Saint Gobain’s warehouse floor contains steel armored joints. Over the years the impact of the trucks has bent and displaced the steel and the joints have broken down creating deep voids and potholes around the joints. Driving over these joints in such a state of disrepair produces a shockwave through the vehicle, this has often resulted in the load being damaged and has caused frequent damage to the material handling equipment such as damaged or smashed bearings. In order to avoid such damage, and to reduce the impact and strain placed on the body of the operative, the drivers were forced to slow the machines down to a crawl over the joints which had a significant negative effect upon productivity.

After an initial Floorbridge trial joint, Saint Gobain immediately saw the benefits, and very quickly instructed us to install FloorBridge in numerous locations around the warehouse. The situation regarding the installation of Floorbridge has now been discussed and reviewed by senior engineers, operations directors and also the team responsible for truck repairs. The outcome was that there had been a significant reduction in impacts recorded by the trucks computer and a dramatic reduction in truck repairs and associated downtime. There had been zero reports of lost or damaged loads over Floorbridge joints, drivers reported that they were able to move around the warehouse without slowing down for the Floorbridge joints and commented that they were able to achieve there tasks more quickly and efficiently.

Saint Gobain UK Glass immediately placed a further order for half of the remaining joints to be replaced with Floorbridge, this work is now complete and the rest of the remaining joints are scheduled to be replaced with Floorbridge during 2016