
Double lifting gear, more handling
Demag has installed a fully automated paper roll storage system with two process cranes for the Austrian company Laakirchen Papier.

Demag has installed a fully automated paper roll storage system with two process cranes for the Austrian company Laakirchen Papier.

Idlers, conveyor rollers and motorized rollers for the food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries have to be specially manufactured. The manufacturer Rollex presents these conveyor technology elements.

The kitchen equipment supplier Marcos Larrañaga y CIA has put a new warehouse into operation in the Basque province of Álava. The core technology in the 3,560 square meter facility is a semi-automatic pallet shuttle system from AR Racking.

As part of the annual press event, the intralogistics specialist viastore Group also announced a personnel change: Detlef Ganz, COO viastore Systems, will be leaving the company at the end of the year.

The material handling specialist Daifuku has acquired the Indian manufacturer Vega Conveyors & Automation Private Limited. Vega is a manufacturer of industrial automation solutions.

Vehicles can be unloaded in various ways. Two variants that are independent of the vehicle and for which the user does not require a special driver's license are the loading bridge and the loading lift table. Which is more practical? A comparison.

Precisely synchronized movements and linear positioning play an important role in conveyor technology. Timing belts from Habasit ensure precise transportation.
Cover story materialfluss 11-12/2019
Metabo undertook a comprehensive retrofit of the production warehouse. Thanks to a detailed system analysis and a binding roadmap from viastore, the three-week modernization phase was completed without any delivery bottlenecks.

Online retailers are once again expecting record sales on Black Friday and Cyber Monday on November 29 and December 2 respectively. With its automation systems, Dematic wants to optimally prepare retailers for such peaks.

Together with Witron, Germany's largest food retailer EDEKA is already implementing the fifth logistics center in which Witron OPM technology is used.

Ex-Vanderlande boss active again
Intralogistics provider Europa Systems is expanding its activities and has expanded its management team. As materialfluss reported in issue 10/19, former Vanderlande boss Matthias Kramm joined the company on September 15.

With the Mustang E+, TGW presents a new development stage in the miniload sector. The further development of the Mustang E is intended to combine high driving and lifting performance with outstanding approach dimensions and intelligence in control and design.

Space for around 16 million items
Zalando has commissioned Knapp with the automation of a new logistics center in Bleiswijk, near Rotterdam. A combination of shuttle system and bag sorter technology is to ensure efficiency and flexibility in the new 140,000 square meter online shipping warehouse.

In September, Frédéric Zielinski was appointed General Manager Europe at Savoye.

Habasit will be presenting its HabaSYNC timing belts, which cover a wide range of requirements in industry and trade, at the FMB in Hall 20, Stand E6.

Paul Vahle is one step ahead of his time, and has been since 1912. Read the historical article to find out how the company of the same name has shaped the history of intralogistics and how it has become a pioneer in the industry.

The 20th anniversary of the Gütegemeinschaft Kranservice e.V. was celebrated on the occasion of the conference of crane experts/service managers of the Gütegemeinschaft Kranservice e.V. in Haiger at the beginning of October.
200 years of Dematic and 60 years of partnership with Toyo Kanetsu - both companies have reason to celebrate. The success story of the Dematic Multishuttle in Japan began with a business trip.

Some of the test benches manufactured by CFM Schiller consist of up to 250 tons of metal and complicated electronics once they have been assembled on site. In the new welding and cutting center, the company from the Eifel region relies on material flow solutions from ABUS Kransysteme to move steel components.

Environmentally friendly roll container...
Environmentally friendly packaging - that was one of the main topics at this year's FachPack. Walther Faltsysteme presented its first roll container for store and warehouse logistics at the trade fair.