Paper and Board

We help businesses achieve safer and more efficient operations through a combination of automation, software, equipment, and intralogistics expertise tailored to their specific needs.

Optimise material flow from production to dispatch

As a paper and board manufacturer, you need reliable, efficient, and flexible material handling solutions to keep production running smoothly. From paper rolls and pulp bales to pallets of finished products, every movement impacts productivity, costs, and safety.

At Logisnext, we take a holistic approach to intralogistics to help you identify the right combination of AGVs, manual forklifts, conveyors, warehouse software, or other equipment and solutions needed to create seamless material flows across the entire operation.

By integrating automation, manual equipment, and intelligent software, you can improve efficiency, reduce product damage, increase safety, and optimise resource utilisation, resulting in better ROI. Automation can support processes such as reel warehousing, production feeding, pallet handling, and material transport, as Rocla AGV Solutions allow you to automate your in-house transport and warehousing of paper rolls, pallets of sheeted products and pulp bales. This way, manual operators can handle other more value-added tasks such as quality, process optimisation, shipping coordination, and continuous improvement, helping the entire operation become safer, more productive, and more efficient.

Meanwhile, FleetController software provides visibility and coordination across the operation and keeps all systems connected and working as a single fleet.

With the right solutions, you can optimise your material flow, reduce damage to goods and increase safety

Whether upgrading an existing facility or planning a new one, we design solutions that fit your processes today and can adapt as your business evolves tomorrow.

Suitable vehicles for your operation

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Bale Clamp AWT

This solution is ideal for automated transport and warehousing of pulp bales at pulp mills, distribution warehouses, and paper and board mills.Logisnext Europe has helped a number of customers solve logistics challenges by improving material flow in the paper, print, packaging, and tissue industries over the years. Here, vehicles such as the Bale Clamp AWT have been key. With our modular AGVs and cutting-edge software, we standardise, digitalise, and automate material handling, using the most rational option in each case. Our solutions offer a wide range of reliable and efficient applications in the paper industry, such as newsprint day storage and the commercial printing industry.With automation, you keep your goods moving, improve safety on the work floor, avoid damage to products, buildings or machinery, and ensure better product traceability. In particular, the Bale Clamp AWT offers transfers from a bale-wrapping line or a truck being unloaded to pulp storage. It can also operate pulp storage, transport material to de-wiring stations, prepare truck loading, as well as handle unpalletised square loads. It offers a lifting height of up to 7.25 m and a load capacity of up to 2,000 kg.The Bale Clamp AWT meets the ISO 3691-4 safety standard requirement. It has comprehensive safety features like 360° safety fields and side clearance monitoring. By signalling its status with lights and sound, this AGV makes the warehouse work safer and more efficient. Other available safety features allow AGVs, forklifts and people to work together in shared spaces.

Transfer from a bale-wrapping line or truck unloading to pulp storage
Operation of pulp storage
Transport to the de-wiring stations
Preparation of truck loading
Lifting height: 7.25 m
Loads of up to 2,000 kg

Roll Clamp AWT

The Roll Clamp AWT is ideal for efficient and reliable roll handling in the paper industry. In addition, suits well the packaging and printing industries, as well as those performing tissue and plastic roll handling. The Roll Clamp AWT features rotating clamps that enable flexible, reliable material handling as your applications require.This Rocla AGV is specifically designed for reel handling applications and is an ideal system for vertical and horizontal reel transport in printing houses, paper mills, converting, and more. It is a versatile solution for variable roll diameters and widths. The clamps can handle loads up to 6,000 kg, and the modular design enables combining tried-and-tested components with automation.The Roll Clamp AWT meets the ISO 3691-4 safety standard requirement. It has comprehensive safety features like 360° safety fields and side clearance monitoring. By signalling its status with lights and sound, this AGV makes the warehouse work safer and more efficient. Other available safety features allow AGVs, forklifts and people to work together in shared spaces.

Up to 6,000 kg loads
Variable roll diameters and widths
Lifting capacity: 7.25 m
Clamp with rotating and tilting features available as an option

Reel Fork AWT

For efficient, reliable reel handling, we offer the Reel Fork AWT as a solution for the paper, packaging, and printing industries, as well as for tissue and plastic reel handling.This Rocla AGV is specifically designed for reel handling applications. It is an ideal system for horizontal reel transport in printing houses, paper mills, converting, and more. It is a versatile solution, with variable reel diameters and widths. The forks can be either fixed or adjustable, and can handle loads of up to 8,000 kg. The modular design enables the combination of tried-and-tested components with automation. The Reel Fork AWT is available as a solution for light, medium, and heavy loads, with special models for your specific loads also available.The Reel Fork AWT meets the ISO 3691-4 safety standard requirement. It has comprehensive safety features like 360° safety fields and side clearance monitoring. By signalling its status with lights and sound, this AGV makes the warehouse work safer and more efficient. Other available safety features allow AGVs, forklifts and people to work together in shared spaces.

Designed specifically for reel handling
Ideal for horizontal reel transport
Variable reel diameters and widths
Fixed or adjustable forks
Loads of up to 6,000 kg
Modular design
Light-, medium-, or heavy-load solutions
Special models for customer-specific loads

Counterbalance AWT

The Counterbalance Automated Warehouse Truck is perfect when your facility needs to use storage floor space optimally, or when your pallet transportation or warehouse calls for push-back and drive-in racks. It is a suitable AGV in a wide range of applications, given its lifting height of up to 8.4 m and permitted loads of up to 2,500 kg. This vehicle is compatible with drive-in racks and suitable for push-back racks. It is also an ideal solution for gravity-flow racks. Due to its structure, the Counterbalance AWT is optimal in applications where support legs, otherwise known as straddle options, cannot be used.The Counterbalance AWT meets the ISO 3691-4 safety standard requirement. It has comprehensive safety features like 360° safety fields and side clearance monitoring. By signalling its status with lights and sound, this AGV makes the warehouse work safer and more efficient. Other available safety features allow AGVs, forklifts and people work together in shared spaces.

