Saica in Spain: A Walk Into the Future of Mill Logistics, Paper360º May/June 2023

It was an impressive but slightly eerie sight: a large stacker crane in a tall warehouse operating autonomously in low lighting as it went about its task of curating the stock of thousands of reels of paper. In a shock move, the giant robotic stacker suddenly comes speedily toward our group and stops just in time, one arm shooting up as it makes another decision to collect reels from way above us. It then drops down and speedily goes back, transporting the reels to the other end of the warehouse and to the truck collection area.

There was not a pallet in sight, nor any reels of paper stacked on top of each other. This is the future of mill logistics.

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