Client: Large company

Industry: Plastics

Location: Belgium

Throughput: 500 tons (per day)

Model: LaborSave VHC

Year: 2005

The Challenge: To enhance sack handling efficiency.

The Facts: A Belgian logistics service provider employed numerous low-skilled workers to handle and empty sacks for the company’s clients. Raw material losses, training difficulties, and absenteeism resulted in pressure from management to reduce the number of employees, improve the efficiency of raw material handling, and increase throughput.

The Solution: The company learned about LaborSave after seeing an advertisement for the system in a Belgian industrial journal. LaborSave personnel were invited to the plant for a meeting, and before long the company placed an order for a portable LaborSave system. 

Once installed, the system provided instantaneous results — not only in raw material handling — but also in much greater worker efficiency. In fact, the company experienced an exceptional 1,200% increase in throughput per worker with LaborSave (see graph)! Before LaborSave: 3 workers; 31 tons of raw material handling per day. With LaborSave: 1 worker; 142 tons of raw material handling per day.

To Date: The client is extremely happy with the results. The portable LaborSave system remains in constant use in the factory.