For the automation of wine (delivery)
Following a strategic review of its drinks, manufacturing and distribution facility in Bristol, Accolade Wines – a global wine-making company whose portfolio of brands includes Hardys, Echo Falls, Banrock Station and Kumala – set about reconfiguring the site as a fully-automated contract beverage production and packing unit.
Located at the mouth of the River Severn, the facility – which is now known as The Park - has been transformed into a fully automated operation. The upgrades involved automating the site’s empty bottle storage system and modernising the manually-operated reach truck fleet that serves the site’s high bay finished goods warehouse.
Toyota Material Handling planned and delivered the project and supplied the manual forklifts, VNA forklifts, automated reach trucks and the Radioshuttle technology that is at the heart of this handling and storage solution. (sh)
www.toyota-forklifts.co.uk/automation