Wolter helped a leading food processor who needed to consolidate multiple, outdated facilities into a single, modern operation while maintaining production capabilities & aligning with the strict requirements of a food-grade environment.

Challenge: NCA handles thousands of tons of cargo per week and needed a reliable forklift solution that utilized green energy while also being efficient & safe to use. Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) has its main North American hub located at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, servicing the US, Canada, and multiple Asian and European stations. NCA operates 24/7 with nearly 10,000 tons of cargo arriving at the facility via 14 inbound Boeing 747s per month. Outgoing cargo is then shipped on connecting flights to other North American hubs or transferred to as many as 100 trailers weekly for over the road [...]

Opportunity: Build a new police station to serve the community, build a better storage system to serve Police Department operations. South Elgin, IL, suburb of Chicago, is a village of nearly 25,000 people with a police department averaging about 17,000 calls per year. Staffed by over 30 full-time officers and a civilian team of 6, the Department had outgrown its existing station. When Village leaders were financially able to address the expansion needs of the police headquarters, they chose to build a new police station rather than remodel. This gave the Department’s design team the opportunity to start with a clean [...]

The Milwaukee Brewers were founded in 1970 when Bud Selig purchased the Seattle Pilots and moved them to Milwaukee. Since that time, the Brewers staff works hard behind the scenes of American Family Field to keep thousands of fans happy, entertained and loyal. It takes a strong local material handling partner like that of Wolter to keep American Family Field moving. 1. Lead Off There’s an exceptional amount of detail built into bringing Brewers baseball games to life. For instance, did you know that TV cameras are needed at particular heights and angles for the viewers to watch the game? [...]

Challenge: To convert a busy lumber yard running a fleet of diesel and propane forklifts outdoors to Linde IP67 rated electric forklifts. PC Lumber was founded in 1975 by Bill Armstrong in New Albany, IN. The current owner David Stemler started in 1977 as Bill’s first employee and purchased the business in 1988. PC Lumber has expanded since then, with a large lumber yard in Sellersburg, IN and also an offsite mill shop. The New Albany location is mainly a home improvement center while the Sellersburg facility focuses on lumber, trim, window and door sales to contractors and building professionals. [...]

Challenge: To maximize historical document storage while streamlining access and retrieval from a 14,000 square foot semicircular basement storeroom that includes 33 round support columns and 36 manhole covers. The Chicago History Museum was established in 1856 and currently located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.  A major museum and research center for Chicago history, the Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. A unique service that the CHM provides is the access and availability to the collection given to people from all walks of life, from academic scholars and documentarians to history [...]

Challenge: An ever expanding inventory of small parts, some loose such as nuts and bolts, and some boxed including OEM replacement parts, in a rapidly growing sales and service center for a packaging machine manufacturer. Optima Machinery USA Corporation located in Green Bay, WI is a sales and service center for their German OEM parent company. Optima manufactures packaging machinery for a wide range of industries including liquid/granule consumer products, nonwoven products and pharmaceutical products. A traditional storage rack system which consumed 2,000 square feet of floor space was being pushed to capacity, complicating order picking and creating bottlenecks in shipping. [...]

Acom Eaton Corp, a leading electric transformer manufacturer dedicated to improving people’s lives through power management encountered challenges with its CombiLift tires in their Waukesha, WI location. People depend on Acom Eaton Corp for technology, transportation, and energy to live and work. That’s why when they asked for help, it was our turn to step in. They encountered opportunities for improvement that led to the consideration of upgrading CombiLift – SC Tires. These opportunities included optimizing turning capabilities and ensuring consistent tread depth for enhanced performance. The replacement of straddle carrier tires significantly contributes to the overall operational efficiency of [...]

Implementing pallet flow racking enables manufacturing and storage space consolidation, eliminating off-site storage and double-handling.

The Wausau, Wisconsin, warehouse of Northwest Petroleum was a mess. As the petroleum equipment manufacturer accrued inventory and out-of-model equipment, its storage room became cramped and unorganized, which made finding inventory and parts difficult and inefficient. The company was looking for a way to consolidate storage and keep high-value products like point-of-sale consoles and electronics more secure than the current storage system allowed. To combat the issue, Northwest Petroleum investigated constructing a building-supported mezzanine to store the equipment. They were discouraged when they learned that the warehouse would have to be structurally engineered to meet building codes, that their operations [...]