Smartflow showcases at German trade fair

Mar 5 2008 by Barry Turnbull, Liverpool Daily Post

A TRACK and trace system for pallets developed by a Liverpool-based company was launched at the world’s biggest digital trade fair yesterday.

Smartflow, which allows customers to follow goods from the start to the end of the delivery process, was being showcased in Hanover, Germany.

SLR Technology is a German firm that set up in Liverpool after backing from the Liverpool Seed Fund.

The system has already been installed at German packaging manufacturer Heuchemer Verpackung. Managing director Christoph Heuchemer said: “We are the first company in our industry to use this innovative and very economical combination of a novel multiway plastic-pallet and a stable tracking and tracing solution. “We chose the Smartflow S.L.R. system because the relevant information on tracking and tracing links directly with our own systems.”

Stephan Willigens, managing director of SLR, said, “The Smartflow pallet is bundled Šwith SLR’sŠtrack and trace software meaning that it is always traceable.”