BRS rises for Kelloggs
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MI A million purpose-built Kelloggs warehousing and distribution complex at Trafford Park, Manchester was officially opened last week by BRS Northern.
The centre, which replaces a low-headroom warehouse unsuitable for lift trucks as well as another Manchester area BRS depot, is on a 5.3 hectare (13-acre) site which has room for future expansion. Kelloggs originally expected to expand within five years, but now expects to do so sooner.
BRS keeps 100 contract vehicles at Trafford Park, 37 of them on the Kellogg contract and several others on newspaper delivery contracts for Mirror Group Newspapers and The Daily Telegraph. It also keeps general haulage and rental vehicles there.
Main part of the investment, described at last week's opening by National Freight Consortium chairman Sir Peter Thompson as "the kind of standard we are looking for at NFC", is an 11, 200m2 warehouse dedicated to goods from Kelloggs' plants at nearby Stretford and at Wrexham, North Wales.
It holds 9,125 pallet spaces, three high and two deep and is expected to handle 3.5 million cartons a year, with the stock being turned over every four to six weeks.
Four Atlet lift trucks are used within the warehouse, two of them having a 6.5m reach height to handle pallets on the top level. The hign reach trucks have television monitors to increase safety.
NFC, which has become increasingly fire conscious since the expensive loss of its flagship multi-company depot in Sheffield 18 months ago, has installed elaborate fire prevention equipment in the warehouse.
Eight hundred sprinklers operate in eight sections of the warehouse, and in winter are filled with compressed air, rather than water, to prevent damage caused by freezing. Additional security is provided by equipment from another NEC company, Sonitrol Pickfords.
Twenty-four of the contract vehicles are demountable-bodied Renault G170 and Leyland Freighter 16-tonners: 23 curtain-sided and seven box bodies are used with them.
Two 12m semi-trailers u on the shuttle service between Kelloggs' Stretford plant and Trafford Park arc fitted with Hydraroll floors which, in tandem with Hyd roll equipment at each buili ing, automatically load and unload palletised goods in minutes with only minimal human handling. Hydraroll most commonly used for ai freight lorries.
Computerised stock coni labelling and documentatior undertaken at Trafford Par using Vista equipment lido to JCL mainframe equipme at Kelloggs' premises.
BRS Northern handles Kellogg's deliveries in an al bounded by Kendal, Scarborough, Hereford and Wisbech.