Tyretrust A/S is a company that act as a service partner for car dealerships, garages, workshops etc. The primary business is picking up, bringing, storing, washing, balancing and preparing the customers' wheels. Tyretrust currently stores approx. 70,000 sets of wheels, and also handles between 90,000 and 100,000 individual wheels per year, which must be washed in one of the company's many washing facilities.
Do you want to know more about TyreTrust? Then you can see more about the company at tiretrust.com.
In the video here you can see the vacuum lifters from Schmalz in use at TyreTrust in Køge.
Tyretrust is gaining momentum
Tyretrust has 2 branches in Denmark, one in Horsens and one in Køge - the company in Køge has been at the address since 2018, and has been expanded several times since then. The company has now reached the maximum capacity of what is possible in the current building, but we at TyreTrust are far from finished developing and growing, says Operations Manager Alex Jørgensen.
A helping hand
Tyretrust handles a very large number of wheels in its facility every day, and moving that many wheels around each day is a major task.
Tyretrust therefore had to find a solution for handling the many wheels, so that the work could be done more easily and quickly while giving employees an even better physical working environment.
Alex explains, “Obviously, with the large number of wheels we handle, we already have some aids available for lifting the wheels up and into our machines, but because our current setup is very time-consuming, we unfortunately often see employees choosing to handle and lift wheels themselves without using the aids.
He continues; “and they do that quite simply because it takes too long; they choose the easy and quick solution”.
Tyretrust has previously had, among other things, hoist tracks with electric hoists to help with handling, and the company experienced the same thing then as now – that it was simply too time-consuming, so employees often chose the easy and quick solution, which was to handle and lift the wheels themselves. “The solutions were actually fine for the task, but they took far too long”, says Alex.
Research and idea for the solution
Alex explains that they after a good idea from the employees, during a brainstorm, started looking for a more efficient solution, and here they looked for, among other things, on vacuum lifters which were the employee's idea, and here Fyns Kran Udstyr jumped forward with a wide selection.
"We were actually a little surprised that there weren't more qualified providers of vacuum solutions than Fyns Kran Udstyr," he says.
Tyretrust contacted Fyns Kran Udstyr and described the challenges, which quickly sent out one of its consultants to start a dialogue with Tyretrust about their wishes and needs for a new and more efficient solution.
Alex tells smiling; "Although wheels are not the most normal thing to lift with a vacuum lifter, with help we found a gripper that could handle the job safely, quickly and efficiently".
Demo solution
Before investing in such a facility, it is nice to be able to test it first, and Tyretrust of course also got this opportunity. Alex states; "The fact that we had the opportunity to borrow a demo solution so that we could test something that looked like our intended solution certainly helped to remove any doubts - and then we also knew that it was the right thing that we had chosen."
Alex continues; "What we can see with the new facility is that the lift / handling has become easier and more efficient. At the same time, we save time in relation to wheel washing – it was the right thing to invest in a vacuum handling solution", he says.
"What we want and hope with the new solution is that our employees spare themselves - and with a vacuum handling solution, it is no problem to carry out so many lifts in one day", he concludes.
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