materialfluss issue
04/2026

In this issue

• Packaging Technology: Packed to Fit Perfectly Instead of Shipping Air
• Conveyor Technology: Food Wholesaler Streamlines Intralogistics
• Material Handling Equipment: 117 New Forklifts and Smart Energy Management
• Software and Identification Systems

materialfluss issue
03/2026

In this issue

• LogiMAT 2026 in Stuttgart
• Warehouse technology: Exclusive - Interview with Benjamin Höller from SSI Schäfer on developments in the field of warehouse lifts
• Modernization: Multi-client fulfillment at speed
• AGVs, AGVs, and robotics: Automated pallet transport

materialfluss issue
01-02/2026

In this issue

• Shelving systems: These trends will shape warehouse organisation in the future
• Cranes: Material flow concepts for existing warehouses
• Industrial trucks – Energy management: Preventing power load peaks
• Logimat 2026: Logimat as a think tank for intralogistics

materialfluss issue
01/2026

In this issue

• The exclusive material flow ranking of leading system integrators
• 20 statements from top decision-makers on market developments
• The material flow Top 10 growth champions
• The material flow Top 10 leaders among system integrators in Germany

materialfluss issue The world of intralogistics

In this issue

• materialfluss Products of the Year 2026
• materialfluss Top 25 System Integrators
• Economic survey
• AGVs, AGVs and robotics

materialfluss issue
10/2025

In this issue

• Efficiency in cold storage: optimised cold chain logistics
• Focus on stacker cranes, shuttles and robotics
• Industrial trucks: technology, processes and infrastructure in harmony
• Logistics software: optimisation with AI, machine learning and more

materialfluss issue
08-09/2025

In this issue

• Fachpack: Preliminary reports on the trade fair in Nuremberg
• Focus on conveyor technology: New conveyor systems and components
• Logistics real estate: The challenge of vacancy rates – is the grey market an opportunity?
• Identification systems and identification components

materialfluss issue
06/2025

In this issue

• Interview: Rainer Baumgartner, Hörmann Intralogistics
• Forklift trucks: New features for explosion-proof goods handling
• Software: A digital overview of goods delivery
• Focus on intralogistics and transport software

materialfluss issue
05/2025

In this issue

• Transport Logistic: Preliminary reports on the trade fair in Munich
• Conveyor technology: Conveying fluently for more throughput
• AGVs and robotics: AMR for optimized warehouse logistics
• Focus on AGVs and robotics

materialfluss issue
04/2025

In this issue

• Warehouse technology: Logistics capacities for fashion in Europe
• Conveyor technology: smart combination of shuttle solutions
• Sensor technology: track-and-trace for parcel delivery
• Focus on storage and shelving systems

materialfluss issue
03/2025

In this issue

• LogiMAT 2025: Trade fair highlights at a glance
• Conveyor technology: Innovative systems and solutions
• Industrial trucks: automation with mobile robotics
• Focus on conveyor systems and components

materialfluss issue
01-02/2025

In this issue

• Highly automated warehouse for fresh produce logistics
• Robot-assisted goods-to-person picking
• Contract logistics for e-commerce
• Smart forklifts increase safety in factory traffic

materialfluss Issue
December 2024 World of intralogistics

In this issue

• materialfluss Products of the year 2025
• materialfluss Top 25 system integrators
• Business survey
• Electric forklift series with improved ergonomics

materialfluss Issue
10/2024

In this issue

• A high-bay warehouse for sensitive semiconductors
• Automotive supplier combines shuttle and AMR
• Racking systems and conveyor technology strongly combined
• How AGVs find their way

materialfluss Issue
08-09/2024

In this issue

• Fachpack: The meeting place for the packaging industry
• AGVs, AGVs and robotics: efficient, safe and scalable
• Smart AMR solution for e-commerce fulfillment
• Logistics real estate: Nearshoring - making supply chains more resilient

materialfluss Issue 05/2024

In this issue

• Warehouse technology: A look at the dark warehouse
• The challenge of small-scale production logistics
• AGVs, AGVs and robotics: Industrial truck technology is becoming intelligent
• Logistics software: mastering the digital transformation with WMS
• AI in logistics and intralogistics

materialfluss Issue 04/2024

In this issue

• materialfluss PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR 2024: the award ceremony and all the winners
  
• Order picking technology: the Kanban shelf goes digital
  
• Artificial intelligence: Will AI help logistics and intralogistics?
  
