GF Piping Systems invests in Schaffhausen
GF Piping Systems will invest a total of CHF 21 million in its Schaffhausen location in order to expand distribution and production. About CHF 14 million of this amount will be invested in expanding the current distribution centre and improving its efficiency, while CHF 7 million will be set aside to increase manufacturing capacity of plastic products in the Schaffhausen plant. The investments will be made to satisfy the surge in demand, to eliminate delivery bottlenecks and to substantially improve operating processes.
The consistent steady growth of GF Piping Systems has led to several delivery issues and it has impacted on working conditions at the Schaffhausen distribution centre. The lack of space for storage and for handling operations has forced GF Piping Systems to rent additional space in remote locations with consequent complicated logistics process, unnecessary environmental emissions and much higher costs. The Schaffhausen distribution centre, in operation since the late 1980s, will be brought up to the current more demanding market standards with new additional infrastructures: automatic high bay warehouse for additional 15,000 pallets storage, expansion of the shipment-handling area by about 2,000 sq. metres, additional 3,000 sq. metres of storage capacity for pipes and big size fittings. More: KWD-globalpipe, No.294..