Rollex Förderelemente, a manufacturer of components for intralogistics applications, announces the start of construction of a new plant at its headquarters in Werne.

The companies System Alliance Europe eG (SAE) and Timocom have entered into a strategic partnership. The primary aim of the collaboration is to set up a closed freight exchange, which the freight tech company will establish for Europe's largest general cargo cooperation.

With the Distribo 3.0 logistics hall, the transport and logistics service provider Zufall Logistics Group aims to set a new benchmark for sustainable logistics properties. Planned in 2021 under the aspects of process reliability, technological openness and sustainability, the building expands the Groner Siekanger logistics center, which has been in existence since 2014. Zufall invested more than 20 million in the project.

Wayzim, a system manufacturer for intelligent logistics equipment, vision systems and industrial sensors based in Wuxi, China, is expanding its activities on the European market.

Before a semiconductor reaches the end customer, it travels around the world up to twice in an airplane. This poses major challenges for the semiconductor industry - both logistically and in terms of meeting clear sustainability targets.

Mick Mountz, Dr. Peter Wurman and Prof. Dr. Raffaello D'Andrea, the three founders of Kiva Systems, were officially inducted into the Logistics Hall of Fame at a gala reception in the Erich Klausener Hall of the Federal Ministry of Transport in Berlin. The "Logistics Leader of the Year Award 2024" and the Lynn C. Fritz Medal for Excellence in Humanitarian Logistics were also presented on the evening.

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Nagel-Group, a European food logistics company, is expanding its infrastructure in Poland: In Zabrze, an industrial city in the heart of Silesia, a modern service and logistics complex will be put into operation from the second half of 2025.

According to the Federal Statistical Office, German industry recorded a slight decline in orders of 1.5 percent in October, but positive revisions for the previous month and surprisingly strong annual figures are creating optimism.

The ferag.spiral spiral conveyor has been nominated as materialfluss Product of the Year 2025 in Category 2: Conveying and Lifting Technology.

Kellenberger AG from Goldach, Switzerland, merged four locations into one in 2023. In order to digitalize the logistics processes and make them more efficient, SSI Schaefer implemented a holistic logistics solution consisting of six SSI Logimat storage lifts including the matching Wamas Lift & Store software. The solution has been nominated as materialfluss Product of the Year 2025 in Category 1: Warehouse and picking technology.

Stöcklin realized a rock wall channel storage system with a customized, hybrid wood-steel rack construction for the storage of drill cores from the Mont Terri rock laboratory in Switzerland. The solution has been nominated as materialfluss product of the year 2025 in category 1: Storage and picking technology.

ItemPiQ is an automated picking robot for logistics environments from Swisslog that relies on the Kuka Agilus robot. The AI-supported picking robot has been nominated as materialfluss product of the year 2025 in category 1: Warehouse and picking technology.

The software company Soloplan presents CarLo Assistant, an AI tool that provides assistance to users of the CarLo transport management system (TMS).

Nominated for the category 5 Project of the Year: 299 AMRs and new goods-to-person stations allow 3PL fashion provider Radial to increase picking performance while maintaining flexible processes despite high article volumes.

The Smart-Flexdepot is an automated storage and picking system with chaotic, volume-optimized storage using the shuttle principle. The system has been nominated as materialfluss Product of the Year 2025 in Category 1: Storage and picking technology.

The AutoStore Multi-Temperature Solution enables multiple temperature zones within a single AutoStore cube. The solution has been nominated as materialfluss product of the year 2025 in category 1: Storage and picking technology.

The Narrow Belt Sorter from Wayzim is a linear sorting system based on the cross-belt sorter philosophy, designed to efficiently handle a variety of package types with different sizes. The system has been nominated for materialfluss Product of the Year 2025 in Category 2: Conveying and Lifting Technology.

The Robin'6 communication solution is based on the latest Wi-Fi 6 standard and replaces outdated Wi-Fi 4/5 devices that are nearing the end of their life cycle. Robin'6 has been nominated as materialfluss product of the year 2025 in category 3: Industrial trucks and components.

Nominated in category 3 Industrial trucks and components: The reach trucks of the ESR-1200 series combine productivity with energy efficiency while reducing the ecological footprint.

Nominated in category 3 Industrial trucks and components: the Bin-to-Picker AMR solution from Dematic.