It has now been announced that MHS Global (MHS), a provider of automation technology and system integration for material flow, and Fortna, a provider of software and system solutions for warehousing and distribution, merged in April to form a multi-billion dollar group offering a broad spectrum of parcel, warehouse and distribution and lifecycle services.
DHL Supply Chain, Deutsche Post DHL Group's specialist contract logistics division, is putting a new, highly automated fulfillment center into operation in Bergkamen for its customer IKEA.
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The Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Finland, has awarded Prof. Michael Henke an honorary doctorate.
Stöcklin at Winterhalter + Fenner
After a construction period of just over two years, Winterhalter + Fenner AG's new central warehouse in Wallisellen went into operation at the end of June 2020. The high-bay warehouse, the first of its kind in Switzerland to be built using timber construction, is part of a compact, highly dynamic overall system in which the flow of goods is routed over three storeys.
Despite a wide range of challenges, the Hekatron companies will close the 2021 financial year with a turnover of around 215 million euros. For the fire protection experts and EMS specialists, this means continued growth and an increase of 5.5 percent compared to the previous year.
After a two-year break, embedded world is back in Nuremberg. In parallel, the embedded world Conference and the electronic displays Conference invite visitors to exchange ideas.
Gebhardt SpeedSorter line presented
With the Gebhardt SpeedSorter line vertical crossbelt sorter, the Gebhardt Intralogistics Group is primarily targeting courier and parcel service providers as well as e-commerce providers.
Demag Cranes & Components will take over the automation of incoming goods and the feeding of the production areas for processing raw materials for Wilhelm Layher GmbH & Co KG in its new plant.
Under the project title "value chAIn", Krone is currently using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze optimization possibilities in terms of product and process quality, performance and availability.
P3 Logistic Parks, developer and owner of logistics properties in Europe, is planning around 140,000 square meters of logistics space in the JadeWeserPort freight village (GVZ) in Wilhelmshaven, Germany's only deep-water port.
The interim management duo Thilo Konig and Bernd Reckmann have started with the task of driving forward the necessary further development of Antalis Verpackungen. Astrid Voss will now build on this and take over the management of the company together with Bernd Reckmann.
Hörmann Logistik, general contractor for intralogistics systems, and Caja Robotics, a company for robotics and flexible goods-to-man solutions in order picking, announced their partnership at Logimat.
Never before have there been so many new start-ups in the sector recorded in the commercial register as in 2021, while insolvencies are at their lowest level for ten years. An observation that deserves a closer look.
Dematic expands its service portfolio
Dematic is offering its customers a visual inspection service for intralogistics systems: In future, the intralogistics specialist will enable them to carry out regular safety checks and visual inspections with the help of drones.
ek robotics, manufacturer and system integrator of automated guided vehicles (AGVs), announced its global technology partnership with OTTO Motors, a developer of autonomous mobile robots (AMR), at Logimat.
"After the fair is before the fair"
On June 9 from 10 a.m., Jungheinrich will be taking Logimat virtual into a new round. The company will be presenting its trade fair highlights as part of a digital event.
Thomann has been working with logistics solutions provider TGW since 2009. Now the music store has once again expanded its existing logistics center during ongoing operations. The order throughput time has been reduced to 20 minutes with an increase in articles to 90,000.
Volvo is the first truck manufacturer to introduce fossil-free steel in its trucks. The steel is produced by Swedish steel company SSAB and Volvo's heavy-duty electric trucks will be the first to use it.
Unitechnik implements logistics center for...
The fresh poultry specialist Borgmeier is building a modern logistics center at its Delbrück-Schöning site with Unitechnik. In future, automated intralogistics with a conveyor system and two large warehouses will take over handling between production and dispatch.
Pilz is looking forward to a record year in 2021: The group of companies achieved an increase in turnover of almost 22 percent, exceeding the turnover level of the pre-crisis year 2018. Growth is also planned for 2022, with more employees and a new business unit for railroad technology.
