SSI Schaefer Ltd.

Company Profile

SSI SCHAEFER offers flexible, modular and scalable solutions tailored to the challenges of the frozen food industry. Boasting over 80 years of history, the company has a global presence in over 70 countries, with eight production plants and over 10,000 employees across six continents. Over the years, SSI SCHAEFER has grown through acquisition to become one of the largest manufacturers of materials handling products in the world, providing complete storage and handling solutions to its large customer base.

With widespread expertise across a number of specific areas, SSI SCHAEFER has a dedicated market sector for the food & beverage industry, bringing together detailed knowledge to address the industry’s unique requirements. Thanks to its experienced teams with comprehensive industry know-how, SSI SCHAEFER is primed to develop customised solutions targeted at increasing productivity and efficiency for the frozen food sector.

For companies in the growing frozen food market, warehousing concepts must include intralogistics systems and processes that offer high performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness while maintaining temperature control, legal hygiene standards and traceability. When storing and picking frozen products, space saving, design and optimised labour utilisation play crucial roles in reducing operating costs.

SSI SCHAEFER’s partially or fully automated intralogistics systems offer huge potential for savings here. Using the company’s comprehensive portfolio, its experts can devise bespoke solutions to cover all areas of intralogistics for frozen goods. All temperature ranges can be covered with the company’s technologies, and all legal obligations are implemented as standard, including HACCP hygiene standards and the required product traceability.

The company’s mobile pallet racks are ideal for storing large or heavy goods, and the combination of these with SSI SCHAEFER’s conveying systems expertise, powerful electric drives, and effective system configurations makes them a consistent first choice for deep-freeze warehouses.

Such locations can also benefit from SSI SCHAEFER’s pallet conveyor systems, which boast a modular design and energy efficient operation with frequency-controlled drive technology. This ensures flexible in-house transport between production, storage, picking, and shipping, guaranteeing an optimum material flow. All pallet conveyor components can be used in temperatures ranging from -28°C to +45°C.

In addition, SSI SCHAEFER’s channel storage systems are perfect for small ranges with large volumes, as found in the frozen food industry. It consists of multiple storage positions set behind each other in channels, creating a dense storage medium. This is accessed through channel vehicles, which move the goods in and out of storage. This makes significantly higher use of available space in comparison to pallet racks, for example, and is effective wherever storage space needs to be minimised. It is also ideal for environments with energy intensive temperature control thanks to its steel construction, which can withstand extreme temperatures down to -30°C.

SSI SCHAEFER can also offer automated storage systems, notably the SSI Exyz storage-retrieval machine which is the ideal solution for fully automated pallet storage. This can be used in deep-freeze warehouses down to a temperature of -28°C and in conjunction with SSI SCHAEFER’s other solutions, such as its channel storage systems.

The SSI Exyz enables efficient high bay warehouses with heights from 8 to 45 metres, and offers highly flexible operation. It can be used as a single-boom or twin-boom machine with one or two load handling devices, and is suitable for single-deep, double-deep, and multi-deep storage as well as retrieval. What’s more, the SSI Exyz is configured using an efficient modular concept: all components are manufactured in series, pre-assembled at the plant, and then can be put into operation in a very short period of time.

Providing scalable, energy efficient and future proof systems from a single source, SSI SCHAEFER offers huge potential for cost and space savings in deep-freeze applications. In an industry where companies must remain adaptable to changing packaging demands, product diversity and new framework conditions, SSI SCHAEFER’s holistic approach ensures you will receive the full solution you need.