Baumann Paper Company

Application

A family-owned company established in 1950, Baumann Paper is a wholesale distributor of paper, plastic and other sanitary supplies for food service, grocery, retail and healthcare industries. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, the company ships product throughout a five-state service area.

Challenge

Baumann Paper moves more than 4,000 different products throughout its 6,967-square-metre (75,000-square-foot) warehouse over 1½ daily shifts, five days a week. As the facility has expanded over the years, warehouse additions have created a floor with numerous seams. With an aging warehouse and mixed forklift fleet, the company needed to increase uptime and improve the dependability of its fleet. Baumann Paper also needed a reliable training partner to help train its operators to become safer and more productive.  

Solution

Baumann Paper still utilises 25- to 30-year-old Crown stockpickers and, based on their dependability and long service life, purchased four new Crown stockpickers to replace an older, mixed fleet. Crown designed and manufactured components built for reliability and longevity contribute to the stockpickers’ long life. The SP 3500 Series includes a platform cushion that features a microcellular composition that reduces vibration and operator fatigue. The Crown stockpicker also offers the industry’s largest platform window — 50 percent larger than competitors — and a operator stance that provides the steadiness that operators need to confidently manoeuvre over the facility’s uneven surfaces.