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Garbe develops logistics property in Bitterfeld-Wolfen

Posted on by David Priestman

Garbe Industrial Real Estate GmbH has started construction of an 82,000 sq m logistics centre in Bitterfeld-Wolfen (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany), 30km north of Leipzig. The property is being built by a joint venture comprising Garbe Industrial Real Estate, BREMER Projektentwicklung GmbH and the Quakernack Group. The building is scheduled to be completed next year. The investment volume amounts to around €72m.

The new building is being constructed on a 222,000 sq m site in the Central Germany Technology Park. The joint venture acquired the site, which is ready for development, from the city of Bitterfeld last year. The property will consist of two units. The larger one is already leased to a medium-sized German e-commerce company. The online retailer will use around 48,000 sq m for storing, picking and shipping its items. This part of the building is scheduled for completion in February 2023. As required, it can be expanded by 40,000 sq ft. A corresponding expansion option has been agreed.

Construction of the smaller unit is taking place without any fixed rental commitments. It is designed as a multi-user property, will have a total area of 34,000 sq m and is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of next year. The smaller unit will be equipped with 32 dock levellers and three ground-level gates. A total of 485 car and 49 truck parking spaces will be created on the outdoor area. Of these, 140 car and 23 truck parking spaces will be allocated to the smaller part of the building.

“The entire property will meet the highest energy requirements,” emphasises Jan Dietrich Hempel, Managing Director of Garbe Industrial Real Estate. The building will be constructed in accordance with the KfW’s (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau/Credit Institute for Reconstruction) Efficiency House 40 standard. The property will therefore consume 60% less energy than that stipulated by the Building Energy Act. A photovoltaic system will be installed on the roof surface to generate renewable energy. The joint venture has commissioned BREMER Leipzig GmbH as general contractor to build the property.

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Hempel expects the building section, which is being constructed on a speculative basis, to be fully leased during the construction phase: “Bitterfeld-Wolfen is an up-and-coming location in the Leipzig-Halle logistics region that offers excellent growth prospects. The excellent cooperation with the city administration undoubtedly also contributes to this.”

In addition, the Garbe managing director underlines the transport connections. The technology park is located only a few hundred metres from the junction to the A9 motorway. It is one of the most important north-south axes connecting Bitterfeld-Wolfen with Leipzig, Nuremberg and Munich to the south and the greater Berlin area to the north. Leipzig-Halle Airport is about 30km away. So far, the technology park has mainly been home to companies from the materials development, automotive and solar cell industries.

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Clark expands sales network in southern Germany

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With Habeko GmbH & Co. KG, forklift manufacturer Clark Europe has brought a new sales partner on board for Baden-Württemberg. The experienced materials handling vehicles specialist, based in Weissach im Tal in the Rems-Murr district, is taking over the sales and service of Clark materials handling vehicles in the greater Stuttgart area.

“We are delighted to have found in Habeko a partner with sound know-how in the materials handling vehicles business who will provide competent and comprehensive support to our customers in the Stuttgart region,” says Rolf Eiten, President & CEO, Clark Europe. “With this strategic partnership, we have expanded our sales network in the south of Germany even further.”

Habeko can look back on almost 40 years of company history. In 1983, Peter Hail and his wife Marlies founded Etex GmbH. The company’s core business was the trade in automotive and commercial vehicle spare parts and their export to the Near and Middle East. Due to increasingly difficult political and economic conditions in these regions, the two company founders sought new business fields in Germany. This entrepreneurial reorganisation resulted in Habeko GmbH in 1987.

Initially, the focus of the new company was on the trade in wheels and castors for industrial trucks as well as for vehicles used for internal transport. In the course of time, the areas of storage and operating equipment, transport equipment, pulling aids, mini-lifts and materials handling vehicles were added as new business areas. In 2008, Dipl. Ing. (FH) Dirk Hail, son of the company founders, took over the management of the 100% owner-managed family business as managing partner. Today, Habeko employs a total of 10 people in administration, sales, service and spare parts.

“We are also looking forward to working with Clark, a manufacturer whose name stands for robustness and solid technology in the materials handling vehicles sector,” says Dipl. Ing. (FH) Dirk Hail about the partnership with Clark Europe. “Clark products are an ideal fit for Habeko and our customer base. We see ourselves excellently positioned for the future, so we are approaching the new task and challenge with great enthusiasm.”