Ideal for applications where support legs (straddle options) cannot be used
Loads of up to 2,500 kg
Compatibility with drive-in racks
Lifting capacity: 8.4 m
An ideal solution for gravity-flow racks
Suitability for push-back racks

Conveyor AWT

The Rocla Conveyor AWT AGV is excellent for expanding the functionality of conveyor systems. It operates as an unfixed conveyor that can serve several fixed conveyors and keeps materials flowing. This keeps areas open for forklift and human traffic. The AGV system also leaves the floor space open for easy cleaning and maintenance.Being unfixed allows a flexible application where needed. A fleet of AGVs provides redundancy, making the overall system more resilient to failures. While a conveyor system failure usually suspends all material movement in the process, with the AGV system, the material keeps moving even if one vehicle is non-operational. The AGV system also leaves the floor space open for easy cleaning and maintenance.This Rocla AGV is flexible, with a variable transfer height as well as the vertical conveyor functionality available as options.The Conveyor AWT meets the ISO 3691-4 safety standard requirement. It has comprehensive safety features like 360° safety fields and side clearance monitoring. By signalling its status with lights and sound, this AGV makes the warehouse work safer and more efficient. Other available safety features allow AGVs, forklifts and people to work together in shared spaces.

Expands the functionality of conveyor systems
Operates as an unfixed conveyor
Can serve several fixed conveyors
Variable transfer height as an option
Load capacity: 2 x 2,500 kg
Keeps operating area open for both human and forklift traffic
Transfer height of up to 950 mm

Automated Reach Truck (ART)

The Automated Reach Truck (ART) is a multipurpose solution designed to lift up to 1600 kg in aisles with free space as narrow as 2.85 m and well-suited to large warehousing operations.With several models available, we can offer solutions tailored to customer needs. New and innovative software and sensor technologies considerably increase load-handling speed, and the 10 m lifting capacity and agile turning radius aim to fulfil the requirements of the most common warehouses and make ART a great companion for other workers and vehicles in the facility.Designed to meet the ISO 3691-4 safety standard requirements and in line with the rest of our offering, ART features several safety features, including safety scanners and residual load monitoring. Safety is complemented by fluency-enhancing accessories, such as the Proximity Detection System (PDS), which improves the coexistence of AGVs, lift trucks, and people in a shared warehouse environment.The unique safety installation creates a dynamic field in the moving direction, which allows the vehicle to turn faster. The residual load monitoring constantly monitors speed, load weight, height, and reach position.During load handling, collision detection ensures the operation is performed efficiently.ART is the winner of the Red Dot Design Award 2025.

Fast and reliable load handling
Agile turning radius
Safe operations with advanced safety scanner setup
Lifting capacity: 10 m
Can operate in 2.85 m-wide aisles
Precise load handling

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Frequently Asked Questions in the Paper and Board Industry

AGVs excel in repetitive, predictable flows like pallet transport, and staging to docks, while human workforce is better suited for more creative and added-value tasks.

While our AGVs also excel at clear handoff points such as conveyors, pick/put stations, when introducing automation for the first time you can start with high-volume, stable routes for the fastest ROI and leave the rest to human operators.

Not all processes can and should be automated, and we recommend the optimal automation approach, which combines human flexibility and intelligence with AGV controllability and reliability.

Our experts can analyse your processes and design a solution tailored to your needs.

Moreover, Rocla AGVs can be introduced step by step. By doing so, the new system can be integrated without upheaval, and teams can adapt and learn as they go.

Stacked reel warehouses can be efficiently automated using Rocla clamp AGVs. Typically, after the winder process, reels are transferred into the warehouse via conveyor.

The AGVs then stack the reels according to instructions from the Warehouse Management System (WMS), which can also be supplied by us. Loads are prepared in the dock area for manual trailer loading. For converting operations, the warehousing process is quite similar, although the material flows may differ slightly.

Yes. Rocla AGVs comply with ISO 3691-4 safety standards and use advanced sensors for obstacle detection. Together with additional options, such as the Proximity Detection System (PDS), they ensure safe and reliable operations in shared environments.

Additionally, we can also help design safe traffic zones and SOPs for the operators. In a mixed‑fleet environment, where AGVs and manual forklifts operate together, fluent traffic relies on both resources following the correct operating practices. When each vehicle behaves as expected, the system can function in seamless, reliable collaboration.

Rocla AGVs can automate the feeding of raw materials into various converting processes, such as sheeters in paper or board mills, or in separate converting plants.

Since converting infeed typically requires reels to be in a horizontal position, our reel fork AGVs are generally preferred for this task. It is also possible to use clamp AGVs equipped with rotating or tilting clamps, although this approach may involve certain limitations depending on the reel size, weight, and material type.

The number of vehicles needed required is determined by the transport frequencies, travel distances, and overall material‑flow demands in your process. Every facility is different, which is why fleet sizing is always project‑specific.

At Logisnext, we analyse your transport matrix, peak‑time workloads, and layout constraints to define the optimal fleet type and size, ensuring high availability, balanced utilisation, and the best return on investment. This is a core part of our expertise, and we develop the right solution together with you.