United Caps holds official opening for automated store in Luxembourg

United Caps, a caps and closures maker, held a grand opening for at its automated warehouse, newly built to increase storage capacity by a third, from 3000 palettes to 4500.

Benoît Henckes, CEO of United Caps, said: “We opened our plant in Wiltz 25 years ago and have made significant investments in the operation each year.

“It is the largest United Caps plant and arguably one of the most productive and technologically advanced in Europe. The addition of this new fully automated warehouse facility is the latest masterpiece to complete the factory. It is designed to support our manufacture of more than nine billion high-performance closures and caps each year. Our special thanks go to the authorities of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg who have been unerring in their support for our efforts. This development, plus our plans to break ground in Malaysia in 2018, are signs of our healthy growth and our dedication to our ‘Close to You’ strategy designed to strengthen ties with our key customers around the globe.”

Luxembourg’s Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider officially opened the plant.

Henckes added: “The new warehouse also enables faster loading of trucks - we can now load ten trucks per day. It also improves our environmental sustainability by eliminating the need to move product to an external warehouse and its energy management system results in very low power consumption. Open house attendees were able to see all of this first-hand.”

Benoît Henckes, CEO of UNITED CAPS, Etienne Schneider, Luxembourg's Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Minister of Internal Security, Minister of Defence and Remi Heimburger, Plant Manager of UNITED CAPS Wiltz

» Publication Date: 20/06/2017

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