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The Success Story

Aerosols production with intelligent logistics

Refined intralogistics leads The Motip Dupli Group to higher efficiency

The family-led enterprise Motip Dupli with its headquarters in Hassmersheim, Germany has a good name in the aerosol industry and is already celebrating its 50th years anniversary on the market. The Motip Dupli Holding covers up-to-date production plants in Hassmersheim and Schwerte in Germany, Wolvega in The Netherlands, and further 12 subsidiaries, as well as additionally 20 dealers and 13 warehouses in European countries and Turkey. On the global market of the paint aerosols and touch-ups pencils the Group holds a share of 10%. In the last years the european orientated and global acting management successfully introduced centralization measures and intelligent multi-brand strategies. In its expansion strategy, the group targets on Eastern Europe, the Near East, the USA, Brazil and India.

Logistics for colorfull mixture

The company has just celebrated the production of its billionth spray can at the production plant of Hassmersheim near Heilbronn. The enterprise started first here in 1955 with the production of the first chemical rust converter. Today the paint aerosol and touch-up pencils assortment consists of over 50,000 articles and cover more than 8,000 different colours. The filling capacity starts from 12 ml cans up to 600 ml cans. Under enormous logistics expenditure approximately 60 million spray cans, 7 million touch-ups pencils and approximately 2 million tons of putty are produced, labelled, packed, centrally stored, picked, loaded and delivered per year with an increasing tendency.

The Hassmersheim production plant possesses stocking areas for various basic chemical production materials. Separate gas and solvent warehouses are furnished with large tank storages and unloading stations. Up to 4 gas and solvent tank trucks arrive here daily. The outdoor warehouse is equipped with heavy load shelves. The factory I and II share the same warehouse for raw materials and for finished products. These stocking areas as well as the distance to the stations of the transportation line before the factory II are the fields of action of three OM electrical forklifts with minimum dimensions. The two E8N- and the E10N- electric forklift trucks possess extremely small turning circle and can turn 360° around their own axle. These narrow, compact and dynamic forklift trucks are ideal for operating in warehouses with limited space, railway wagons, and containers. In the new factory III, the manufacturing of aerosols with a market unique 2-component technology have recently started. Here a warehouse with pallet shelves is settled, in which a XE20ac electrical forklift truck transfers the entire pallet handling. Trucks can be loaded and unloaded here at three roll gates. The company owned trucks transfer the transported palletized units between the factories I and III.