Unilever, United States Cold Storage opens new cold storage facility
Unilever, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and US Cold Storage, Voorhees, N.J., unveiled a new 336,500-square-foot cold storage facility, which includes a Swisslog solution designed for the freezer environment, as well as Vectura cranes, pallet conveyors and automatic guided vehicles (AGVs), all optimized and controlled by Swisslog's warehouse execution system software.
The new frozen distribution center, located in Covington, Tenn., connects to Unilever's existing 815,000-square-foot production facility with a 312-foot corridor kept at -20°F to create what is said to be one of the largest ice cream manufacturing and distribution facilities in the world.