• Autonomous mobile robots: the path to better safety and security in the warehouse
  
• Safety and resilience strategies for AMR deployment
  

materialfluss Issue 03/2024

In this issue

• Logimat 2024: A preview of the trade fair and its product highlights
  
• Warehouse technology: Element Logic sets up multi-storey systems for space reduction
  
• Conveyor technology: Knapp automates fashion logistics center
  
• Magazino AMRs close the gap between small parts warehouse and work stations
  
• Artificial intelligence: AI trends that will shape the future of industrial robotics
  

materialfluss Issue 01-02/2024

In this issue

• Conveyor technology: Mini AGV conveyor line with automatic storage cube
  
• Industrial trucks: Heavy-duty transport vehicle for food manufacturers
  
• Logistics real estate: New construction volume to fall significantly in 2023
  
• Lifting technology: Automated Modula high-bay warehouse reduces storage space
  

Special edition World of Intralogistics 2023

In this issue

• materialfluss Top 25 system integrators: The exclusive ranking of the largest intralogistics companies
  
• Exclusive economic survey: industry experts and their expectations for 2024
  
• Readers' choice: Material Flow PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR 2024: All submissions at a glance
  
• Sustainable intralogistics with a fleet management system
  
• Automated distribution center

material flow PORTRAIT OF AN INDUSTRY - Issue 2023/2024

In this issue

• Company portraits: the industry's expertise and strengths

• Trend reports: Automation, e-commerce and co

• Market overview: 200 companies at a glance

• Addresses: Reliable data for contacts

Issue 10/2023

In this issue

• Movu Robotics: new brand, new Experience Center
  
• Interview with Carsten Schmidt, SEH Engineering, about conveyor systems and new perspectives
  
• Sick combines light curtains for safety and automation
  
• DS Automotion combines mobile robots and the control system
  
• Spare parts logistics: Toyota uses cloud-based proof-of-delivery solution

Issue 08-09/2023

In this issue

• Conveyor belt integrated into AGV: mobile workbenches for assembly
  
• Singulating system with robot cell technology
  
• Monorail and shuttle transport system: Intralogistics 4.0 for process automation at Airbus
  
• Industrial trucks in the automated material warehouse
  
• 5G campus networks for port terminals

Issue 07/2023

In this issue

• IFOY Award 2023
  The winners of the intralogistics award
  
• Special section on modernization
  Expert interviews, user reports, trends and solutions relating to modernization
  
• Warehouse and order picking technology
  Interview with Dematic: A carefree customer is the key to success
  
• Industrial trucks
  Modular system for autonomous mobile robots

Special edition World of Intralogistics 2022

In this issue

• Guest commentary
  Exclusive: Transport expert Prof. Dr. Schreckenberg
  
• materialfluss Top 25 system integrators
  Exclusive: The ranking of the largest intralogistics companies
  
• Economic survey
  Exclusive: Industry experts and their expectations for 2023

Issue 11/2022

In this issue

• Warehouse technology: 30 years of safety with Rite-Hite

• Conveyor technology: Anniversary: Interview with Fritz and Marco Gebhardt

• Transportation: Ford Trucks' generation of the future

Issue 10/2022

In this issue

• Racking technology: Innovation between shelf and warehouse

• Industrial trucks: Still's strategy for the coming year

• Products of the year: The application phase has begun

Issue 8-9/2022

In this issue

• Exclusive: SSI Schaefer's CEO Steffen Bersch reveals all

• Trade fair previews Fachpack: the highlights in Nuremberg on six pages

• Westfalia's efficient warehouse technology in the cold

• Exclusive: The development of Pfenning Logistics

Issue 7/2022

In this issue

• Conveying and lifting technology: Automation for success

• Green Logistics special section: Expert opinions and great case studies

• Strategy and management: Power in the company - curse and blessing...

