Rolling mill expansion at Constantia Teich: Sustainable aluminum production

Expansion of A Rolling Mill Third Expansion in the Coil High-Bay Warehouse

2025-09-23 A guest contribution by Christoph Miller | Translated by AI 2 min Reading Time

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For the rolling mill expansion at Constantia Teich in the Lower Austrian Pielach Valley, Vollert supported with a precise extension of the existing aluminum coil high-bay warehouse to a length of 492 feet.

For Constantia Teich, Vollert expanded an existing high-bay warehouse, including system technology and final conformity testing.(Image: Vollert) — For Constantia Teich, Vollert expanded an existing high-bay warehouse, including system technology and final conformity testing.
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As part of the Constantia Flexibles Group, Constantia Teich is a leading company in the European flexible packaging industry. The world's largest manufacturer of yogurt lids holds a top position in the packaging market for the food, confectionery, and pharmaceutical industries, while also supplying the group companies with aluminum foil as a raw material—rolled from 0.024 inches to the desired thickness of 0.0002 to 0.0063 inches. With the expansion of the rolling mill at the main plant in the Pielach Valley, Constantia Flexibles promotes more sustainable local aluminum production while also strengthening European supply chains.

And the group also relies on cutting-edge technologies from European suppliers in terms of technology: As part of the 53 million US dollars total investment, the intralogistics specialists from Vollert undertook the third expansion stage of the existing high-bay warehouse (HBW) and extended it by 164 feet to a total of 492 feet. The HBW serves as an intermediate storage area for aluminum coils weighing up to 14.3 US short tons between rolling processes and can accommodate both hot coils in annealing frames and coils on spools. This is made possible by a special hybrid holder on the lift basket. The new stacker crane from Vollert, together with an existing device, ensures the storage and retrieval on seven levels. In total, the high-bay warehouse includes 450 storage spaces that can be used for both coils and returned empty spools.

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Highly flexible: The storage and retrieval machine from Vollert stores and retrieves empty spools, coils on spools, or hot coils in annealing racks.(Image: Vollert)

The intralogistics experts from Vollert also provided the control and safety technology and ensured the connection to the existing systems.(Image: Vollert)

At the eight entry and exit points of the high-bay warehouse, transfer cars from Vollert handle the loading and unloading of aluminum coils weighing up to 13 tons.(Image: Vollert)

Existing Technology Put to the Test

"The high-bay warehouse originally dates back to 2008 and was built by another manufacturer and already expanded once," explains Bastian Binnig, Sales Project Manager at Vollert. "However, this company is no longer active in the market. We specialize in such cases and can also refurbish third-party systems and integrate them into our systems. This also includes integrating the safety technology into the existing control system and carrying out the final testing and declaration of conformity." A task requiring special expertise, which the heavy-load experts at Vollert have acquired through several hundred high-bay warehouse projects over the past decades.

Fourfold Connection to Rolling Mill And Cutting Line

In total, the expanded high-bay warehouse at Constantia Teich features multiple connections to the rolling lines as well as additional inlets and outlets to the cutting line. Alongside the steel construction and the control and safety technology, Vollert, as the general contractor, also supplied two transfer carts for loading and unloading the coils to the rolling and cutting lines, two systems for turning and lifting, and two spool manipulators. After the final rolling and cutting process, the coils move on for further processing, while the empty spools are returned to the HBW and stored by the stacker cranes for the next rolling processes.

From the start of construction to commissioning, the Vollert team took about twelve months to expand the high-bay warehouse. In May 2025, the expanded rolling mill was officially inaugurated. This enables Constantia Teich to increase its capacities, particularly in strategic growth areas such as coffee capsules, pharmaceutical, and food packaging. The plant covers the entire value chain—from rolling to printing to the final product.

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Expansion of A Rolling Mill Third Expansion in the Coil High-Bay Warehouse

Existing Technology Put to the Test

Fourfold Connection to Rolling Mill And Cutting Line

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