InfraStructures - September 2013 - Industrial Tires from Continental Ensure Quality and Reliability in a Woodworking Factory

Industrial Tires from Continental Ensure
Quality and Reliability in a Woodworking Factory

Aloysius Krenzer AG, one of Germany’s leading manufacturers of wooden pallets, headquartered in Poppenhausen near Fulda, has opted for Continental industrial tires. When it came to choosing tires for the firm’s 60 forklift trucks, workshop manager Josef Gensler chose the SC20 solid tires from Continental. He did so, because they offer a long service life, excellent driving characteristics, up to 30% less rolling resistance and up to 5% less CO2 emissions on their forklift trucks than their competitors’ products. The industrial tires from Continental are used for a variety of purposes, principally for transporting wooden pallets at the family firm’s headquarters in east Hesse – from unloading and throughout the production process, all the way to final loading. This is why it was particularly important to use state-of-the-art, sturdy tires for the forklift truck fleet.

High Quality, Low Operating Costs
Aloysius Krenzer is one of the few pallet manufacturers that carry out all the steps involved in production themselves, from transporting the logs, sawing them and manufacturing the pallet, all the way through to delivering them with the firm’s own fleet. Since the wooden pallets are moved around in many different ways, and at high frequency, fit-for-purpose tires on the forklift trucks play an important role. The SC20 here assures safe, dependable and efficient transportation of the wooden pallets.

“There were two crucial arguments governing our choice of tires for our forklift trucks: excellent quality and absolute reliability from the moment they went into operation”, says Josef Gensler. “Continental’s SC20 tires meet these criteria and also save us operating costs, thanks to their high mileage.”

Source: Continental