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Zetes Invests in Danish Robotics Firm

Posted on by David Priestman

Zetes, a leading specialist in supply chain execution solutions has invested in Robotize, a Danish robotics company known for its cutting-edge Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) to reach a stake of 50%, alongside its founding shareholders. This strategic move allows Zetes to conceive and develop comprehensive solutions to address the need for more efficiency in the logistics industry, facing major challenges such as labour shortage.

A shared vision: empowering the human workforce

Founded in 2016 in Lyngby, Denmark, Robotize has rapidly grown to become a trusted partner across industries, including food and beverages, heavy machinery, and cleaning equipment. Robotize specializes in developing AMRs designed for safe, secure, and automated material transport in manufacturing and logistics environments. Their solutions are renowned for being scalable, reliable, and user-friendly, making them a perfect complement to Zetes’ Collaborative Supply Chain Suite.

Zetes and Robotize, with its team of experts in mechanics, electronics, and above all, software, will create innovative solutions that combine advanced mobility, safety, and supply chain execution applications. This will drive greater efficiency and productivity in logistics operations while enhancing the overall human workforce and overcoming growing challenges such as labour shortages.

Zetes Invests in Danish Robotics Firm

Aligned values and ambition

Zetes’ investment in Robotize was a natural progression, as both companies share a common mission: to deliver value-added solutions that enhance, rather than replace, human capabilities.

Pierre Lambert, CEO of Zetes, commented: “We are excited about our new investment in Robotize. Both of our companies are driven by the same values—delivering top-tier solutions that empower our customers and elevate service quality. This perfectly aligns as well with our mother company, Panasonic. Together, we will develop comprehensive solutions that will enhance internal logistics operations and support our customers’ evolving needs.”

Anders Pjetursson, CEO of Robotize, echoed this enthusiasm: “Joining forces with Zetes opens up new possibilities for us, as our first successful collaborations have already demonstrated. Zetes’ impressive portfolio of customers provides the perfect foundation to expand our capabilities as our specialized AMRs are a perfect fit with Zetes high-quality business applications.”

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New Material Handling Range in Denmark

Posted on by Keith McKinley

Rødding-based Stenderup A/S, the Authorised Bobcat dealer for Denmark, has announced that the company will be offering the new Bobcat range of material handling equipment for Danish customers from 1st April 2024.

Troels Stausholm Jensen, Managing Director of Stenderup, said: “Since we were appointed as the Authorised Dealer for Bobcat in Denmark in 2022, we have been successful in increasing Bobcat’s market share in the country. We are very excited by the opportunities offered by the new material handling range from Bobcat not only for our existing customers, but for a whole new audience in manufacturing, warehousing and general industry across Denmark.”

John Coudyzer, District Manager for Bobcat Material Handling for Benelux and the Nordics, said: “Stenderup has a long and successful history dating back to 1936, supplying quality machinery and other products throughout Denmark. The material handling range represents the latest expansion in the Bobcat portfolio that already includes loaders, mini-excavators, telehandlers, light compaction and attachments, allowing Stenderup to offer new solutions for customers in an increasing number of industries across Denmark.”

Product Portfolio

The Bobcat range for logistics and material handling consists of various product lines: a series of diesel forklift trucks with lifting capacities from 2 to 16 ton; a series of LPG forklift trucks with lifting capacities from 2 to 7 ton and a series of electric forklift trucks with lifting capacities from 1.2 to 10 ton. The latter segment also includes a line of electric forklifts with three wheels for light work from 1.2 to 2 ton.

Troels Stausholm Jensen added: “The new Material Handling portfolio provides an additional springboard for Stenderup and Bobcat to increase our presence in the industrial and warehousing market in Denmark. It is a perfect complement to the Bobcat loaders and telehandlers we supply equipped with attachments such as buckets, grabs, bale clamps, dump hoppers and pallet forks, for use in material handling applications in many industries.”

Today, Stenderup is led by the third and fourth generations of the Jensen family. The company has over 40 employees divided into sales, service and administration, covering the whole of Denmark. This is backed up by the strong focus at Stenderup on service/aftermarket support for customers right across the country.

Fashion group DK Company gets new racking

Posted on by Keith McKinley

NC Nielsen, AR Racking’s Danish strategic distributor, carried out the design and installation of the new warehouse of the multi-brand fashion group DK Company in Ikast (Denmark) in an extraordinary time of just nine weeks leading the comprehensive management of the project.

DK Company has become one of the main European suppliers of fashion brands for men and women. With a presence in 35 different markets, the Danish company has a new 11,000 sq m operations centre to meet the growth experienced in recent years. Specifically, in 2021 it increased its revenue by 20% compared to the previous year and the forecasts for 2022 are along the same lines.

The storage area, which covers a total surface area of 3,000 sq m, stands out for its versatility and rapid location of the goods. NC Nielsen, considered the high number of references and diversity of the volume of the products to configure a solution with adjustable pallet racking that integrates levels for manual picking operations. In total, 4,000 pallet positions, of which 60% will be for picking.

Top quality racking for DK Company

DK Company communicated to NC Nielsen the urgency to have an agile, easy to configure, secure and adaptable warehouse. “It was a very quick and continuous process: from the first meeting to the first layout, the order and completing the installation in a total of nine weeks,” said Niels Henrik Hagelskjær, DK Company Warehouse Manager.

With more than five decades of experience, NC Nielsen stands out for its reliability, specialised service and high quality standards. “DK Company needed a fast project turnaround time, so having a top quality racking manufacturer and supplier such as AR Racking allowed us to fully focus on the study, design, advisory and planning aspect of the project to offer the customer the best storage solution in the most competitive timeframe possible,” explained Lars Kjærgaard Stenberg, NC Nielsen Project Manager.

Solid and strategic partnership

AR Racking’s commercial presence in more than 60 countries is mainly coordinated and consolidated through its distribution network. In Northern Europe and Scandinavian countries, AR Racking has been competing for years with total reliability and efficiency thanks to strategic partners such as NC Nielsen.

María Cossio, AR Racking Area Manager, explained it as follows: “We offer close support to the distributor, providing them with our specialisation as a manufacturer to effectively fulfil the needs of local companies in storage matters; however, none of this would be possible without having trusted partners such as NC Nielsen.”

 

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