The food retailer Axfood and Witron have built an omnichannel distribution center in Bålsta, Sweden , from which more than 1500 branches, thousands of end customers via Click + Collect and home delivery are served with over 22,000 dry, fresh and frozen items.

The Supervisory Board of the Kion Group (Linde MH, Still, Baoli, etc.) has extended the term of office of Chief Financial Officer Christian Harm until 2029. "Since 2023, he has driven forward key projects," said Supervisory Board Chairman Mohsen Sohi, "and made a significant contribution to the company's resilient development."

The 90th anniversary of material flow solutions specialist Beumer and the 20th anniversary of its presence in China not only coincide. At the end of 2025, a new, state-of-the-art production facility also went into operation in Taicang, China, which is intended to expand Beumer's global production capacities.

SSI Schäfer is realizing a highly dynamic warehouse for the French pharmaceutical distributor CERP as a greenfield project with a high degree of automation, featuring a shuttle system and over 90,000 storage locations at its core, two piece picking robots, three pick stations and over 2900 product channels.

Everyone's talking about IT and digitalization. But the functionality of "OT" (Operational Technology), which directly controls important systems, machines, and equipment in their physical environment – ​​including intralogistics – also plays a crucial role. This includes crane and lifting technology.

Intralogistics providers are already beginning preparations for LogiMAT (March 24-26) in Stuttgart as the new year begins. Leading the way is Kasto, a specialist in sawing, storage, and automation technology for metal long goods and sheet metal, with its app-based management of heavy materials in the warehouse .

installed a new AS/RS system with 22,400 pallet spaces and a multishuttle-based sequencer at the Spanish clothing manufacturer Velilla existing miniload and multishuttle systems, the facility can now store approximately 600,000 cartons.

Automotive and aerospace supplier CGR is currently constructing a new logistics hall covering 620 square meters, for which the groundbreaking ceremony took place in June 2025. The centerpiece will be an intralogistics solution from SSI Schäfer: a pallet racking system with 750 storage locations and a heavy-duty mobile racking system with an additional 360 storage locations.

SSI Schäfer's Flexi Shuttle System was specifically designed for highly dynamic small parts warehouses. At the Finnish ready-meal manufacturer Kokkikartano, the modular system combines shuttles, lifts, and racking systems for 40,000 container storage locations, resulting in an increase in storage capacity of over 50%.

The US cooperative Associated Wholesale Grocers keeps 54,600 dry goods, fresh produce, and frozen food items in stock for its 1,100 members using a highly automated, full-range logistics center . The facility is designed for a daily picking capacity of more than 460,000 retail units.

Frei Fördertechnik announces its future collaboration with the Danish robotics specialist Capra. "This expands our portfolio to include mobile robot platforms that bring even greater flexibility and efficiency to production and logistics," says Michael Schüpbach, Head of Automation & Robotics. The AMRs are versatile and can be used in a wide range of applications.

TGW Logistics is currently investing €100 million in expanding its production capacity at its headquarters in Austria. Now, with an expansion of the existing office building at the site, a five-story office building with 14,000 m² of usable space is being constructed for around €50 million, with completion expected by the second half of 2028.

AutoStore system for Maria Middelares, a non-profit medical organization in Belgium, and Aalter in East Flanders, about 60 km west of Brussels.

Equipped with double-deep load handling devices, six SSI Exyz storage and retrieval machines achieve up to 28 double cycles per hour in a six-aisle, 42-meter-high high-bay warehouse implemented at the Danish non-food retailer Schou . At peak times, up to 2,520 transport units per day can be processed.

There you have it – in the most modern salad factory in the northern hemisphere. Everything is perfectly organized in the highly automated storage solution that SSI Schäfer implemented for "Fresh Servant," the market leader in ready-to-eat vegetable mixes, in Edsevö, Finland. Even more than that.