Modula U.S.A. uses automation to produce automated storage units

09-01-2015
By Sue Roberts - the fabricator, August 2015

The Modula U.S.A. plant in Lewiston, Maine, is the result of a $6 million investment in new equipment, a new focus on manufacturing automated vertical storage (AVS) units, and a renaming by Italian parent company System Logistics. Cost-competitive production resulting from integrated, automatic sheet metal fabricating equipment from Salvagnini was key in the company’s decision to locate in the United States.

Modula, a global automated storage systems OEM, practices what it preaches, puts its money where its mouth is, and walks the talk. It is building automation to make companies more efficient and profitable using automation that makes producing its automated vertical storage (AVS) units efficient and profitable...
 
A lights-out punching, shearing, and forming line replaced outdated equipment to economically produce parts for Modula’s AVS units in single-piece, kit, or batch flow.