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Platinum medal for Linde MH
“We not only received Platinum status, but were also able to significantly improve our overall score”said Ulrike Just, Head of Sales at Linde Material Handling in Germany, at the announcement of the EcoVadis results.
IT transports as a driver
“Despite blocked sea lanes and closed airspace, we are keeping supply chains running,” says DHL CEO Tobias Meyer. The company reported two percent volume growth in the first quarter of 2026, with revenue of €20.4 billion slightly below the previous year's level, solely due to currency effects. One of the drivers of this growth is specialized IT transport.
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 .
Noise forecasts for night logistics
Noise forecasts for night logistics
Last autumn, a user day hosted by Fraunhofer IML focused on "low-noise logistics." Now, a think tank for mobility, transport & logistics, an innovation circle of the Logistics Initiative Bavaria, has taken a closer look at "low-noise night logistics."
Measure noise levels
team leader for "Urban Logistics and Electromobility" at Fraunhofer IML, had Daniela Kirsch, recap the current state of research. While streets and loading zones are overloaded during the day, quiet night and off-peak logistics can deliver goods efficiently and in a way that is compatible with urban environments. Electric trucks and low-noise loading and unloading equipment can thus make a significant contribution to emission-free, livable urban logistics. The basic idea is to use quieter commercial vehicles with alternative drive technologies for deliveries after 10 p.m. and before 6 a.m.
Low-noise alternatives
In October, participants at the user day in Dortmund were able to see for themselves the effectiveness of special quiet-running rollers for roll containers and a low-noise floor for using an acoustic The differences in noise levels were visualized
Researchers at the rolling cart
Fraunhofer IML also presented a state-funded project there, "SNAP – Silent Night Analysis and Planning," which is intended to support companies and municipalities in assessing the potential for extending operating hours and the impact on their tours.
Study recapitulated
were once again discussed in an online conference with several dozen participants from logistics providers, the Munich Mobility Department, consulting firms and the and Commerce, with IML team leader Daniela Kirsch and accompanied by CNA manager Johannes Kraus , the opportunities of such low-noise logistics
Image: Fraunhofer IML
The study, called GeNaLog, isn't exactly brand new. In urban areas, delivery traffic often operates within very narrow time windows, limiting deliveries to markets, retailers, and restaurants . The main sources of noise are usually the opening and closing of the driver's door, the radio, driving over the loading platform with loading equipment, and the opening and closing of the loading platform itself. Often, the only solution is to minimize these noise sources as much as possible through driver training combined with work instructions .
Consider limit values
The impact of the liftgate on the ground can be dampened, if necessary, by using rubber mats. The liftgate itself, as well as the box body, can be technically adapted for quiet deliveries by applying a noise-reducing coating. Roll containers and insulated roll containers can be retrofitted with low-noise rollers, and the pallets can be transported to the branches using low-noise electric pallet trucks.
Photo: IML
Logistics companies will find it interesting that, for example, by taking noise limits into account, where the respective sound impacts on adjacent residential areas are visualized on a map, delivery times can be increased from two to three by adding nighttime delivery windows, and thus the total number of vehicles required can possibly be reduced.
«Isophone» investigates
As part of the GeNaLog study, researchers used microphones and cameras to create "isophone"maps of passing trucks ranging from 7 to 40 tons. The first part of the results was presented in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2020. A second part is expected to follow next summer.
Despite the thoroughness in determining noise limits and immission protection values, a participant's inquiry revealed that the establishment of "urban hubs" distributed throughout the city, neighborhood-based transshipment points using smaller trucks, or other fundamental structural changes in urban traffic were only touched upon very briefly in the study.
On the drawing board...Fig.: IML
The topic is highly complex, especially since in Germany, with its federal structures, operators and applicants in cities and municipalities repeatedly encounter different building regulations that must be taken into account when setting up delivery zones.
"Last chance" for "default payers"
Quieter working methods also include waste disposal logistics, one participant remarked at the very end. Bizarre, but realistic: in some places, the problem has arisen "that some people only put their bins out when they hear the garbage truck in the distance." This "last chance" for "delinquent" waste collectors would naturally disappear if the collection vehicle consistently remained below a certain noise level and was therefore only noticed when it was almost gone.
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