Our deep-freeze warehouse
SHELF LIFE WITH MAXIMUM FRESHNESS
Our business model focusses on supplying bulk consumers with frozen baked goods, as deep-freezing is one of the most gentle methods of extending the shelf life of our business partners' food. In this way, we offer our customers the opportunity to provide their own clientele with freshly baked goods in the quantities they need at any time.
Our deep-freeze warehouse in Queis is the centrepiece of our trade. Every day, we receive numerous deliveries from our business partners, which make up our extensive range of baked goods. In turn, deliveries to our customers also start from here.
Up to 1500 pallets treffen täglicharrive at our warehouse treffen every day, while a similar quantity is loaded back onto lorries with up to 33 pallets.
The frozen goods delivered must be -18 degrees Celsius when they arriveat our warehouse.
Selected products can also be added to our warehouse as fresh goods. These are first frozen in limited freezer spaces for ten hours before they have up to 24 hours in the high-bay warehouse to reach the required core temperature of -18 degrees.
Before the goods reach our warehouse, they are measured, weighed and checked for the correct temperature.
This is how we guarantee the freshness and quality of our products to meet the needs of our customers.
The high rack
THE CENTREPIECE OF OUR DEEP-FREEZE WAREHOUSE
Our high-bay warehouse is a central component of our logistics system and is fully automated.
It offers space for storing up to 14 500 pallets.
Intensive storage and retrieval takes place every day. The same pallets are often moved within a few hours, as they have barely been stored before they are delivered again. The automatic storage and retrieval machines therefore whir back and forth almost continuously, receiving the pallets arriving on the conveyors and releasing the outgoing pallets.
A rhythm that comes very close to a heartbeat.
The temperature here is constantly -22°C and the oxygen content in the air is reduced to prevent fires.
Flexible solutions for customer requirements
REALISATION OF INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMER NEEDS
Labelling of cartons.
Attaching additional labels for export customers to display country-specific information in compliance with the law.
Customised labels are also applied here as part of our private label service.
Customised packaging.
In our packing department, boxes are individually mixed with up to six items, depending on customer requirements.
Customised order picking according to customer requirements.
We offer to mix pallets in layers or to layer them with up to 30 different cartons of baked goods.
Our bread packing station turns boxes into cartons.
Selected products from our parent company Harry Brot arrive as fresh goods in the familiar red boxes. Once the bread has been frozen, it is packed into boxes in the bread packing station and stacked on pallets ready for dispatch to customers.
Technical maintenance
SMOOTH OPERATION AROUND THE CLOCK
Our warehouse can only operate effectively if all technical systems are working perfectly.
That's why our maintenance team ensures that everything is always in optimum condition.
Regardless of where problems occur, they ensure continuous operation day and night.
This means that frozen baked goods can leave our warehouse in Queis again tomorrow.
Deep-freezing with solar power
Ensuring the quality and safety of frozen baked goods increasingly requires energy, especially in light of the challenges posed by climate change. For reasons of sustainability, cost efficiency and the desire for a certain independence of supply, Backshop has therefore been operating its own ground-mounted photovoltaic system since 2022. The large, south-facing open space right next to the warehouse offers the perfect conditions for this.
In addition to directly covering part of our annual energy requirements with the help of the system, the deep-freeze warehouse itself serves as a cold store. Surplus energy is stored and reduces electricity consumption at night.
Interested in how effective solar power can be for the operation of a deep-freeze warehouse? Find out here what proportion of the warehouse's energy consumption is accounted for by the solar system.
