
"Entrepreneur Of The Year 2018"
Marco Gebhardt wins business award
This year's prestigious "Entrepreneur Of The Year" award in the "Digital Transformation" category goes to Marco Gebhardt from the Gebhardt Intralogistics Group.

"Entrepreneur Of The Year 2018"
This year's prestigious "Entrepreneur Of The Year" award in the "Digital Transformation" category goes to Marco Gebhardt from the Gebhardt Intralogistics Group.
WERIT Kunststoffwerke will be presenting industrial packaging at BrauBeviale (Nuremberg, November 13-15). One highlight is the newly developed Intermediate Bulk Container COMPACTline - the first 300 l IBC on the market - and the GS1-certified EURO H1 hygiene pallet.

At SPS IPC Drives, steute's Extreme division will be presenting the new ZS 92 SR belt-alignment switch, which is based on the new ZS 92 S emergency pull-wire switch series.

Under tropical conditions or in deep-freeze warehouses - with a throughput of up to 30 double cycles per hour, high availability of the storage and retrieval machines is essential. For many years, intralogistics provider SSI Schäfer has relied on pre-assembled energy chain systems from igus for the vertical movements of its storage and retrieval machines.

The precast concrete parts produced by the Egyptian company ECPC Company weigh up to 140 tons and are up to 40 meters long - real heavyweights. Gantry cranes from Stahl CraneSystems are used here in the heat and dust.

According to the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, musculoskeletal disorders are the most common reason for incapacity to work in Germany. In practice, this affects employees in car workshops and car dealerships, among others, for whom fetra fechtel now offers a solution.

Konecranes supplies crane systems for the world's largest X-ray laser, the European XFEL in Hamburg, which generates extremely powerful X-ray laser beams up to 38 meters underground. This requires highly sensitive components - and precise cranes to bring them safely into position.

What do you do when your own sorting system is getting on in years, important components are no longer available on the market or are only available as custom-made products, or the requirements for the system have changed?

Digitalization is on everyone's lips and yet many companies are struggling to implement it consistently. An industry expert explains how things can be done differently. Three questions for Walter Dunkmann, Head of Vacuum Automation at J. Schmalz.

MiniTec continues to grow and expand and has completed the integration of two Berlin subsidiaries. W&P GEAT GmbH and W&P Wolf & Partner GmbH are now trading as MiniTec Berlin GmbH. With the full integration into the group of companies, further investments are also being made.

In the search for a solution that combines efficiency with optimum quality, Parfum Christian Dior opted for an automation solution from Knapp.

VanRiet Material Handling Systems has gained a new customer with the Norwegian postal service Posten Norge AS. The system integrator is now equipping the parcel center with a sorting and conveying solution.

With the new Grey Edition, Fetra presents a new range of transport equipment. The range includes a variety of transport equipment in anthracite gray, in addition to the classic blue version.

Migros Aare, the largest of the ten Migros cooperatives, is expanding its logistics platform. Intralogistics specialist Gilgen Logistics was awarded the major contract for this.

The new generation of the Stow Atlas 3.0 pallet shuttle system has its own power supply and a battery management system (BMS) that monitors the charging and discharging cycles.

At FachPack, Ferag AG will be presenting Skyfall bag sorters with specially developed automatic loading and unloading stations. Both innovations contribute to the further automation of order fulfillment processes.

Within automated intralogistics systems, for example in shipping areas of distribution centers, the transport of cartons, containers or load carriers such as trays or pallets plays an extremely important role.
At FachPack in Nuremberg, AMI Förder- und Lagertechnik will be presenting a comprehensive range of conveyor modules and subsystems that can be configured to create an efficient and economical system.

Dr. Markus Ehrmann has been Branch Manager of Vanderlande in Mönchengladbach since the first of September. He succeeds Matthias Kramm, who took a one-year sabbatical in the summer.

The Swiss company Ferag AG is completing the pocket sorter from the Skyfall family, which was introduced three years ago, with self-developed stations for fully automatic loading and unloading. Both expansions increase the efficiency of the pocket...