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News I Our customers<br />
Design and efficiency go<br />
hand in hand: a new automated<br />
clad-rack warehouse designed<br />
by Mecalux for STUA<br />
Founded in 1983 by Jesus Gasca, STUA<br />
in one of the most internationally recognized<br />
Spanish contemporary furniture<br />
design companies. Recently, its operations<br />
moved to a new facility in Astigarraga<br />
(Guipúzcoa) in order to boost continuous<br />
growth.<br />
After assessing various options for the implementation<br />
of a storage system that best resolved<br />
their needs, STUA finally chose the<br />
project submitted by Mecalux, due to the<br />
confidence that being made in Spain and<br />
their extensive experience conveys.<br />
STUA’s objectives are to gain perfect control<br />
of both their products and deliveries to<br />
any part of the world, in addition to maximise<br />
storage capacity. To fulfil these requirements,<br />
Mecalux has planned out a solution<br />
consisting of an automated clad-rack warehouse<br />
annex to the production building that<br />
stands out for its slenderness, since it has had<br />
to adapt to some unusual measurements:<br />
80 m long, 25 m high and only 9 m wide.<br />
The automatic warehouse is made up of<br />
an aisle where a single-mast stacker crane<br />
circulates, which serves the double depth<br />
racks located on both sides. The racking has<br />
10 levels of different heights in order to locate<br />
various sized load units – some larger<br />
than usual – given the characteristics of the<br />
product. The inputs and outputs of the automated<br />
warehouse have been dealt with a<br />
circuit of conveyors.<br />
Last but not least, to manage all warehouse<br />
processes, Mecalux will implement its Easy<br />
WMS warehouse management software,<br />
which will allow the full control STUA stock<br />
and real-time inventory, while also optimising<br />
and coordinating product throughput,<br />
from its entry into the warehouse to its dispatch<br />
to the end customer.<br />
The new automated clad-rack warehouse will<br />
provide STUA with better efficiency and profitability<br />
in their logistics operations. This will,<br />
in turn, give them a competitive advantage in<br />
their job of innovating and promoting Spanish<br />
design, which was recognized in 2008 with<br />
the National Prize for Innovation and Design.<br />
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