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VIPA has completed its third high-bay automated warehouse, increasing its storage capacity by an additional 30,000 pallet spaces to an eye watering 150,000 spaces. VIPA now has space for over 65,000 different products – including different sizes, coatings and materials – available from stock.

VIPA SpA moved to its current head office in Rolo, Italy, in 2001, and began with one high-bay warehouse, which is 135m long and 35m high – including five automated aisles. By 2007 the company expanded with a second high-bay warehouse, with an extra seven automated aisles – with all twelve aisles working in synchronisation.

The third warehouse, built to the same dimensions as the other two warehouses, has increased VIPA’s storage capacity by 25% and is also synchronised. However, the third warehouse is fully automated. “The addition of the third warehouse means that we will have access to a totally automated 24 hour system,” mentions VIPA. “The machines will be operational round the clock. At night the machines will work on optimising the goods locations; not only on the basis of actual orders, but also on probability of potential ones.”

To go alongside the three warehouses, VIPA also has a fully equipped laboratory, which can conduct a wide variety of quality tests to guarantee the products according to certified and known norms. “We are also certified as a producer for structural bolts according to EN 15048:2007 standards. Our SB bolts are supplied with CE Marking in accordance with the construction standards 89-106 and 109 EN-1 and 2 – part of the category of high strength bolts.”

Another important range available from VIPA, is its construction hex head bolts in HV kits, according to EN 14399, available in plain and HDG, from M12 to M36.

VIPA supplies both trade and industry and in addition to its companies in Italy, it has five branches in Spain, France, Germany, China and Czech Republic.