Client: Large, public company
Industry: Plastics (blow and cast film)
Location: Germany
Throughput: 500 tons (per day)
Model: LaborSave HC
Year: Early 2007
The Challenge: To economize on raw material and labor costs.
The Facts: A highly innovative plastics manufacturer with sprawling facilities experienced a financial burden resulting from rising costs of materials and labor.
The plant operated 24/7/365 three-shifts per day, and with six emptying stations at strategic locations, and two dedicated workers at each station and a forklift operator for every two stations, relied heavily on substantial human resources.
The Solution: Through word of mouth resulting from its good reputation, the company learned of LaborSave.
Immediately after seeing a LaborSave system installed at a different location, the plant manager invited LaborSave’s engineers to a meeting. The discussion addressed the plant’s need for an automated solution that not only saved labor and material costs but also prevented injuries from manual handling of the sacks.
Soon thereafter, the LaborSave system was installed and began operating. For even greater efficiency, the company accepted LaborSave’s advice to use a portable system (mounted on a lorry) to move between silos and stations. Due to the significant labor-savings, the shift managers are now actually doing all of the work related to handling, opening, and emptying sacks. The dozens of workers previously employed at the six emptying stations were placed in other capacities throughout the operation.
The plant manager was so proud of the tremendous cost-savings — both in labor and raw materials —that he insisted pictures he took of the shift managers and the LaborSave system be used in the company’s marketing materials.
To Date: The client continues to show off the LaborSave HC with pride, and speaks quite frankly about savings it’s provided for the company.