Mecalux Insights

Mecalux will automate the Schaeffler Iberia warehouse with an automated warehouse for boxes

Spain

Schaeffler Iberia, an automotive and industrial sector supplier and a subsidiary of the Schaeffler Group on the Iberian Peninsula, will gear up for business with an automated miniload warehouse that has a capacity of more than 5,100 boxes in its Guipuzcoa centre (Basque Country, Spain).

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.

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.

Cloud computing: a supply chain ally

Cloud technology is a huge help for companies to strategically manage their logistics supply chain and integrate all processes carried out to maximise earnings.

While it is true that most of these services are still hosted in traditional data centres, more and more companies rely on cloud technology to manage many of their core services.

Vins i Licors Grau and Mecalux enjoy a vintage partnership

Mecalux will once again collaborate with Vins i Licors Grau, a company with extensive experience in the distribution of wines and spirits, with the installation of an automated miniload warehouse in its Palafrugell (Girona) centre. This solution will allow the company to store more than 900 boxes and speed up the preparation of online orders.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DECASA: High throughput picking and storage

Mexico

Multiple storage solutions streamline the distribution of consumer products at this mexican company.

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.

Ultracongelados de Cortes incorporates a semi-automatic Pallet Shuttle system

Spain 2017

With this solution, the company will expand its storage capacity by about 16,000 pallets.

High performance and capacity are ‘in the bag’ at Finieco

Mecalux will fit out the Finieco warehouse, a Portuguese paper bag manufacturer, with two blocks of racks served by a light-duty stacker crane and an automatic Pallet Shuttle.