Nestlé Deutschland AG, Biessenhofen, Germany

The food products industry requires the highest standards of hygiene and safety in all production processes. However, the production of food manufacturers is not limited to the processing of food. For many applications that still have high standards of hygiene, the focus is on high capacity, global availability and low maintenance.

Within two years’ time, the world’s most modern production facility for hypoallergenic infant formula was constructed on the premises of the Nestlé factory at Biessenhofen comprising an area of three football fields for the price of 120 million Euros.

In this highly secured production process, almost everything is transported on conveyor belts and lift devices which run across the entire production line in multiple tracks. Switches control the flow of goods. An extremely complex system that needs to be monitored, just as all the elements that it transports. Numerous Interroll components are installed in many hundreds of meters of conveyors, which run through the production halls. Because, as supply chain manager Kuehn says: “In these sensitive manufacturing processes, all individual elements have to be absolutely reliable around the clock, there is no room for failure.”