Issue 6/2022

In this issue

• Conveyor technology: Focus on new conveyor systems and concepts

• Racking technology: Customized rack combi becomes a reference

• Logistics real estate: Projects with added value and sustainability in detail

Issue 5/2022

In this issue you can read, among other things

• ... everything about the Logimat trade fair and the most important exhibitors there

• ... an exclusive interview with the German face of Sparck Technologies

• ... in the software section, ingenious examples of efficient logistics and transport software

Issue 4/2022

In this issue

• All winners: The winners of the material flow PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR 2022

• Ferag's pocket sorter in use at Crocs

• Jungheinrich's review of the new electric pallet trucks

• An interview with PAKi CEO Groenewoud about modern pallet swapping

This issue contains an insert from WEKA BUSINESS MEDIEN.

Issue 1-2/2022

In this issue

• 21st TEAM Logistics Forum: What does the digital future of intralogistics look like?

• Economic survey: What will encourage the industry in 2022? Find out more in part two of the encouraging survey.

• Finished goods logistics: Gebhardt sets the pace for pharmaceutical retailers

• Exclusive interview: Interview with Interroll CEO Ingo Steinkrüger

• Frozen food logistics: Corona drives warehouse automation forward

Issue 10/2021

In this issue

• Scalable solutions for SMEs: From SMEs for SMEs

• Witron focuses on growth

• "VanAssist": This is what the delivery vehicle of the future could look like

• New series from Hubtex: A platform transporter for Industry 4.0

material flow PORTRAIT OF AN INDUSTRY - Issue 2021/2022

In this issue

• Company portraits: the industry's expertise and strengths

• Trend reports: automation, e-commerce and co

• Market overview: 200 companies at a glance

• Addresses: Reliable data for contacts

Issue 8-9/2021

In this issue you can read...

• Focus on AGVs, AGVs and robotics: all about these nimble things

• materialfluss PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR 2022: Apply now!

• Product test: Business headphones

• Anita Würmser on digital pearl diving

• Intra Logistik's opinion on industry awards

Issue 6/2021

The topics in this issue:

• Interviews with Andreas Krinninger (Still, Linde Material Handling, Baoli) and the bosses of Hüngsberg and IPP

• Text for the cover picture: How SSI Schäfer ensures speed in confined spaces

• materialfluss PRODUCT SUMMER: Eight pages of top intralogistics products

• A fresh cell cure for a rack storage system: ebm-papst shows how it's done

• Trakker successor: How is Iveco's new T-Way performing?

Issue 5/2021

The topics in this issue:

• News
  Dirk Hejnal from Körber Supply Chain in an exclusive interview

• Cover story
  In the fast lane with automated intralogistics from Gebhardt Fördertechnik

• Focus on warehouse and shelving technology
  Smart shelving provides an overview

• Conveying and lifting technology
  SRMs and shuttles bring speed to the warehouse

• Logistics and transportation
  A logistics campus for WILO

Issue 4/2021

The topics in this issue:

• materialflow products of the year
  Who made it onto the podium this time? These are the 2021 winners.

• Cover story
  From incoming goods to production at the touch of a button: more flexibility in pallet transportation with HaRo

• Focus on conveyor systems and components
  User reports and innovations from AMI Fördertechnik, Witron and Westfalia Logistic Solutions.

• Industrial trucks
  Exclusive: Geek+ and Körber cooperate

• Logistics and transportation
  Opportunities seized: The Amberger family celebrates its 75th anniversary in logistics

Issue 07/2020

• Up to date
  material flow PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR 2020

• Focus on
  New construction: short interviews and user reports

• Storage and picking technology
  Protective partitions prevent infections

• Software and identification systems
  Keeping an eye on food at all times

Issue 06/2020

• Up to date
  Virtual trade fair: Invitation to the materialfluss WORLD + CONFERENCE

• Focus on
  Exclusive: Fiege coordinates with PSI

• Storage and order picking technology
  Exclusive: Wasto-Pac relies on half pallets from Purus

• Conveying and lifting technology
  A luxury watch manufacturer relies on Stöcklin

• Software and identification systems
  Witron's Johannes Meißner on IT

Issue 05/2020

• Latest news
  Assemble-to-order: production logistics made easy

• Focus on
  The trends and innovations

• Storage and picking technology
  Contract logistics company ID Logistics relies on META

• Conveying and lifting technology
  Expanding families: Gebhardt's new StoreBiter shuttle

• Software and identification systems
  Flexible labeling with TSC