The test pallets have already passed through the warehouse and the official opening took place in the presence of the media on 26 January 2023! 🎉
Many thanks to our partners at Pilsner Urquell for the great cooperation and especially for the opportunity to participate in the project.
The new warehouse is located directly on the premises of the Pilsner Brewery on an area of 10,000 square meters, which is equivalent to the size of 1.5 football fields. . The main building is a self-supporting rack system warehouse, which thanks to the equipment used is the most modern Prazdroj warehouse and one of the most modern warehouses of this type in the Czech Republic.
Goods from the bottling line are transported to the warehouse by an automatic pallet system with 28 carts, the so-called gondolas, which move along tracks with a total length of over half a kilometre. Bottles and cans are picked up directly at the warehouse by automatic racking cranes, which are equipped with energy recuperation to save electricity.
The unique self-supporting racking system can store up to 16,000 pallets, or approximately 18,000,000 beers. The total storage capacity of the brewery has thus increased by more than 20%. Three retention tanks have been built underground to capture up to 838 m3 of rainwater, which will be reused by the brewery to cool the production technology in the adjacent Gambrinus brewery.