Dr. Thomas Barthel has been the new Head of Sales at Paul Vahle GmbH & Co. KG since August 2021. As Chief Sales Officer, he will also join the Executive Board and be part of the Vahle Group's Global Management Team.

lan Penhale, Supply Chain Director at Boots, is responsible for supplying over 2,300 stores in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Within just three weeks, Boots and Witron converted the processes in the automated central warehouse from pure store logistics to the e-commerce business.

Clark Europe is also helping people in need after the floods in western Germany and is supporting the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) in the disaster relief operation at the Nürburgring.

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. But are these advantages and disadvantages really true?

As part of its digitalization strategy, the Nagel-Group, Germany's largest food logistics company, has awarded Essen-based DextraData GmbH the contract to operate its data centers.

With over 300 employees, Helmut Fischer GmbH has been developing and manufacturing metrological solutions for industry and laboratories since 1953. The company opted for lean lifts from Hänel when modernizing its warehouse.

The Linde Warehouse Navigator is designed to help small and medium-sized companies to organize all warehouse processes digitally.

Rob Smith is to become the new Chief Executive Officer of KION Group AG. The intralogistics group's Supervisory Board has appointed the 56-year-old to succeed long-serving Chief Executive Officer Gordon Riske with effect from January 1, 2022.

To the east of Gera, in the Korbwiesen industrial estate in Korbußen, Logivest has brokered a production hall and warehouse measuring around 2,000 square meters to Marigan Bio Extracts GmbH.

If intralogistics systems have been in use for decades, maintenance and repair will eventually reach their limits. Retrofitting is then an option to ensure the operation of a high-bay warehouse, for example, and at the same time make it even more efficient with new functions and technologies.

The new "Warehouse Healing" development from S&P Computersysteme minimizes travel times by intelligently placing products.

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DB Schenker has launched its new Schenker Ventures unit, which aims to drive innovation in logistics by supporting and collaborating with entrepreneurs.

In September 2021, logistics provider Transco will put an AutoStore into operation at its Gottmadingen logistics center, marking its entry into automated e-fulfillment. The fully automated warehouse is already largely fully booked before the launch.

The Stahlgruber Group has had one of its almost 180 stores in Pforzheim for many years. This branch was recently extensively renovated and extended. A central element of the extension: a three-storey shelving system from META.

In the year of the company's 150th anniversary, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is welcoming over 160 junior employees from 13 nations in Germany alone.

With the Virtual Guard - a virtual guard tour - a provider of real-time intervention in the security industry is developing an alternative for monitoring commercial properties.

At its "Welcome Day", Still welcomed a total of 59 new trainees and dual students who are starting their training at nine company locations across Germany. The training team welcomed the career starters in person at the company headquarters in Hamburg.

As an official logistics partner, Gebrüder Weiss supports the "Swissloop Tunneling" research team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. The ETH team is involved in the technical development of the high-speed Hyperloop system.

A new Linde H80D/1100 Series 396 diesel forklift truck has recently been setting the pace in the Schierer Baustoffe warehouse.

Anyone who has ever used a tube lifter knows that the operation of previous devices goes against natural logic and is not instinctive. According to the manufacturer, users can therefore look forward to the new Force-Lift tube lifter all the more.