Mecalux Insights

Mecalux will handle the automation of Papeterie de Mandeure's warehouse

Mecalux will install an automated warehouse with a capacity for 7,300 pallets in 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.

Dajar equips its warehouse with Mecalux pallet racking

Poland | 2017

The installation will be composed of 26 aisles of single-deep racks, each 11.5 m high and 31 m long, divided into three blocks. The total storage capacity will amount to over 8,000 pallets with a maximum weight of 800 kg each.

Increased productivity in the Lala logistics centre in Mexico

The Lala milk company asks Mecalux to supply four more stacker cranes for its logistics centre located in Aguascalientes (Mexico). Installation throughput will double because of the higher number of cycles and movements provided by this additional equipment.

Chile: a seismic laboratory for testing rack behaviour

Chile is one of the most earthquake prone countries in the world due to its geographical location in the Circum-Pacific belt (also known as the Ring of Fire), the scene of intense seismic activity. It also presents unique characteristics, making it ideal for scientific research related to this natural phenomenon. Accordingly, Mecalux has spent years analysing and improving the structural behavior of racking.

Movirack mobile racking, the highlight of the frozen storage at Mooijer-Volendam B.V.

The Dutch fishing company Mooijer-Volendam B.V. has built a new 40 m long, 31.5 m wide and 11 m high frozen storage installation.

Picking is a pivotal business practice at BMZ Poland

Mecalux will equip the BMZ Poland warehouse in Gliwice (Poland) with a mezzanine and conveyor circuit that will move boxes of goods coming from the production plant.

Grupo Familia, technology and trust

The Grupo Familia warehouse has a capacity to accommodate 19,000 pallets. This project developed in Colombia has been the result of years of collaboration and the trust that Grupo Familia has placed in Mecalux.

Mecalux consolidates its collaboration with the Eurocash Group in Poland

After supplying the Sosnowiec and Plewiska warehouses, Mecalux will equip the third Eurocash Group warehouse –located in Płońsk– with pallet racking.

The efficient picking system in the LDC logistics centre

France

LDC, a French agri-foods company specialising in poultry products, will reorganise the distribution of its logistics centre to speed up order prep as much as possible.

Automatic Pallet Shuttle with transfer car: large storage capacity and a very high number of cycles

Portugal

The Portuguese company Cistér will fit out its warehouse in Portugal with the automatic Pallet Shuttle system with transfer car by Mecalux. Through this solution, the company will attain a storage capacity for 12,672 pallets, while achieving a very high inflow and outflow of goods. All operations and processes will be controlled by the Mecalux Easy WMS warehouse management software.

Fritel streamlines its warehouse with the Pallet Shuttle system by Mecalux

The Belgian company Fritel, specialising in the development and production of fryers, waffle irons, grills and other 'fun cooking' devices, plus the distribution of small appliances, has chosen the Pallet Shuttle system by Mecalux to boost the available space and achieve greater storage capacity.

Maximum throughput: an efficient order prep system in action

Italy | 2017

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 40 kg each.

New range of 9 m high light-duty stacker cranes for Pallet Shuttles

Mecalux has developed new light-duty stacker cranes, of up to 9 m in height, specifically to operate with the Pallet Shuttle system. The automatic Pallet Shuttle solution served by stacker cranes is utilised in warehouses that have few SKUs and many pallets per SKU.

Simplicity and productivity in Trumpler's automated warehouse

This facility, located in Barcelona, has a 2,512 pallet capacity with the entire operation supervised by the warehouse management software, the Mecalux Easy WMS.

A full-fledged logistics centre for SAM Outillage with an automated warehouse for boxes by Mecalux

France 2017

The future logistics centre of SAM Outillage, a French professional tools manufacturer, will comprise pallet racking and an automated miniload warehouse. The combination of the two storage systems will allow the classification of the merchandise according to its turnover, as well as the organisation of operations, to achieve greater efficiency in picking tasks.