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Feature Loading bays & doors
Dock house solution for Noble
Stertil Stokvis has installed a series of 14
dock houses to support a new factory
extension for Noble Foods that wanted to
efficiently handle increased business at its
site in North Scarle, Lincolnshire
V
alued at almost £140,000, the
contract covered the supply and
installation of 14 sets of loading
bay equipment, each including
dock houses, dock levellers, insulated
overhead doors, dock bumpers, wheel
guides, traffic lights and dock lights.
Noble Foods is one of the UK’s
largest producers of eggs and egg prod-
ucts supplying millions of eggs every
day to leading supermarkets. Stertil Stokvis
The range of products for the 14 supplied Noble
new loading bays was specified fol- Foods with 14 dock
lowing a detailed survey by Stertil houses like this one
Stokvis of Noble Foods’ operation
at its site in
including the company’s use of deliv-
Lincolnshire
ery vehicles, fork trucks and manual
handling equipment. vehicles such as refrigerated trucks, foam, giving a standard panel U-value
Each bay features a XF2520 dock providing greater operational flexibil- of 0.43W/m
2
˚C. In energy-conscious
leveller, which has a telescopic lip that ity in the loading bay. times, the Thermadoor is is said to be a
extends in line with the loading bay Stertil Stokvis, which has over 40 sound choice, providing the dual ben-
platform. The lip extension can be years experience in loading bays and efits of security and superb insulation.
accurately controlled to make vehicle dock areas, has also installed a To complete the equipment within the
positioning less critical and can also Thermadoor into each bay. An electri- new dock houses, Stertil Stokvis
be partially withdrawn to allow full cally-operated door providing superior added robust and durable PE dock
use of the loading area. Stertil Stokvis Stertil UK insulation properties, the Thermadoor bumpers, wheel guides, traffic lights
X series levellers can accommodate T: 0870 770 0471 is a highly-efficient, energy-saving, and dock lights.
many different sizes of vehicle, www.stertiluk.com insulated overhead door. Its panels Significantly, the dock houses and
including the stepped floors in Enter 406 incorporate CFC-free polyurethane all associated equipment may be easily
relocated to different sites if necessary
providing complete flexibility to allow
High-speed doors cut energy usage
for Noble Foods’ future expansion
plans. Also, as non-permanent struc-
tures, the dock houses are not consid-
W
ith so many economic forces and forecasts hampering business operations,
ered for rateable value purposes.
companies need to monitor their costs more carefully, especially energy usage.
Peter Robertson, Noble Foods’ pro-
At Wetherby Building Products, supplier of cement-based construction products, in
ject manager, says: “Stertil Stokvis was
Dalton, North Yorkshire, a solution was required to maintain their working temperature and
already a tried-and-trusted supplier of
reduce their energy consumption in their production warehouse. Klimate High Speed
ours. They came up with a competitive
Doors, a specialist designer and manufacturer of high-speed doors, was asked to install
price for this job and, added to what
four Ardent high-speed doors, to help reduce Wetherby’s energy consumption.
we already knew about the high
Having a constant flow of traffic entering and leaving the warehouse. Mike Brier at
quality and reliability of their prod-
Wetherby says: “With today’s needs to assist in maintaining a reasonable level of energy
ucts and their after-sales support, it
consumption, we needed to have a product that could maintain a constant working temper-
was an easy choice to award Stertil
ature and keep our energy loss to a minimum, especially through our busiest area of pro-
Stokvis the contract.”
Andrew Georgiou, general manager
duction, which is a priority. The product had to be durable, reliable and of high quality.”
of Stertils Stokvis’s loading bay divi-
Chris Halsall of Klimate, a division of BID Group, says: “With adjustable opening and closing speeds of up to two
sion, says: “Our excellent relationship
metres per second, the Ardent door has enabled Wetherby to generate major improvements in energy management, working
with Noble Foods has already led to
temperature conditions and to maximise efficiency in production areas.”
three additional orders and we are
The Ardent range of doors is said to provide valuable energy savings by minimising heat loss, with the additional benefit
working on a number of other projects
of low maintenance costs. Due to the simplistic nature of the door and the fact that Klimate engineers are able to train the
as well. We’re very pleased with the
customer’s personnel on the workings of the door, any maintenance work can be quickly and easily undertaken in-house, success of this installation, which
reducing ongoing maintenance costs. fully equips the new factory extension
BID Group T: 0870 607 5050 wwww.bidgroup.co.uk Enter 407 while ensuring the client retains flexi-
bility for the future.”
14 JANUARY 2010 Materials Handling & Logistics
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