The tobacco industry Filip Morris Izhora spare parts depot the automated storage of KARDEX SHUTTLE XP

More than five years the automated warehouses KARDEX successfully work at spare parts depot of Filip Morris Izhora Ltd, in the Leningrad Region. When there was a question of increase in capacity of a warehouse of storage of component parts and spare parts, the solution was unambiguous, the choice for benefit of the automated warehouse equipment KARDEX again. The company of innovations and technologies the official distributor KARDEX SYSTEMS AG (Switzerland) in Russia delivered and brought into operation the next automated warehouse KARDEX in anniversary for the company Filip Morris year - 10 years of successful work in the Russian market.

The Filip Morris Izhora company is the Russian tobacco factory, Philip Morris International affiliated enterprise, one of the leading tobacco companies in the world. "Filip Morris Izhora" is the enterprise of a full production cycle – from preprocessing of tobacco before production and packaging of cigarettes. Production capacity of factory – up to 75 billion cigarettes a year.

In only ten years the Filip Morris Izhora factory became the second in production volume products among the production centers "Filip Morris International" in the world, at the same time if in 2000 its production capacity was more than 10 billion cigarettes a year, then today it makes about 70 billion cigarettes a year. The company is also one of the largest investors and taxpayers in the region of the Leningrad Region.

"Filip Morris Izhora Ltd makes a big contribution to the economic and social sphere of the region, showing the high level of social responsibility", - Valery Serdyukov, the Governor of the Leningrad Region said. - "Work "Filip Maurice Izhora" - an example of reliable partnership, this enterprise fully fulfilled the obligations to economy, society and workers during the post-crisis period of the beginning of decade, then in economically favorable years, and continues to execute them now, at the time of economic instability".

The company Filip Morris uses the best warehouse equipment and the last innovative technologies which are available in the world now for the production. In the company the automated warehouse KARDEX systems of two types already successfully worked:

The carousel automated system of KARDEX INDUSTRIEVER SYS 350 (Now this system is upgraded and KARDEX MEGAMAT is called)

This warehouse automated system is used for storage of the small, not heavy loads placed on the bearing shelves in plastic containers. Advantages of such system in this case is that it allowed to place all melkogabaritny spare parts on extremely small square, having involved at the same time, almost completely, all empty seat - from a floor to the ceiling.

Thus, all small spare parts requiring, as a rule, special attention at storage were systematized and assembled in one carousel warehouse system. Exact compliance of numbering of shelves and the addresses of storage locations of Inventories with the relevant data of the WMS system of the enterprise allows to find quickly and unmistakably the necessary name.