From materialfluss 1-2/2020
Intra Logistik: Crash is not king
Times may be bad, but one industry is always booming: that of disaster prophets. If you walk into a bookshop, you pass by counters and walls of bestsellers with titles such as "The biggest crash of all time", "The crash is the solution", "World system crash" and "The crash is here".
Some authors emphasize their knowledge of German and use the headlines: "Sonst knallt's" or "Nach dem Kollaps". The tenor: The bubble bursts, the stock markets shake, the euro ends, the gap widens, the elites don't care, the politicians are asleep, buy my book. Anyone who hasn't planted an apple tree today is a day late anyway. Basically the same content as every year since 2008, only more drastic. This increases profits with a doomsday mood.
How good that we are operating in a solid industry, as we were once again able to experience at a press event at a user in Thuringia at the end of last year: "Despite the changeable economic situation, intralogistics is a stable industry," said viastore CEO Philipp Hahn-Woernle, summing up the review of 2019 and the outlook for 2020. His company's incoming orders and turnover are growing solidly, the prospects are good and customers are increasingly relying on integrated processes in logistics and production. Since 2013, his company has doubled its total output, the number of employees is rising continuously and would rise even more if there were enough skilled workers on the market.
viastore is by no means an isolated case; the intralogistics sector is characterized by stable companies. And the good thing is that you can see this for yourself. For example, at LogiMAT from March 10 to 13 in Stuttgart.
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