British manufacturer S&S Plastics has used Robotics and Automation 2021 to launch a new solution designed to deliver substantial increases in fuel efficiency, improve warehousing, robotics and transform supply-chain operations.
Developed to solve a number of the warehousing and logistics industries issues, S&S Plastics’ Insert Tub reportedly offers the potential to increase operational efficiencies by up to 800%.
Manufactured at S&S Plastics’ Nottinghamshire base, the Insert Tub is a 100% recycled polypropylene tote insert that creates a fully configurable solution inside storage and stack nester totes allowing for up to eight separate SKUs to be achieved inside a single tote.
This approach is designed to solve the problem in warehousing and logistics of totes being predominantly empty on their travels, by allowing a variety of different sized SKUs within a single tote.
According to Nick Bortone, managing director of S&S Plastics, the company has received orders for over 50,000 units in just a couple of weeks following the product’s soft launch.
“We’ve been delighted with initial uptake of the S&S Plastics Insert Tub. It’s truly testament to the scale of the problem and challenge that businesses have faced,” said Bortone.
“As we roll out this solution to the wider business community we are really looking forward to the many positive impact the Insert Tubs can have.”
With integrated barcode tracking preconfigured the solution also gives warehousing operators and logistics firms new options in the creation of faster service times.
What’s more, it is fully compatible with standard 600 x 400 totes and exceeds Global FM drainage standards, resulting in a secure and robust solution for wasteful correx inserts and flimsy cardboard.
“Every day we are in contact with logistics and automation firms as part of our normal business routine, and so often we’d hear about issues with inefficiency and cross contamination. We resolved to sort out the problem ourselves” said Bortone.
“The S&S Plastics Insert Tub was the result of using those frustrations and our plastics moulding experience to come up with something innovative and ground-breaking.”
Speaking to Robotics & Innovation live on the show floor at the Coventry Building Society Arena, Joe Joyce, S&S Plastics’ business development manager, revealed that, as the company went through the design process, “we realised that actually not only are we increasing the efficiency of a logistics process but ultimately we are really bringing some environmental benefits as well”.
Thus, the S&S Plastics Insert Tub ensures that factory operations are more efficient, and trucks are able to carry far more product, and stop shipping air.
S&S Plastics (Stand 511) is at Robotics and Automation 2021 on 02-03 November at the Coventry Building Society Arena. For more details, go to www.roboticsandautomation.co.uk
