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Air cushion dispenser helps DC meet targets

New air-cushion void fill machines allow Stanley Black & Decker to package more than 16,000 shipments per day for retail stores and regional DCs.

A packing workstation at the Stanley Black & Decker DC in Tessenderlo, Belgium. The sensor-controlled silo is filled with the air cushions.
A packing workstation at the Stanley Black & Decker DC in Tessenderlo, Belgium. The sensor-controlled silo is filled with the air cushions.

Stanley Black & Decker in Tessenderlo, Belgium, handles the shipping capacities for customers in Benelux, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Scandinavia. To ensure that its protective packaging solution keeps pace with changing requirements, the distribution center is employing packaging from Storopack. “We have always achieved our productivity targets for protective packaging,” says Ludo Lantmeeters, Logistics & Facilities Sourcing Manager at Stanley Black & Decker. Since the summer of 2014, the average performance has been 18,000 shipments per day.

Stanley Black & Decker’s extensive range of tools—available under different brands, such as Stanley, Black & Decker, DeWalt, and Facom—are warehoused at the Tessenderlo distribution center. The goods are dispatched to DIY stores and retailers, as well as logistics service providers and regional distribution centers.

About 90% of the shipments are prepared with AIRplus® Void protective packaging air cushions from Storopack. Each of the DC’s four in-line workstations is equipped with a silo and a machine from the AIRplus® Mini series, which fills the air cushion from above in the silo. The worker can comfortably and ergonomically remove the air cushions and add them to the pre-packed products in the shipping package.

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