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.
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.
Specialised in cold and frozen storage, Corfrisa has been providing food storage and preservation services for 70 years. Since its inception, it has opted for cutting-edge technology, progressively modernising its installations.
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.
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.
After supplying the Sosnowiec and Plewiska warehouses, Mecalux will equip the third Eurocash Group warehouse –located in Płońsk– with pallet racking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mecalux will install the semi-automatic Pallet Shuttle system in a new frozen storage installation for Ultracongelados of Cortes. With this solution, the company will expand its storage capacity by about 16,000 pallets of 1,000 x 1,200 mm.
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.
The Mecalux showroom, an integral part of the company's new technology centre in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona), has ended 2016 off with a higher number of visitors: more than 800 people have come to see the latest innovations in automated storage solutions.
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.
Esnelat (part of the Iparlat group) is a dairy company that was founded in 1953 from a cattle farmer co-op originating from the Basque and Navarro regions.
Following the success of the initiative and the approval in December 2016 of the UPC Chair and Business Classrooms (Aulas de Empresa), a new collaborative agreement for the creation of the Mecalux-UPC Logistics Automation and Innovation Chair was recently signed, which expands and consolidates the relationship between the company and the university.
Mecalux will equip the warehouse of the sporting goods distributor Sportissimo in the Czech Republic with pallet racking and a three-level mezzanine. The principal operation of the warehouse will be preparing online sales orders.
The combination of both systems provides a storage capacity of 19,755 pallets and ensures proper organisation of the goods based on their size and turnover.
In the past two years, about twenty universities have conducted practicums at Mecalux, where the R&D team has tutored final degree and master's projects (mainly the Masters in 'Computer Engineering' and 'Automation Engineering in Industrial Computing' of the EPI and 'Web Engineering' at the School of Oviedo). Most of these students have joined the company's workforce once they have completed the internship.
