
Novoferm takes over Robust AB
The Novoferm Group is expanding its own market position with the acquisition of Swedish steel door manufacturer Robust AB. The acquisition of 100 percent of the shares in Robust AB was sealed in mid-May.

The Novoferm Group is expanding its own market position with the acquisition of Swedish steel door manufacturer Robust AB. The acquisition of 100 percent of the shares in Robust AB was sealed in mid-May.

Picavi's Glass Enterprise Edition 2 data glasses are a revamped Google product designed to take assisted order picking to a new level using wearable data processing.

foodforplanet GmbH & Co KG, part of Erbacher the food family, a company specializing in premium food for livestock and pets, enlisted the support of Pierau Planung to answer the question of the right logistics.

With immediate effect, transport equipment manufacturer fetra is offering three new versions of its material racks.

Logistics center for food retailers
Witron is already building the sixth fully automated frozen food logistics center for Spanish food retailer Mercadona. The facility in Guadix, southern Spain, is scheduled to go into operation at the beginning of 2021.

Modernization of warehouse technology
At LogiMAT 2019, SSI Schaefer was awarded the contract by Ekato to restructure the warehouse and intralogistics processes at its headquarters in Schopfheim.

Racking specialist AR Racking from Zamudio, Biskaia/Spain, has recently realized a manual pallet warehouse with 15,000 storage locations for the Spanish food manufacturer Ybarra.

Lenord + Bauer is an internationally active specialist for motion sensors and integrated drive technology. Due to continuous growth, the management decided to build a new building. Treston Germany advised the company and equipped the electronics production with work tables and accessories.

Landshut-based company Neolog can look back on its last financial year, which ran from April 2018 to March 2019, with sales growth of 25 percent compared to 2017 and more than 1,000 orders.

Container cycle for drugstore chain
With plastic boxes from the SSI Schäfer container range, the drugstore chain dm has set up a closed reusable cycle. The containers serve as storage, picking and transport boxes.

The Amidori Food Company is a successful start-up in the food industry. The young company produces vegetarian food. Amidori optimized its internal logistics with a rotary stacking container system from Werit.

Franz Binder, manufacturer of connectors, has awarded the contract to design and equip the intralogistics in the new logistics center at the company headquarters to system integrator Aberle as general contractor.

Papeterie Pichon claims to supply 40% of all nursery and elementary school in France. In order to cope more effectively with its highly seasonal business, the company has decided to modernize its site in Veauche, France, together with its long-standing logistics partner Savoye.

Witron can look back on a successful financial year: The company achieved sales growth of six percent, created 400 additional jobs and concluded numerous contracts with existing and new customers.
New fresh food warehouse for ASKO
Three material flows, three outgoing goods, three load carriers and three different customer target groups - ASKO's new fresh food warehouse in Norway was not so much a quantitative challenge for Witron's systems, but rather the logic and dynamics in the processes, the integration of the technology and the planning were decisive.

In order to improve the availability of goods and create more space for a wider range of products, the timber wholesaler Karl Pichler has modernized its warehouse with a traversing system from OHRA.

According to the company, the fully automatic X7 packaging line from Packsize produces up to 1,200 ready-to-ship parcels in an hour for product consignments of different sizes.

Expansion for camping wholesalers
The caravan specialist Frankana is once again expanding its logistics center and is relying on Klinkhammer. Due to increased demand, an additional hall is being added to the facility at the Gollhofen site.

The Dangerous Goods & Hazardous Substances trade fair is welcoming exhibitors and trade visitors from Germany and abroad for the second time. The exhibitor area is 30 percent larger than last year.

Often postponed, now finally communicated: At the Hannover Messe, Deutsche Messe AG also announced how it envisions the future of the CeMAT sub-brand: integrated.