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A hair's breadth away from the curve
Hupac aims to shift more freight back to rail by increasing the use of the left bank of the Rhine corridor and digitally transforming the intermodal transport chain. The company has now closed its 2025 financial year with a profit of CHF 3.5 million, and transport volume increased by 4.3 percent.
Top retrofit of the «World Cup camp»
In 2007, the German women's national football team won the World Cup and Apple presented its first iPhone. For KWM Weisshaar, the year was also marked by the construction of a new multi-story production hall equipped with Kasto's Unigrip buffer storage system. A retrofit was now underway, which was implemented smoothly.
New building with a signal effect
Not a "lighthouse" in the true sense, but a construction project that has a signal effect in its dimensions, architectural design as well as its future function, is now being created with the groundbreaking ceremony for the doubling of the office capacity of TGW Logistics for around 50 million euros at the main site in Marchtrenk.
GS1 Excellence Day at StageOne
Prominent speakers from across the world of logistics, business, science, and technology will converge on June 18th at the GS1 Switzerland Excellence Day at StageOne in Zurich-Oerlikon . The focus will be on data-driven intelligence and sustainable supply chains.
Opposite in Duisburg
Directly opposite its European headquarters, Clark is celebrating the expansion of its direct sales operations in Duisburg with the official opening of its premises in the Asterlagen business park. The "Western Branch" is intended to serve as an "exclusive interface" to drive market potential in the region.
A new hunt for record times
The StaplerCup season is starting again at Linde Material Handling in Germany. Experienced forkliftoperators and enthusiastic newcomers can now register to qualify at over 20 venues both in Germany and abroad. The final will be held in Aschaffenburg in October.
Kemaro establishes US subsidiary
“The USA is no longer an experiment; it is our next major revenue driver”says Kemaro, the Eschlikon-based manufacturer of cleaning robots. The company has already sold over 1,500 robots to more than 600 industrial customers worldwide. With $5 million in fresh capital, it now aims to enter the next phase of its expansion.
SVTL meets in a historic setting
The general assembly of the Swiss Association for Temperature-Controlled Logistics will take place on May 8th Castle and Lenzburg , in addition to the usual agenda items, personnel management, modern advertising for skilled workers on social media and the question of whether humanoid robots will one day be helpful .
Logistics expert: "Masters at balancing uncertainties"
The days of unlimited supply chains are over. Global just-in-time supply chains are now on new leadershipThe 20th Logistics Day of the Kühne Logistics University (KLU) in Hamburg focused
New opportunities with «GreyMatter»
"Fifty Shades of Grey" is a moderately boring movie about teen fantasies concerning first sexual experiences with the opposite sex. "Grey Orange" be more exciting for some: a global provider of AI-powered software for warehouse control and inventory management, whose "GreyMatter"software Dematic now wants to profit from.
Flexible Automation in Bern
Flexible Automation in Bern
At Logistics & Automation on January 28th/29th in Bern, Dematic will present its flexible automationportfolio with solutions for new customers and for expanding existing systems, its autonomous mobile robots (AMR), AutoStore systems and pallet shuttles.
Intralogistics specialist Dematic advertises that its flexible automation range offers tailor-made, easily integrated and scalable solutions that can be expanded with increasing demand and remain reliable even in uncertain times.
Showing expansion possibilities
“We want to showcase the diverse entry-level opportunities and expansion paths that Dematic, in conjunction with its Kion Group sister companies Still and Linde Material Handling, can offer,” explains Rolf Huber, Vice President of Kion ITS Switzerland. Trade fair visitors can learn on-site, via digital media and in personal discussions with experts, how versatile technologies can make processes more efficient and future-proof in the long term.
Among the solutions presented at the trade fair are AMRs, which move flexibly and efficiently through point-to-point transport and goods deliveries handling Further solutions include compact pallet storage systems with pallet shuttles from Eurofork or MOVU , as well as AutoStore for extremely dense bin storage. Both technologies can be adapted to existing to meet increasing storage needs or throughput requirements expandedThe result: faster throughput, improved accuracy, and scalable growth – without being bound to rigid system designs.
“Flexible automation can be achieved through a variety of technologies – either as standalone systems or integrated into larger solutions,” says Rolf Huber. “Innovative automation doesn’t have to be complicated. Customers of all sizes and at every stage of development can start with a single module and expand it over time.”
One-stop solutions
“We offer integrated solutions from a single source: Dematic provides the automation and software expertise, while the Kion brands Still and Linde supply high-performance industrial trucks. (…) At the trade fair in Bern, we will demonstrate how an integrated solution works in practice. Together with Still, we will showcase our know-how and concepts on site.”
At Logistics & Automation: Stand E02 / Hall 3.0
Free entry tickets at bit.ly/bern2026
