Schneider Newsletter

01.04.2004

The "added value" of container systems from Schneider – modular flexibility

Aluminium containers from Schneider are exchangeable splash water-protected packaging systems which lend themselves ideally to wide-ranging requirements. Their fundamental design is based on a modular system concept. One benefit is that different container sizes can be stacked together. Their dimensions are configured in line with truck loading standards.

The container interiors are individually configured depending on requirements and adapted to the type of goods being loaded. The containers can be fitted with lids, doors, roller shutters or hinging drive-in ramps.

The aluminium containers are transported using fork lifts or cranes, or on their own chassis, and also using a combination of all three.

Design of the aluminium containers is always individually configured to customer requirements, making them a preferred option for use as a transport aid and exchangeable packaging, for instance where production takes place at several different locations.

The inner layout of the container systems generally comprises transport trolleys designed on a modular basis, which permit adaptation to changing products and materials as the manufacturing process advances. This allows the same aluminium container to be used to transport the product from one location to the next. The container remains unchanged; all that alters is the transport frame inside. The so-called "mobile internal layout" simply adjusts to the changes in the transported products.

Schneider aluminium containers also create a variable warehouse which takes up minimal storage space. And Schneider containers can always be stored outdoor – including their cargo.

With our splash water-proof aluminium containers you will never be "left standing out in the rain". Valuable products require top-class storage and reliable transport facilities that can be relied upon no matter what. This stringent demand is fully met by innovative Schneider containers – for "added value" you can count on.

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The creation of metal-matrix composites represents a new process technology. Alloys based on aluminium, magnesium and copper are being increasingly combined with carbides, oxides, graphite and ceramic fibres. A variety of combinations are currently in the development phase and promise to provide pioneering property combinations in terms of wear resistance, density etc. Sintering of hollow metallic spheres to create specifically arranged / subordinate structures also results in materials with widely varied properties. Also new is the development of core composites made of foamable semi-finished aluminium products.

Light alloys used in combination with lightweight constructions become an increasingly established feature in the sales markets (in particular for transport applications - in automotive engineering, for rail vehicles, in buses, aeronautical engineering – and also in mechanical engineering applications).

Example: The Schneider Hygienic Design sandwich pallet is made from aluminium sheds with integrated special honeycomb base, fully welded, waterproof, creating an absolute flat surface in GMP Standard.