Indonesian Contract for Rack Clad warehouses

Schaefer’s Indonesian office has been awarded a contract to build 3 rack clad warehouses for 150,000 pallet locations, for the storage of raw materials at the manufacturing facilities at Kediri some 3 hours drive from Surabaya of Gudang Garam, one of Indonesia’s largest cigarette producers.

The first warehouse is due to be commissioned early in 2013; the second and third warehouses will follow at approximately 4 months intervals

This follows the award earlier this year for another two contracts, each for a rack clad warehouse, at the companies head office at Gempol.

All warehouses have been designed to seismic standards, Schaefer’s contract includes the provision of AS/RS cranes and conveyors, with the warehouse management and material flow system from Salomon.

A team from Schaefer’s Regional Head office in Singapore, using Indonesian steel erectors, will undertake the supervism of the installation of the racking system.

The total value of the 3 contracts exceeds Euro42m, the largest Schaefer has won in APAC, will be completed by early 2014, it represents over 10,000 metric tonnes of rolled profiles of which 30% will be supplied from the company’s Malaysian factory.

The first warehouse is currently under construction and will be commissioned by QTR2 2012.

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