Thirsty work

Juice consumption has
increased by 50% over the
last 10 years which is why
leading juice supplier Gerber
called on automatic vehicle
loading specialist Joloda to
help it save costs, increase
cross dock efficiencies,
improve health & safety and
reduce its carbon footprint
while moving large volumes
of palletised goods.

Jolada has helped Gerber
safely expand capacity at its
Bridgwater distribution site
in several ways.

These included supplying
Gerber with 2 loading docks
at the factory warehouse and
2 unloading docks for the
storage warehouse which
supplies the supermarkets
and wholesalers. Joloda also
supplied 4 trailer systems to
load and unload from these
automatic docks systems,
and to take the pallets of
juice to the chilled storage.

When the juice is
produced the production
siteabd packaged on to
pallets these pallets are
loaded from the
production area to the
loading bay with Joloda
loading docks, by Laser
guided vehicles (LGV’s).

When the pallet is received
onto the dock the Joloda
Hydraroll control system
identifies which type of
pallet it is, positions and
accumulates automatically
the pallets into two
accurate rows and using a
traffic light system indicates
to the driver that the dock
is full and ready for loading
to the trailer. 4 slipchain
trailer systems, are used to
transport the pallets from
the production site to the
chilled warehouse.

The slipchain system
enables 26 pallets to be
loaded/unloaded from dock
to trailer in 90 seconds while
improving safety in the
loading bay area.