The loading technology experts at Rite-Hite have opened a training and exhibition center at their service headquarters in Weilerbach, Rhineland-Palatinate.

The Gütegemeinschaft Paletten e.V. held its first fully digital general meeting on October 1. held its first fully digital general meeting. The Board of Directors was confirmed and the Advisory Board was newly composed.

The Vanderlande branch in Mönchengladbach celebrates its 50th anniversary as the first and therefore logically the oldest German location of the Dutch group.

With the Linde V modular B vertical order picker, Linde Material Handling is launching a new high-rack stacker onto the market.

This year, Efaflex Tor- und Sicherheitssysteme, manufacturer of high-speed industrial doors, is sponsoring the StaplerCup for the first time.

Ford trucks launch on the German market. Manufacturer Ford Otosan is relying on F-Trucks Deutschland GmbH as a partner.

Klaus Burgstaller is the new Business Development Director at Tachofresh. The company has been developing solutions for the transportation and logistics industry for 25 years.

The shipping and logistics company DFDS has placed an order with Volvo Trucks for 100 Volvo FM Electric trucks. This is the largest commercial order for electric trucks for the manufacturer to date.

Tsubaki Kabelschlepp is expanding its portfolio upwards and downwards, adding larger and smaller variants of the proven chain types.

DELO Industrie Klebstoffe has digitized and optimized its shipping process with software from AEB SE

The Mechafant will be on public display for the first time at stand 5205 in hall 5. It is able to independently pick up loaded Euro pallets from the ground in order to transport them autonomously to their destination and unload them there.

Nadine Stoppa is the second top manager to move from Kühne+Nagel to TST within a few weeks (we reported).

The intralogistics company Swisslog is filling three senior management positions and emphasizes in the press release: "All of the job holders are committed to both the stability and growth of the company."

The decision for or against an automated solution is often characterized by prejudices: Automation scores with higher speed and better space utilization with lower operating costs, but requires a high investment and makes logistics less flexible.

For three days (September 28 to 30), the trade fair for packaging, technology and processes was a "firework of innovation and inspiration for the packaging industry", according to the trade fair organizers.

The transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss takes over the operations of Wolf Internationale Spedition GmbH and Air System Luftfracht Spedition GmbH in Straubing, Lower Bavaria.

Nagel-Group becomes a partner of the Digital Hub Logistics Hamburg. With the Digital Hub Initiative of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Nagel-Group supports the exchange of technological and economic expertise.

materialfluss spoke to José Manuel Lucio, the new Commercial Director EMEA of AR Racking, developer and manufacturer of intralogistics systems, about the upcoming strategy and the added value that the Spanish company wants to offer.

The name change comes after the investor Standard Investment from Amsterdam acquired the packaging division of Quadient in Drachten, the Netherlands, on August 1.