Zowell Double Deep Reach Trucks – Optimizing Storage Space for North American Pharmaceutical Warehouses

Recently, Zowell shipped 7 units of its RRE Series Double Deep Reach Trucks to North America, delivering a high-efficiency narrow-aisle, high-level stacking solution for a leading pharmaceutical enterprise. This deployment helps the customer significantly improve space utilization and resolve longstanding warehousing and logistics bottlenecks.

Project Background

The client is a leading pharmaceutical company in China, boasting a professional R&D team and a robust portfolio of pharmaceutical patents. Committed to continuous technological breakthroughs in drug development, the company is driven by rising public health awareness and a long-term strategic vision. To support expanded market reach and address growing medical needs, the enterprise has prioritized optimizing its internal logistics and scaling up pharmaceutical production capacity.

Existing Problems

1. Space Constraints in the Current Warehouse The client frequently receives large volumes of diverse purchase orders within short timeframes, creating significant storage pressure and escalating warehousing costs. To maintain cost control without expanding or modifying the existing warehouse infrastructure, the company urgently needs to maximize storage capacity within the current footprint.
2. Outdated Logistics Equipment Pharmaceuticals are subject to strict shelf-life requirements, and the enterprise faces intense pressure to meet tight order fulfillment timelines. To ensure reliable first-in-first-out (FIFO) inventory management and achieve smoother, more efficient logistics operations, the client seeks to upgrade to modern, high-performance equipment.
3. Stringent Requirements for Drug Storage and Handling Given the sensitive nature of pharmaceutical products, the warehouse demands logistics equipment that maintains a contamination-free, clean storage environment. Additionally, operations must provide smooth, vibration-free transport to guarantee the stability, integrity, and safety of medications throughout handling.
4. Escalating Labor Costs Under the traditional logistics model, surging order volumes have led to chronic manpower shortages and sharply rising labor expenses. The enterprise requires more automated and efficient solutions to reduce dependency on manual labor while sustaining high throughput.

Zowell Solution

1. Zowell Forklift optimizes the warehouse layout with a focus on very narrow aisles and high stacking, recommending a double-deep racking solution for the enterprise. This replaces the previous ordinary racking with RRE15 double-deep reach trucks. With a maximum lifting height of 10.7m, the RRE15 fully utilizes the warehouse's vertical space to significantly expand storage capacity and boost the storage volume utilization rate by 60% over the prior setup.

2. Zowell double deep reach truck has a high-strength scissors structure, which can extend to 1080mm. RRE15 can work in 3.1m of the aisle with four rows of shelves , eliminating the need to change the channel time, to achieve high efficiency throughput requirements.

3. The whole series of products of Zowell are electric, no gas emission during operation, which can create a good storage environment for medicines; the whole vehicle moves smoothly, which can avoid tipping over and damage of medicines during transport.

4. Zowell Double reach forklift can easily load 1.5 tonnes of goods at a time, equipped with 8.0KW traction motor maximum speed of up to 10km. Artificial labour intensity is greatly reduced.