“We use them for loading and unloading the trucks in the day shift from Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. In the waste paper sector alone, twelve forklifts from the Aschaffenburg-based material handling specialist are in use, the majority of them in the five-ton load capacity range. “The counterbalanced trucks from Linde are at the heart of our logistics operations,” says Tobias Jäkel, Raw Materials Yard Foreman, explaining the impressive work of art. Some mountains increase in size, while others shrink, with the dots lifting, lowering, maneuvering, and moving about almost non-stop. “We wouldn’t get very far with patience, not unless we wanted to see waste paper mountains towering overhead,” says Astrid Sprenger with a grin.įind out more about the H35 – H50 from Linde.įrom a bird’s eye view, the comings and goings at the Smurfit Kappa depot look a bit like an installation by a performance artist: big, colorful mountains of material, with small red dots moving constantly moving back and forth between them. Bale after bale, tonne after tonne and every type imaginable, all this recyclable material needs to be unloaded from the incoming trucks, taken to the storage locations and from there taken to the production plant.
And since paper is at least as universally usable as it is in-demand, the work at Smurfit Kappa literally piles up high. Both are then sold internationally, and ultimately find their way to the end consumer in a variety of forms: be that as a removal box, document file or something else entirely. “From that we annually make approximately 240,000 tons of containerboard and 80,000 tons of paperboard for graphic use,” says Astrid Sprenger, Head of Recovered Paper Yard. This amounts to 1,000 tons of this valuable raw material, which originates from household paper recycling, as well as from various large companies. Day after day around 50 truckloads of waste paper roll into the yard. After all-here at the company’s site in Diemelstadt, Germany-paper is one thing above all else: relentless. This kind of fortune cookie wisdom may only be met with a weary smile from the employees at Smurfit Kappa Wrexen Paper & Board. As the German saying goes, paper is patient.
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