Logis­tics is the dri­ver of glob­al­i­sa­tion. And con­tain­ers are its tur­bo, as a glob­al­ly recog­nised stan­dard capa­ble of being han­dled any­where in the world. Which is why SIMPLY. is expand­ing its solu­tion world­wide. Because load­ing and unload­ing con­tain­ers was some­thing that, until now, has nev­er fit a set stan­dard. It’s still very much dom­i­nat­ed by impro­vi­sa­tion – par­tic­u­lar­ly when it comes to heavy and bulky car­go, of all things.

The solu­tion to this is the SIMPLY. con­tain­er filler, which is already set­ting bench­marks the world over. It has a load-bear­ing capac­i­ty of up to 30 tonnes, and is extreme­ly flex­i­ble. With a sin­gle wood­en pal­let gen­er­al­ly made by the cus­tomers them­selves, all it takes is the press of a but­ton and the con­tain­er is loaded in 10 min­utes! Unload­ing is just as quick – in any cli­mat­ic con­di­tions. So it’s no won­der that the con­tain­er filler is used on every con­ti­nent, gen­er­al­ly by branch­es or sub­sidiaries of SIMPLY. cus­tomers in Europe. They are so impressed with SIMPLY. that they have now start­ed using it world­wide, mean­ing SIMPLY. con­tain­er fillers can be found in all cor­ners of the globe as a sym­bol of cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion. Every 9 min­utes, a con­tain­er is being loaded or unloaded using a SIMPLY. machine some­where in the world!

SIMPLY. vision in 2019

SIMPLY. will be con­tin­u­ing down this path in future, and also attends trade fairs out­side of Europe; the SIMPLY. team was indeed at Pro­MAT in Chica­go just in April. Pos­i­tive cus­tomer reports, the Inter­net, and ads at trade fairs are all gen­er­at­ing active inter­est. Enquiries are being processed at the company’s head­quar­ters in Thier­haupten, near Augs­burg. And it is from there that the new SIMPLY.s are sent all over the world, with no need for sales or ser­vice branch­es. Be it in Asia, Africa or Amer­i­ca, the SIMPLY. is deliv­ered with the con­tain­er as a plug-and-play solu­tion. Main­te­nance is min­i­mal and can be done by the cus­tomers them­selves. Fre­quent­ly need­ed wear parts may be deliv­ered in the same pack­age upon request; noth­ing more is need­ed. Any­one who con­tacts SIMPLY., whether as an exist­ing or prospec­tive cus­tomer, will also encounter oth­er genius ideas in the form of the mate­r­i­al-han­dling sys­tems. These solu­tions have also been devel­oped based on the require­ments of prac­ti­cal oper­a­tions, which are sim­i­lar­ly dom­i­nat­ed by impro­vi­sa­tions or stand-alone solu­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly when it comes to inter­nal logis­tics. SIMPLY. takes mate­r­i­al han­dling to a new, safe and effi­cient lev­el here. The solu­tions are mod­u­lar, build­ing on from one anoth­er, giv­ing the cus­tomer a tai­lor-made logis­tics kit while still enabling them to rely on set stan­dards. What all mate­r­i­al han­dling sys­tems have in com­mon is their high­ly robust design. Made from hot-dip gal­vanised steel, they can with­stand even the most unfavourable of cli­mat­ic con­di­tions.

The SIMPLY. con­vey­ors are also high­ly mobile thanks to their con­trol han­dle, which rotates almost ful­ly. In addi­tion, they fea­ture a fork sock­et com­pat­i­ble with all con­ven­tion­al indus­tri­al trucks. This keeps them manoeu­vrable in even the tight­est of spaces, enabling them to fit down nar­row cor­ri­dors. Their design is such that they can also be used as a buffer store, either next to one anoth­er or just out­doors. Each of the con­vey­ors can be tai­lored to cus­tomer require­ments, always based on the con­cep­tu­al design for the car­go, e.g. pro­files. SIMPLY. is thus the per­fect option for cus­tomers to store and trans­port long car­go. Gone are the days of hav­ing euro pal­lets lying around the con­vey­ors; the con­vey­ors now serve as inter­im stor­age solu­tions. If the pal­lets are trans­port­ed back as part of the deposit return scheme, the euro-pal­let con­vey­or can quick­ly be dri­ven to the truck and be instant­ly ready for load­ing again.

This once again demon­strates how SIMPLY. gets more out of world­wide stan­dards. Indus­tri­al plat­form con­vey­ors also have poten­tial for world­wide use. Heavy sheets of met­al or plas­tic no longer need to be trans­port­ed on the forks of large hoist­ing vehi­cles (which par­tic­u­lar­ly caus­es major prob­lems in fac­to­ry halls); with a load-bear­ing capac­i­ty of up to 7.5 tonnes, the con­vey­ors can hold the car­go length­ways and, thanks to their fork sock­et, enable the car­go to be trans­port­ed using a nor­mal indus­tri­al truck. They can also be loaded with indus­tri­al pal­lets, which are in turn high­ly cus­tomis­able. So there’s always a per­fect solu­tion – for long-car­go trans­porta­tion, heavy or bulky goods, stor­age capac­i­ties and much more. SIMPLY. is always the glob­al stan­dard.