The AS/RS technology, which you can see in action in a brief video at the end of this story,
contains three storage and retrieval machines (or cranes) which operate in three aisles, serving storage lanes five deep, and storing pallets six levels high. The cranes are each wrapped in Buffalo Trace’s logo, and have been named Albert, George, and Edmund in honor of Buffalo Trace’s founding fathers, Albert Blanton, George T. Stagg and Edmund Haynes (or “E. H.”) Taylor. Each crane can induct/output 55 pallets of finished goods per hour or a total of 165 pallets moving within the system. The AS/RS contains 20 pallet staging lanes which can hold 180 total pallets.
This $20 million investment, as mentioned before, is just the latest construction project Buffalo Trace has completed on site in recent times. Some of the previous projects include, in early July, a 5,500 square foot expansion of its visitor center, which contained event space and four tasting bars and also the opening of its refurbished Old Taylor House, which dates back to the late 1700s and is the oldest residential property in the surround county.
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