Bridging The Gap For Goodman Fielder

Goodman Fielder is home to some of New Zealand’s most loved and trusted household brands. Covering everything your pantry needs from flour and oil through to bread and cheese, these brands include Meadow Fresh, Edmonds, Chelsea, Puhoi Valley, Molenberg, Vogels and Natures Fresh, just to name a few.

To support this leading product offering, Goodman Fielder have 12 manufacturing sites located throughout New Zealand, alongside a large scale, efficient distribution network that enables delivery of their products to over 30,000 outlets every day including supermarkets, route outlets and food service customers, with high speed, quality, and ultimate freshness.

However, this efficiency comes with it’s own challenges at their loading docks.

In the past, they have typically used very manual means to load/unload the goods straight off the dock and onto the truck and vice versa. With the array of trucks in their fleet, bridging the gap between the dock and truck bed was a constant problem. Furthermore, there was a concern that their employees could fall off the edge of the dock, or hurt themselves during this process.

Recognising this H&S issue, led them to Ulti Group to literally “bridge the gap” between dock safety and dock efficiency, with a total of 96 Edge of Dock Levellers to be supplied and installed at Goodman Fielder sites throughout the country.

As per their name, these simple dock to truck levellers, are positioned on the edge of the dock, making them ideal for adding to existing docks, or if space around the dock is a problem. With rubber bumpers and a 6ton capacity, they are also very robust little beasts and will save time and space by eliminating the need to store, find and move portable plates to correct dock positions like Goodman Fielder had been doing previously. Ultimately, these will provide a much safer loading method, and a huge safety improvement for Goodman Fielder.

Keep reading for the latest updates as the installs take place! 😁