Manfred Schleicher, Managing Director Element Logic Germany (14th place)
"Element Logic, the world's first official AutoStore integrator, has also been able to realize impressive AutoStore projects for well-known customers from industry and logistics in 2022. At present, the order books are still well filled. However, the current economic forecasts for Germany and the eurozone indicate that, due to the various price increases caused by the energy crisis, general economic output is likely to stagnate at best in the near future, or even decline. It remains to be seen what effect this will have in the areas of automation and digitalization of intralogistics. Personally, I could also imagine that the background outlined above will lead companies with a solid equity ratio to invest in process optimization and sustainability in order to consolidate and expand their competitive position. From this perspective, I am confident about developments in 2023."