EAB's versatility is reflected in Ellos

”The start of a long and good cooperation”

EAB STEEL BUILDINGS, STORAGE EQUIPMENT & DOORS EAB's diversity is reflected in Ellos

Ellos Group is a leading Nordic e-commerce group for fashion and home furnishings, with the e-commerce sites Ellos, Jotex, Stayhard and Homeroom. With headquarters and warehouses in Borås, they have their roots deep in the heart of the Swedish textile industry.

Ellos Group was founded in Borås in 1947 by entrepreneur Olle Blomqvist and the first mail order catalogue was sent out as far back as 1953. Ellos was also an early adopter of digital solutions - the first online shopping solution was launched in 1999. Investment in new logistics centre The new logistics centre at Viared in Borås brings the main part of its Ellos Home business, its own brand in home furnishings and textiles, together in one place, moving from four small warehouses to one large one. In addition to the warehouse, an outlet store has also been opened in the premises. At EAB, we are proud and happy to have been able to deliver steel frames, storage equipment and safety doors for the new logistics centre.

Challenging projects EAB supplied the frames, roof and walls for the close to 30,000 sq.m. building. The property has an internal clearance height of 10 metres and has been constructed with the future in mind – the northern end is already designed so that it can be extended.

Anders Eskilsson

WHAT WAS USED IN THE PROJECT

• 1.500 wall elements • 2.700 roofing sheets • 5.100 m³ of roof insulation • 231 bolt baskets

We also supplied a balcony, pillars and sheet metal for the interior Ellos Outlet warehouse store. The building and property development company Bockasjö serves as the client for the frames and associated deliveries. The lead-time at EAB from order to delivery is quick, and the building is normally ready after just six months. When Ellos' new warehouse was to be built, 25-year-old construction engineer Jonatan Eriksson was at the drawing board.

”This was really a special project for me, because it's the first logistics building I've designed entirely myself. This building is almost twice the size of what I've designed together with colleagues before. During the project design period, you suffer a bit from tunnel vision, and most of the time I was just concerned with getting on with the work and moving on in the project. Even though I visited the site several times during the construction work, it was probably only during inspection and afterwards that I realised what an impressive project this was. A really fun project with many new challenges and lessons learned!” says Jonatan.

”Parts from all THREE of our business areas”

”A really fun project with lots of new challenges and lessons learned!”

- Jonatan Eriksson, Construction Engineer at EAB

In addition to the steel frame, EAB also supplied storage equipment for Ellos' new logistics centre.

”I've worked with Ellos for many years and we've been a big supplier to them for a long time. This is a wonderful modern facility, with a lot of special solutions, for example due to the many pallets they use for furniture and textiles. These pallets are often extra-long and are much easier contact stage with Ellos at the beginning of our

to handle with customised racks. We're proud to and shelf racks. The overall delivery has provided Ellos with around 32,000 pallet spaces.

once again deliver large amounts of equipment for Ellos in Borås," says Jörgen Svensson, Area Sales Manager for storage equipment at EAB.

Start of the mesh shelving has large numbers of cardboard boxes in its warehouse. Consequently, a large amount of mesh shelving has been installed, to allow for optimal operation of the sprinkler systems in the event of a fire. ”We actually have Ellos to thank for how we started to deliver mesh shelving. During the early relationship, they had mesh shelving as part of their enquiry. Since we could deliver this, our longstanding cooperation got off to a good start. As always, we were keen to find the best solution together with our customer, and here it really was a stroke of luck," Jörgen says.

Thanks to a mezzanine solution of 5,000 sq.m., the area in the building could be optimally utilised and space made for a further 10 rows of pallet Ellos not only uses pallets for storage, but also

Versatile with all business areas There are also 13 security doors in the building from our door department. We are very happy to have had the opportunity to deliver as diverse a project as this one, with parts from all three of our business areas.

”As always, we're keen to find the best solution together with our customer, and here it really was a stroke of luck”

EAB DOORS Lets in the light with new doors

”The previous were sold after 38 years”

Däckcenter in Anderstorp was started in 1970 by Anders Åstmar, but has been owned by his son Henrik since 2007. They currently have three employees. There is also a tyre hotel at Däckcenter, which currently houses tyres for around 900 cars.

The premises were built in 1982, when they were fitted out with doors from EAB, as two manual inward-opening folding doors with sheet-metal cladding. Unusually large doors were fitted at that time, measuring 3.6 metres wide and just over 5 metres high. Today, these have proved to be the perfect access dimensions for modern-day trucks, which are significantly higher than back in the 1980s.

An obvious choice

Sustainability is important for us at EAB. That EAB's doors have a long service life is important to us, which is also confirmed by Henrik Åstmar at Däckcenter. Their existing doors were installed in 1982 and since then have kept on going, come rain or shine. Henrik has now updated his building with completely new EAB doors because he wanted power-operated doors instead of manual ones. There was no doubt that the new doors would come from EAB.

”Since the old doors have worked since 1982 and still work just as well, it was obvious that EAB doors would be the choice this time, too," says Henrik.

Henrik Åstmar, owner, Däckcenter

”My initial idea was to change to the same doors as we had before, but power-operated. But after checking your website and discovering these fully-glazed doors that were also available as power-operated, the choice was simple. Choosing doors that let in so much light really changed the atmosphere in our premises, making them much brighter and more pleasant. We also chose solar control glass to limit the amount of heat that can build up with so much glass. It's also great that the doors can be opened and closed quickly and that both doors can be operated using the same remote control!”

”Since the old doors had worked since 1982 and still worked just as well, it was obvious that EAB doors would be the choice this time too."

Reuse with EAB ”Because our old doors were still fully functional, despite having many years behind them, I put them up for sale online. Within a week, the doors were sold to their new owner in Sundsvall. That EAB is built to last is something I can really testify to!,” says Henrik.

"That EAB is built to last is something I can really testify to!” - Henrik Åstmar, owner, Däckcenter