Whether it's a shipping tube or winding core, retail packaging for food or even a firework rocket: at a manufacturer of paper tubes and winding cores, production organization was hampered by limited storage space and increasing lack of room. Bito stepped in with LEO flow.

 With the groundbreaking ceremony for a European battery logistics center in the Netherlands, the DHL site in Holtum is set to support electromobility and energy storage systems across Europe from 2027. Through DHL's supply chain business unit, which specializes in contract logistics, the company is further expanding its battery and energy storage logistics capacities in Europe.

Incredibly, the Formula 1 circus, usually synonymous with speed on the asphalt, is turning to rail. DHL recently transported 50 containers of racing equipment over 2,000 km from Florida to Montreal (Canada) by rail – including 46 forty-foot and four twenty-foot containers. However, this isn't quite as new as the pilot project is portraying it.

Potatoes, pastries, dairy products, irregularly shaped items: Anyone who automates in the food, agriculture, and packaging industries knows the problem. Vacuum specialist Schmalz nevertheless achieves a precise grip with the "mGrip Basic" and a new SRCU control module. 

Swiss air traffic control had tactically astutely announced staff reductions at the top level. Now, they've announced plans to lay off approximately 220 employees in Dübendorf and Geneva to make the company "financially and organizationally stable"Unflattering memories are resurfacing.

This year's general assembly of the Swiss Association for Temperature-Controlled Logistics (SVTL), held at Lenzburg Castle in early May, covered a wide range of topics, from the "homegrown" shortage of skilled workers in some places to modern employee recruitment through social media and humanoid robotics.

1.3 million flights, including 83,519 military flights, are controlled annually in Swiss airspace, making it one of the most heavily used airspaces in Europe due to its intermediary function. Skyguide is now being restructured. The first measure: the management board will be reduced from nine to five members. 

Not a moon program, but a strategic investment: Interroll is acquiring the Royal Apollo Group, a Dutch provider of vertical material handling solutions, including spiral conveyor systems. The group has three production sites and a global service network. 

Even though machines are becoming increasingly important in current production systems, says Alice Kirchheim, head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML), humans remain a crucial factor. This is precisely where a new flagship project called "Emotion" in, which is now set to be launched. 

Exactly 15 years after the commissioning of its first logistics center, Galliker is expanding its capacities in southern Switzerland by around 13,279 m² at its Ticino location in S. Antonino and is responding to the increasing demand for specialized logistics space along the north-south axis with the official opening on Wednesday. 

The Sociéténationale des chemins de fer belges (SNCB) is in the process of establishing a central hub in Mechelen for components and spare parts for the maintenance, repair, and modernization of its rail fleet. Dematic is contributing a high-bay warehouse with 48,000 pallet spaces and an AutoStore system. 

While many suppliers only offer their components in fixed packaging units, Automation24 also delivers evenaSSI storage lifts, put-to-light and WAMAS integration – and without requiring any additional storage space.