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Oltrogge: A Partner for Heavy-Duty Challenges Oltrogge, coating specialist from Bielefeld in Germany supported Jungheinrich AG & Co. KG, a company specialising in all areas of intralogistics throughout the process of designing, installing, programming and maintaining the new coating system for counterbalanced forklifts.
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fficient processes are decisive for corporate success.” Jungheinrich AG & Co. KG adopted this credo for all its products. For more than
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In order to take the production area to a new level of automation, Jungheinrich relies on a state-of-the-art plant with a heavy-duty skid conveyor system.
65 years, the Hamburg-based company has been one of the leading suppliers in all areas of intralogistics. It offers a broad portfolio of solutions ranging from conventional forklift trucks to fully automated logistics systems. In view of making its production of counterbalanced forklifts at the main plant in Moosburg even more efficient, its longstanding service partner Oltrogge supplied a state-of-theart, fully automatic painting system and optimized the painting process for faster production and lower material consumption.
From manual work to full automation At its main plant in Moosburg, Germany, Jungheinrich AG & Co. KG, which employs some 18,000 people in 40 Countries, manufactures counterbalanced forklift trucks. The trucks, which can be used universally in warehouses for stacking and retrieving goods, or for loading and unloading trucks, are a real challenge in production: the special “counterweight” component, made of solid cast iron, weighs between 500 and 3,500 kg depending on the type of truck. Until now, painstaking manual work was necessary at Jungheinrich to be able to properly paint © Oltrogge / Christian Willner
Detail of one of the sanding and painting robots.
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this angled element in production. Moreover, manual sanding and painting with low pressure was not only