, like SCA Transforest has reported. Another benefit is that the
damages can be reduced dramatically. 90% cut in transfer-time end product damages has
been reported after only 4 month usage of the cassette system based on Rolux/Logister translifters..Naturally all this saves costs.
On the log field the Logister cassette system offers an unique way of intermediate buffer storage
and log transfer to the feeder unit. This makes it possible for just two men per shift to
handle a massive material feed of a pulp mill, like in Stora-Enso Enocell mill.When unloading the logs from railway wagons, remote controlled Logister industrial locomotives significantly improve the efficiency of the operation.
Standard marine cassettes can often be used with paper products. On the raw material side, Logister also manufactures high-volume log cassettes with capacity up to 160tons/200m3. For such increased load capacity, Logister manufactures heavy-duty translifters and special terminal tractors.
Paper making is an non-interrupted on-going process that demands high level of reliability from its all parts. In Logister, we understand both the end product and the raw material transfer as a part of the process. The technical solutions and the carefully chosen and high-class materials and components ensure the high technical availability of Logister equipment that are designed for continuous 3-shift work. This is also supported by the diagnostics functions and remote supervising possibilities integrated in the control system.
Besides single transfer vehicles, Logister offers a complete logistic system including translifters, heavy duty pull tractors and cassettes as well as remote controlled industrial locomotives and automated railway wagon loading/unloading stations.
Logister offers:
- translifters, cassettes and pull tractors
- industrial locomotives (free moving / limited access)
- stationary wagon movers
- railway wagon loading/unloading stations
- automation, agv and information technology