Loscam stacks up the clients with IBC 16

Loscam’s first foray into the bulk containers business, the Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC), is receiving positive feedback from its first clients.

The IBC 16 is reportedly the lightest on the market, offering manual handling and transport efficiency. With its unique integrated lid, the IBC assists customers in the handling and tracking of rented units.

The IBC 16 was developed with consideration of customers’ ideas and feedback.

Dairy company Bulla transfers industrial volumes of cream and yoghurt between its manufacturing sites and to external customers. “We provided feedback and when the final product was shown to us it met all our expectations,” said David Mahoney, Bulla’s procurement manager. “We couldn’t be happier with this container and it’s nice to have had input and helped create a design that has changed the marketplace.”

West Australian company Brownes Foods has been operating since 1886. Today, it uses over 130 million litres of milk in its dairy products. Having used Loscam’s wooden and plastic pallets for many years, Brownes was keen to trial and take delivery of its first load of IBCs.

“The IBC is simpler to use and is creating cost savings for the company,” said assistant warehouse manager Baden Radford.

Greek yoghurt specialist Chobani is using the IBCs to store its sweet yoghurt products in Victoria. “We’ve used Loscam’s wooden pallets for a long time and saw the safety benefits of the new Loscam IBC,” said Joris Dorsman, General Manager of Supply Chain at Chobani. “The pallecons we used previously didn’t stack very easily.

“The IBCs are interlocking; you can stack them on top of each other and we can safely stack four high now, which we couldn’t do with the competing product, so we have better space utilisation,” Dorsman continued. “It is a well-engineered and well-designed IBC and we also like the fact that it is Australian made.”