REMA TEC automates WENKO's new DC with a systematic solution from Interroll

MD Philip Köllner, at WENKO-WENSELAAR, explains: "Our traditional family-owned company offers a range of around 6,000 products that epitomizes practical benefits and innovation in the bathroom, kitchen, laundry and living areas. Every year, we develop around 500 new products and now have more than 1,000 registered patents and trademark rights. With the modernisation of our goods distribution centre, we are concentrating our activities in brick-and-mortar retail and e-commerce. This means even better delivery times for our growing customer base."

Increase in efficiency and capacity raises maximum throughput to 4,000 units per hour

With this order, Interroll and REMA TEC are meeting the extremely challenging capacity and efficiency demands that WENKO is making on its DC. The automation solution designed for dynamic intermediate storage and order picking of pallets and boxes will enable a throughput of up to 4,000 units per hour to be achieved. 

The goods are stored and picked on four levels, each of which includes five picking tunnels with highly efficient pick-to-belt material handling technology. This flexible systematic solution uses a large number of Interroll products in seamless combination to ensure a high-performance and reliable application. 

These include picking lanes for pallets and box flow levels, with Interroll drum motors and Belt Curves throughout the material handling system. In the 19 sorter end points, Interroll's Crossbelt Sorter is included along with several MSC 50 Magnetic Speed Controllers to ensure safe and controlled transportation of the packages from a height of more than 3.5 meters to the ground-level packing stations.

Large number of Interroll products in use

Peter Dippel, owner and CEO of REMA TEC GmbH, states: "As a system integrator of material handling solutions, we rely on efficiency and reliability. Over the years, we have successfully collaborating with Interroll in the interest of our customers and the future-proof automation solution that we developed jointly for WENKO, sets the standards in cost efficiency and return on investment."

Interroll confirm this challenging project is further proof that the unique interplay of its products and services for dynamic storage and sorting, all the way through to intelligent 24 V drive technology—offers WENKO clear added value for achieving its business objectives. With acknowledged high quality standards, the scalability of the solution means that future growth is also taken into consideration."