For us, innovation is based on 3 pillars: profitability, supply chain efficiency and sustainable development. Discover our latest areas of innovation and research.
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Automated Moisture Inline Control: streamlining pallet moisture check
By integrating non-contact, in-line moisture detection technology, we’re streamlining pallet moisture checks, enhancing operational efficiency, and offering significant benefits to our customers. Combining this technical solution with data reports will enable us to have a clearer view of our pallets, manage our stocks more efficiently and save time. With automated analysis and classification of pallets based on moisture content, we aim to reduce kiln usage, and lowering CO2 emissions.
Customers benefit from customizable sorting levels, ensuring precise moisture control tailored to their needs. Plus, every pallet undergoes unit testing, guaranteeing adherence to agreed moisture levels, with detailed data reports available upon request.
Robotics for Handling & Repair: enhancing efficiency in pallet management
We aim to tackle labour shortages and improve pallet management efficiency by deploying robotics for pallet handling and repair processes. We are working closely with our service centres to meet the demands of a changing workforce and reduce the arduousness of operator work by exploring the possibility of replacing tedious manual tasks with automated processes.
Thanks to greater flexibility in the layout of our service centres and a reduction in manual labour, we can optimise operations and guarantee consistent quality for our customers.
Pallet Scanner: leveling up pallet sorting process
By combining cameras and profilometers, we are investigating the use of a pallet scanner to detect and measure defects on pallets accurately, ensuring automatic sorting that is objective and repeatable, transforming manual sorting into efficient automatic processes.
With the ability to save sorting criteria in customizable recipes based on our customers specific requirements, this new pallet scanner will allow us to deliver consistent pallet quality every time. Partnering with industry-leading experts, we’re fine-tuning our solution and aim to test it in 2024.
Transport Digitalisation: leveraging real-time tracking possibilities
Several projects linked to the digitalisation of our transport processes are currently being developed and tested at LPR and should be deployed at an industrial level within the next 2 to 5 years. Our objective is to provide our customers with real-time tracking of their deliveries.
We started using Shippeo to reinforce our Transport Managing System (TMS), enabling customers to get realiable real time delivery tracking information and to optimise their logistics performance.We are also developing new digital tools to optimise and secure our transport processes such as SAP TMS Transport management system.
Network & Flows optimisation
As part of our continuous drive to improve our operations, we are working to strengthen and modernise our network of service centres. On the one hand, we are ensuring optimum coverage of the territory by opening new service centres in strategic locations (as close as possible to our customers and partners). On the other hand, we are working to modernise our network by launching strategic projects aimed at increasing the productivity of our depots as well as their performance in terms of sustainable development and reducing CO2 emissions.
We are also currently working on the use of alternative means of transport such as bio-fuel trucks or multimodal transport: we are currently testing different initiatives throughout Europe with the aim of rolling them out globally. In 2023, 13% of our national flows were covered by trucks running on HVO and 7% of our international flows by train, enabling us to make savings of around 3M kg CO2e.
Maximising load rate
We are working closely with our customers and partners to maximise the loading rate of our trucks for pallet delivery and collection.
Several initiatives across Europe are currently being tested, such as the use of Duo Trucks, which enables us to transport twice as many pallets at the same time and reduce our CO2 emissions by 30%. The aim is to standardise this type of practice across all our operations in Europe.
Pallets designed for use in complex automated systems
With the move to ever more highly automated environments by our customers and the retailers, our pallets have been configured for use in even the most complex automated systems.
To ensure that LPR pallets are ready to use in your automated system, each pallet is inspected, and where necessary repaired, so that it meets our very strict specifications providing you with peace of mind.
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