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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.
New sales manager at Clark
New sales manager at Clark
H. Schmitz
Holger Schmitz has been with Clark since 2023 and previously held the position of Business Development Manager. Clark Europe has now appointed him as the successor to Stefan Budweit as Director of Sales & Marketing, who has been promoted to CEO.
Schmitz and Clark share a long history, as his career path first led him to the material handling equipment manufacturer, then based in Mülheim, in 2000. Following an internship, he was hired permanently in internal sales. In 2003, he moved to Pramac Lifter, where he worked as a dealer manager. From 2007 until his return to Clark Europe, Holger Schmitz served as Country Manager at Doosan Industrial Vehicle Europe, overseeing the German branches and sales activities in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and Eastern Europe.
Photos: Clark/S.Barde
Clark Europe recently concluded a successful year with celebrations marking its 20th anniversary at the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, once the world's largest coal mine. In 2024, the company celebrated twenty years since its initial headquarters in Mülheim an der Ruhr and its tenth year at the Niederrhein Business Park in Duisburg. In mid-September, sales partners from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, along with employees, gathered for a large-scale anniversary celebration in the unique setting of the former coal mine in Essen, now an architectural and industrial monument and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.
Zollverein Coal Mine.
Rolf Eiten, President and CEO of Clark Europe until the handover to Stefan Budweit in January 2025, also looked back on the legacy of the American Eugene Bradley Clark, who in 1917 developed the first internal combustion engine industrial forklift and thus laid the foundation for the company's more than 100-year-long worldwide success with over 1.4 million forklifts sold worldwide.
It was partly thanks to this expertise that in 2004 a small team in a tiny office, a stone's throw from the company's current location, was able to breathe new life into Clark Europe's business. "Thanks to their entrepreneurial courage and commitment, we were able to grow again, build a comprehensive dealer network in the EMEA region, and successfully reposition the brand in the market.".
S. Budweit, R. Eiten
Visitors were given a first look at upcoming product highlights, such as the new 48-volt three- and four-wheel forklifts of the STE/SE series with lithium-ion technology, which, like their 80-volt counterparts, belong to the S-Series Electric; the new S25-35XE and L25-35XE electric forklift series, which are intended to replace internal combustion engine counterbalance forklifts in the future; and the brand-new CLARK S160D – an internal combustion engine forklift with a lifting capacity of 16 tons, with which CLARK is venturing into the heavy-duty forklift segment for the first time and aims to tap into new industries and customers.
