Loading bay redesigned
September 1st 2010 Stertil Stokvis has completed a
loading bay installation for Waitrose,
valued at £373,000, on a new chilled
warehouse at its distribution centre
in Bracknell.
The skeletal construction of the
Waitrose building means that its
structural steelwork is installed on
the outside. Also, the main building is
piled and floating, with the dock and
warehouse floors moving separately
to the rest of the building.
During loading and unloading, the
food retailer had been experiencing
problems with
toppling milk trolleys
and damage to dock
shelters as well as
buffer problems.
These factors led the
company to redesign
the whole dock area.
Stertil Stokvis
obliged supplying
pre-cast concrete
loading bays for 31 dock levellers.
These included 17 P Series
parallelogram dock levellers and 14 X
Series telescopic lip levellers.
Additional equipment included 31
doors, 14 WIS combination seals,
seven foam dock pads, traffic lights,
PE bumpers and composite control
panels.
"The site is completely
transformed," says Colin Robson of
Waitrose. "We now have reliable,
high-performance dock equipment
which allows us to load and unload
vehicles quickly and efficiently,
without the levels of damage and
spillages we were experiencing
before." More articles from Stertil UK Ltd: | 
