In its new logistics centre in Kranj, the Slovenian company Obenauf now stores up to 13m-long construction timber in 5.7m-high cantilever racks from OHRA, instead of on the floor as before. In doing so, the building materials dealer, which specialises in the needs of roofers and carpenters, has increased the speed of the storage and retrieval processes by 35% compared to the previous block storage.
With a high stock of products, Obenauf ensures fast delivery, even in small quantities, directly to its customers’ warehouses. To continue to guarantee this high delivery capacity, the company built the new warehouse at the Kranj site, from where it supplies roofers, carpenters, and manufacturers of prefabricated houses with building materials and semi-finished parts.
During the planning phase, the focus was on additional storage possibilities for up to 13m-long construction timber, as roofers and carpenters increasingly demand these items from Obenauf. Until then, the company stored these timbers as well as 6m-long sandwich panels for roof insulation on the floor in block storage. This made it difficult to access the individual products and damage was repeatedly caused during handling. In addition, the goods were previously unprotected from the weather in the outdoor area.
To simplify access to the materials and to make the entire storage and retrieval process more efficient, Obenauf decided to equip the yard with cantilever racking from OHRA. The company had already been using racking systems from the European specialist in heavy-load storage technology for cantilever racking for several years.
OHRA installed two rows of single-sided and two double-sided racks for the yard. On six storage levels and with 1.25m-long, clip-in cantilever arms, they offer significantly more storage space than would be possible with floor storage.
Roof beams are mounted at the top of the columns; the 2m-deep roof with an incline of 6 degrees protects the stored goods from the weather.
OHRA delivered the racks within three months and they were assembled directly upon delivery, allowing the new logistics centre to open on time. With the new warehouse, Obenauf was able to reduce damage to the stored goods, significantly increase the efficiency of the storage processes and, at the same time, increase delivery reliability once again.
“Meanwhile, many carpenters and roofers have visited our new distribution centre to get an impression of what we have realised together with OHRA,” said Gregor Grilc, managing director at Obenauf. “Thanks to the cantilever racks, they get a very good overview of the variety of goods currently stored with us.”
