New system for warehouse
One of the most impressive features of Dominion Breweries new $4 million office and warehouse complex is the pallet-glide stock system installed in the warehouse.
Mr Steven van der Pol, the project manager for Arrow Interntional, says a sophisticated, cost-effec-tive materials-handling and racking system was a priority for the warehouse.
The steel storage and handling system, with rollers for high-turnover stocks, enables vast amounts of product to fie quickly and efficiently forklifted on and off. Mr Hamilton Perry designed the structural steelframed storage shelves,which are bolted to the concrete floor but are otherwise free-standing. The fineness of the design belies the strength of
these high-rise shelves. The warehouse has an 8.5 m stud (28 feet), 24,000 cubic metre volume and covers 2820 square metres of* ground. It has been designed with the capacity for extra loading bays if the need arises in the future. DB executives visited a number of modern warehouses in New Zealand and Australia before deciding on the final plan
for the Christchurch storage centre. Arrow International is currently involved in a number of projects with Dominion Breweries including designing and building the new Cromwell Hotel, a new Rovers Return-style family tavern in Dunedin, and the recent installation of a $9 million, high-speed (600 bottles a minute) bottling plant at Washdyke.
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