The international e-tailer vidaXL, which carries an extensive range of house and garden, DIY, personal care and toy items, etc., will consolidate its logistics operations with a huge 24.7 acre distribution center able to store 135,000 pallets.
Zambú Higiene, a company who manufactures, distributes and sells more than four thousand industrial hygiene and cleaning products, has hired Mecalux to supply and install the high-density Pallet Shuttle system. Its new warehouse in Murcia (Spain) will house close to 10,200 pallets.
Alainé will fit out its new logistics center in Macon (France) with the semi-automatic Pallet Shuttle system from Mecalux. With this solution, the company will get a storage capacity of 20,397 pallets.
Pellenc, a French farm equipment manufacturer, will equip its distribution center in Pertuis (France) with an automated warehouse for boxes by Mecalux that will supply its production lines. In doing so, the business will be able to store 3,500 pallets and 2,312 boxes with a 110 lb maximum unit weight.
Specialized in cold and frozen storage, Corfrisa has been providing food storage and preservation services for 70 years. Since its inception, it has opted for cutting-edge technology, progressively modernizing its installations.
Schaeffler Iberia, an automotive and industrial sector supplier and a subsidiary of the Schaeffler Group on the Iberian Peninsula, will gear up for business with a miniload system that has a capacity of more than 5,100 boxes in its Guipuzcoa center (Basque Country, Spain).
Mecalux will once again collaborate with Vins i Licors Grau, a company with extensive experience in the distribution of wines and spirits, with the installation of an Automated Storage & Retrieval System (AS/RS) for boxes in its Palafrugell (Girona) center. This solution will allow the company to store more than 900 boxes and speed up the preparation of online orders.
Mecalux will install an AS/RS with a capacity for 7,300 pallets for the French company Papeterie de Mandeure, which belongs to the Clairefontaine Group and focuses on the production and distribution of paper products. Three AGVs and the Mecalux Easy warehouse management system will also be included in the supply.
The installation will be composed of 26 aisles of single-deep racks, each 38' high and 102’ long, divided into three blocks. The total storage capacity will amount to over 8,000 pallets with a maximum 1,764 lb each.
The Lala milk company asks Mecalux to supply four more stacker cranes for its logistics center located in Aguascalientes (Mexico). Installation throughput will double because of the higher number of cycles and movements provided by this additional equipment..
The Dutch fishing company Mooijer-Volendam B.V. has built a new 131’ long, 103’ wide and 36’ high frozen storage installation.
After supplying the Sosnowiec and Plewiska warehouses, Mecalux will equip the third Eurocash Group warehouse –located in Płońsk– with pallet racking.
LDC, a French agri-foods company specializing in poultry products, will reorganize the distribution of its logistics center to speed up order prep as much as possible.
Mecalux has developed new light-duty stacker cranes, of up to 29' in height, specifically to operate with the Pallet Shuttle system. The automatic Pallet Shuttle solution served by stacker cranes is utilized in warehouses that have few SKUs and many pallets per SKU.
Mecalux will install the semi-automatic Pallet Shuttle system in a new frozen storage installation for Ultracongelados of Cortes. With this solution, the company will expand its storage capacity by about 16,000 pallets of 39” x 47”.
Paolo Astori, an Italian manufacturer of aerospace fasteners, will install an automated miniload warehouse by Mecalux with a storage capacity for 5,472 boxes weighing a maximum of 88 lbs each.
The Mecalux showroom, an integral part of the company's new technology centre in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona), has ended 2016 off with a higher number of visitors: more than 800 people have come to see the latest innovations in automated storage solutions.
The upcoming logistics center of SAM Outillage, a French professional tools manufacturer, will comprise selective pallet racking and an AS/RS for boxes. The combination of the two storage systems will allow the classification of the merchandise according to its turnover, as well as the organization of operations, to achieve greater efficiency in picking tasks.
Esnelat (part of the Iparlat group) is a dairy company that was founded in 1953 from a cattle farmer co-op originating from the Basque and Navarro regions.
Following the success of the initiative and the approval in December 2016 of the UPC Chair and Business Classrooms (Aulas de Empresa), a new collaborative agreement for the creation of the Mecalux-UPC Logistics Automation and Innovation Chair was recently signed, which expands and consolidates the relationship between the company and the university.
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