SANDWICH IS MOVING OUR BREAD !

Most of you have probably heard about our famous, but misunderstood, SANDWICH casters. If you've never heard of this special caster, then this success story of a Canadian bread manufacturer should catch your attention.

Some of you may have noticed that some bread manufacturers use four wheel carts to deliver bread from their facilities to your local grocery store.

One of our customers, who was using 3" solid nylon casters, decided to reduce replacement costs, therefore in 2002 we recommended our 4" SANDWICH casters. Since then, this bread manufacturer has seen a significant decrease in the number of casters replaced.

The solid nylon wheels originally used could not absorb the continuous shocks when, for example, the carts were accidentally dropped from the delivery trucks onto the pavement. Many wheels would break in half, resulting in tremendous drawbacks: maintenance time, money and non-use of equipment. Our customer wanted to keep using hard wheels because of the ergonomic issues involved, (hardest wheels result in lowest starting efforts), but they also needed the shock absorbing capabilities of soft and elastic rubber wheels. This is why we offered the SANDWICH casters: Shock absorption combined with minimal starting effort and noise reduction which are the three fundamental characteristics behind the SANDWICH wheel's design. (Sandwich Wheel).

Today, this bread manufacturer has reached its cost saving goals by investing with Bleutec casters. We have since sold to them over 40,000 units of the 4" Sandwich casters.

Frederic Lagace