Sixth storage facility completed for ladder manufacturer

Smart-Space, the manufacturer and installer of temporary, semi-permanent and permanent buildings, has completed a sixth temporary building in thirteen months at the Maldon manufacturing site of Werner, the world’s largest ladder manufacturer by volume. 

This latest building, a 50-metre by 20-metre aluminium-fabricated structure with composite walls and a PVC thermo roof, is fully enclosed with a roller shutter door and is used for the storage of extrusions and raw materials. The inventory can be stacked up to six metres high, which optimises the storage capacity of the building. 

The Smart-Space constructions form part of a major integration project at Maldon, designed to accommodate the move of four production lines onto the site, along with larger volumes of extruded aluminium from a sister site in Vietnam and some substantial orders from several pan-European retailers.

"Massive increases in imported and manufactured volumes and a reduction in capacity elsewhere within the business meant we needed a much larger, flexible storage solution for extrusions, fibreglass, other raw materials and stock," Werner's UK manufacturing engineering manager, John Darby, said. "Time was of the essence and we found that temporary buildings provided an ideal alternative to more permanent brick or steel-fabricated structures."

Even though they may end up being on site for several years, hiring temporary buildings cut the time associated with planning and building regulations requirements significantly and meant that securing the required storage involved no major capital outlay or business rate implications. 

"We send a specification over to Smart-Space, have a fully-costed plan within a couple of days and the building is up within a couple of weeks of order – meaning the whole project takes no more than a month from initiation to completion," John concluded. 

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