2,500㎡ a Day, 60% Faster: Gausium Beetle Transforms Warehouse Cleaning at Loulis Food Ingredients

Overview

Loulis Food Ingredients S.A. is a Greece-based company specializing in the production and distribution of flour and flour-related products. To enhance operational efficiency, the company partnered with Gerobo International, Gausium’s official distributor in Greece. Together, they deployed the Beetle—Gausium’s compact and intelligent autonomous industrial sweeper—in the company’s warehouse.

End User: Loulis Food Ingredients

Industry: Flour Production and Distribution

Location: Greece

Product Deployed: 1 Beetle unit with charging dock

Implementation Date: June 28, 2025

Application Area: Main distribution area, storage aisles, and general warehouse zones

The Challenge

The warehouse at Loulis Food Ingredients manages the daily distribution of flour-based products. This results in large amounts of flour dust accumulating on the floors, along with wooden fragments and plastic particles from pallets and wrapping materials. Cleaning these residues was time-consuming and labor-intensive.

The traditional cleaning method relied on staff using manual push sweepers. This not only consumed significant time but also drained energy from personnel and took them away from other important internal tasks. The need for a more efficient, autonomous solution became clear.

The Gausium Solution

Beetle proved to be the ideal solution for the warehouse’s demanding conditions, offering a range of advanced features that made both operation and maintenance simple and effective:

• Advanced AI-powered Navigation: Enables precise route planning and intelligent obstacle avoidance in dynamic environments such as warehouses.
• App-based Programming: The Gausium Mobile App allows for intuitive daily task programming and management, simplifying operation for on-site personnel.
• High Debris Collection Efficiency: Capable of collecting fine dust, pallet wood splinters, plastic wrapping, and other common industrial floor waste.
• Autonomous Operation: Reduces the need for constant human supervision, allowing cleaning to be scheduled and executed independently.
• Compact & Agile Design: Maneuvers easily through narrow warehouse aisles and storage zones without disruption to ongoing operations.

The Beetle’s seamless integration into the warehouse cleaning workflow enabled the Loulis team to automate repetitive cleaning tasks while maintaining high hygiene standards across expansive areas.

Results & Impact

The deployment of the Beetle has significantly transformed the cleaning process at Loulis Food Ingredients. With automated sweeping across 2,500㎡ per day, the warehouse maintains a higher standard of cleanliness with much less effort.

Key results include:

• 60% Reduction in Cleaning Time: Significantly faster coverage of distribution areas, storage aisles, and general warehouse floors.
• 80% Reduction in Manual Inspection Efforts: Nearly eliminated the need for staff to walk the facility and visually locate scattered trash and debris. 
• Full Coverage Across 3 Zones: Ensures comprehensive cleaning with consistent quality.
• Improved Workforce Efficiency: Personnel previously tied to cleaning tasks are now available for more value-driven responsibilities.
• Seamless Daily Operation: The robot runs on scheduled cleaning routines with minimal setup, reducing staff intervention and maximizing uptime.

About Loulis Food Ingredients

Loulis Food Ingredients is one of the leading Flour, baking and food ingredients company in south east Europe. With 4 state of the art manufacturing plants in Greece and Bulgaria, Loulis Food Ingredients covers the B2B and B2C market with a wide portfolio of products ranging from flour, ready to use mixes, improvers, sauces and fillings and other ingredients for the food industry.

Having started 240 years ago in rural Greece from a small stone mill, the Loulis family along with its amazing team of 400 employees is successfully leading the company in the 21st century always following its core values of Quality, Passion, Sustainable Growth, Respect, Trustworthiness & Improvement.

About Gerobo International

Gerobo International is a Robotics, Cobotics, AMR’s –  Cleaning, Service robots, AI Drones and Cyber Security solutions company . The company provides high end automation and custom solutions to Industry, Logistics, Shipping, Healthcare and Ho.Re.Ca sectors. The company’s motto is ‘People First, Robots Next!’, as it is inspired by the dynamically developing and increasingly applicable technological developments in the context of  Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 & 5.0 automation and the human collaborative interaction with robotics and IoT.