SPAR focusses on environmentally friendly transport security
Instead of stretch film, the SPAR retail company uses reusable plastic sheets on the roll containers where necessary, thereby protecting the environment.
19 August 2019
A Spar employee picks a Roll-Safe container in an Austrian Spar warehouse. (Image: Press'n'Relations and SPAR)
Instead of stretch film, the SPAR retail company uses reusable plastic sheets on the roll containers where necessary, thereby protecting the environment.
The Austrian SPAR Warenhandels-AG relies on the environmentally friendly transport securing system for roll containers from RS-Systems GmbH in Schärding for its food retail business. Instead of investing a lot of money in stretch film for load securing, which can only be used once, the retail company saves 70,000 euros a year with the environmentally friendly, lightweight and highly resilient structured chamber panels.
In order to completely dispense with film, the long-established company is even considering dispensing with stretch film in the automatic central warehouse in Wels in future and using Roll-Safe plastic sheets manually.
In addition to the costs for further purchases of winding systems, the maintenance and repair of the machines would then also be eliminated. This compares to the acquisition costs for the panels and the labour required for manual installation. However, this would be worthwhile in any case.
„We are working on abolishing the film for transport security in 2019“ Talitha Meisl, Head of Central Warehousing at SPAR
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Talitha Meisl, Head of Central Warehousing at SPAR, and RS-Systems Managing Director Martin Köllner at the SPAR headquarters in Salzburg. (Image: Press'n'Relations and SPAR)
SPAR, headquartered in Salzburg, operates 3,174 food markets in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, northern Italy and Hungary and generated sales of more than 15 billion euros for the first time in 2018 with supermarkets, shopping centres and sports retail. In Austria, thousands of tonnes of food are transported daily from the six regional warehouses and the central warehouse in Wels to the supermarkets on roll containers.
Instead of wrapping metre after metre of film around the roll container, two heavy-duty Structured chamber panels from Roll-Safe the goods of the Austrian retail group. When roll containers are emptied in the shop, the sheets are collected loose in the store and sent back to the wholesaler. They can then be reattached to the next picked roll container to secure it for transport.
According to RS-Systems Managing Director Martin Köllner, up to 22,000 roll plates have now been delivered to SPAR. In addition to the cost savings, the SPAR Group is also focussing on environmental considerations.
