In one of the more modern plants in the refractory industry, transport processes are now almost fully automated: at RHI Magnesita in Radenthein, Austria - from the provision of raw materials to shipping. Twelve customized automated guided vehicles (AGVs) from EK robotics handle the internal material flow around the clock.

Vanderlande has been selected by Kmart to automate its new logistics facility at the Moorebank Intermodal Precinct in Sydney. To meet the Australian retail brand's requirements, the warehouse will be equipped with Fastpick, Vanderlande's goods-to-person order fulfillment system.

Lacroix Electronics, electronics supplier and part of the globally active Lacroix Group, has successfully optimized its inventory process with the help of Remira.

As part of the EU MODI project, two successful practical tests on the automation of heavy goods traffic were carried out this spring - both in the inner city area of Hamburg and on the highway. The project partners tested two important use cases in May with the involvement of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Conveyor technology is an essential part of many industrial processes. It enables the transportation of materials and products within production facilities. With the increasing digitalization and networking of industrial systems, IIoT gateways play a central role in monitoring and optimizing these processes.

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The winners of the IFOY Award 2025 were announced on July 3rd. Representatives from EP Equipment, Exotec, Geekplus, Interroll, Jungheinrich, Plancise and Still accepted the intralogistics award during the Award Night at the Phoenix des Lumières in Dortmund. The IFOY Start-up of the Year Award went to Filics.

The cooperation between the Swiss Coop Group Cooperative and SSI Schaefer is entering the next phase: With the award of the contract for the comprehensive release upgrade of the intralogistics software WAMAS, the company is focusing on a homogeneous, future-proof software landscape in intralogistics.

For companies, the disruption of supply chains is ultimately a matter of their economic existence. A threat to life? This aspect hardly plays a role in public perception. Yet supply chain management in critical infrastructure works in a similar way to that in companies. Transparency is therefore essential in order to plan precisely and monitor supply chains in real time. Software solutions for supply chain management provide valuable support here.

Depending on the hazardous substance and danger zone, explosion-protected industrial trucks have modifications to prevent ignition sources. This also means that new assistance systems on standard vehicles must be adapted. In order to meet the wishes of many logistics managers for uniformly high safety standards for the entire industrial truck fleet, Linde Material Handling has developed two additional features for explosion-protected models: the Linde Reverse Assist Camera and the Pre-Operational Check.

At this year's Automatica, everything at Yaskawa revolves around AI-based robotics solutions for the smart factory and beyond. As a trade fair highlight, the manufacturer is presenting its new Motoman Next product concept.

Together with Unitechnik, Wildeboer has developed an automated storage system at its headquarters in Weener that creates the basis for further growth.

The Board of the European Pallet Association (EPAL) approved the official launch of the new EPAL Pallet App on 20.03.2025. The web-based software facilitates pallet management and enables the tracking of goods and pallets. In particular, the app can also be used with the QR code on EPAL Euro pallets QR and other EPAL pallets with a QR code.

Dematic has received an order from the French shoe and clothing brand ERAM to automate its new distribution center in Chemillé-en-Anjou in western France. The decision is part of the strategy to make the fashion division's warehouse and distribution processes more efficient and modern.

Intralogistics is a complex interplay of means of transportation, digital control levels and dynamic processes. What is needed is holistic orchestration that integrates and scales systems from different manufacturers while ensuring process reliability. A practical example: the Noerpel Group. Noerpel has been offering solutions in the transport and logistics sector for more than 140 years. The Giengen I site relies on the Anyfleet automation platform from Idealworks .

Numerous locations, diverse products, individual customer requirements - JRS, J. Rettenmaier & Söhne, specializes in the production of functional plant fibres and ships parcels as well as big bags from Rosenberg. By retrofitting the high-bay warehouse during ongoing operations, the company improved its delivery capability and doubled its storage capacity.

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Since April 2025, Efaflex has been a member of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB), one of the world's leading associations for sustainable construction.

In many workshops and production facilities, everyday working life looks the same: Screwing, assembling, repairing and producing - and it's easy to lose focus on order: Tools are scattered around, materials cannot be found and work routes are unnecessarily long. The consequences range from loss of time and frustration to falling productivity and real safety risks. Well-designed shelving systems provide a remedy here.

Unloading pallets, delivering building materials and documenting receipts, notes and signatures for the delivery of goods - previously with pen and paper, today via smartphone or tablet: the building materials retailer Stark Deutschland was impressed by the advantages of the SAP-based goods delivery app FIS/LastMile during its one-year pilot phase at the sales brands Raab Karcher, Muffenrohr and Melle Gallhöfer, so that it is now being rolled out to the entire company.

With its solutions, Fronius aims to set new standards in the charging of industrial trucks and automated guided vehicles. These enable users and manufacturers to seamlessly integrate vehicles, chargers and lithium-ion batteries in automated environments.

For KWM Weisshaar, the ability to deliver is a key promise to its customers. This is why the sheet metal specialist relies on Kasto's storage solutions, including for the retrofit of the Kasto Unigrip buffer storage system. After a short conversion period, it has since been running smoothly again and ensuring process reliability.