Ferag provides intralogistics solution to fashion group

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Fashion group s.Oliver is taking another major step in its growth strategy by opening a logistics centre in Dettelbach in 2024 with a hub function for the whole of Europe. As general contractor, Ferag AG is responsible for the overall coordination of intralogistics and the automated handling of the ordering and returns processes.

A European hub for around 60 million goods per year in online retail is being built in Dettelbach in Lower Franconia, Bavaria. The German fashion company s.Oliver plans to locate the entire logistics processing of its B2C business at this site. The reorder process and the supply of self-managed areas for the B2B sector are also to be integrated, according to a group release. The new logistics centre is a consistent next step in s.Oliver’s growth strategy and a reaction to the significantly increased demands on automated processes in e-commerce retailing.

Maximum process reliability

A key project with significant dimensions has begun for Ferag AG with the start at the beginning of January 2022. Several teams will work exclusively on this project for almost two years. More than 16km of conveyor systems will be supplied. They will run on three levels, connect several halls and ensure seamless process handling.

Ferag’s proven pouch sorter system Skyfall is loaded with 125,000 pouches and ensures all steps in the ordering and returns processes: receiving goods from the hanging garment warehouse; fully automated pouch loading with prepared returns; dynamic buffering for efficient material flow and on-time availability of goods; automatic pouch emptying and distribution of picked and sorted goods to packing stations; delivery of goods for shipping.

In addition to the impressive technological solution, Ferag also convinced those responsible at s.Oliver with its proactive input of its own flexible approaches and their feasible implementation in the existing concept.

“In addition, Ferag recognised and understood the importance and scope of the project for our company,” stated Dennis Prandl, Director Global Logistics Service Centre at s.Oliver, explaining why Ferag was awarded the contract. Ensuring a high degree of automation is a key requirement. Another is unrestricted flexibility. The concept must be able to react quickly to the demands of the market. Finally, s.Oliver wants to guarantee its customers maximum delivery capability and raise its service level so that goods ordered by 3 p.m. are shipped the same day.

Perfect coordination

To ensure a successful project, the coordination of all parties involved becomes a key task. Ferag assumes responsibility as integrator and organises cooperation with supplier companies, including major ones such as Heber Fördertechnik GmbH & Co. KG (container conveyor technology, outgoing goods sortation), MHart Srl (overhead conveyor technology) and Westernacher Business Management Consulting GmbH (SAP system).

Asked about the major challenges, Ferag project manager Fabian Schulz names the exact assembly planning and the on-time provision of all components. The final phase of the project then involves integrating all the mechanical and digital components, including some new developments, into a functioning overall system.

Ferag has started the project in Dettelbach with enthusiasm and a huge quantity of expertise. The fashion group’s logistics centre is scheduled to open in February 2024.

 

TSC Printronix appoints DACH sales manager

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Highly experienced sales expert Julia Moore joined TSC Printronix Auto ID as Sales Manager on 1st March 2022. Her role is twofold, to both support existing partners, distributors and resellers, and to expand the partner network throughout the DACH North region.

Victoria Grobushkina, Sales Director for TSC Printronix Auto ID Europe and Africa, to whom Julia will report, sees her as a real asset. “We are pleased to welcome Julia to our sales team. Being customer-oriented, results-driven and a great team player, she will support our continuous regional growth and help to establish long-standing business relations with our channel partners and provide the first class level of services for which TSC Printronix Auto ID is renowned,” says Victoria.

Moore has a very ‘hands-on‘ approach that focuses on customer needs. “I put customer requirements front and central to my work and am determined to demonstrate to them how both the TSC and Printronix Auto ID brands can meet their needs. I am convinced that through excellent cooperation with our partners, and by actively supporting a wide range of projects, we can increase our market share and inspire more end customers to use our high-performance products,” says Moore.

Post-graduation from the University of Sunderland, Moore acquired her initial sales skills at Medion AG and Aer Rianta Retail in Dublin. In 2012, she switched to the Auto ID industry with a Customer Account position in Dublin for Datalogic followed by a sales role at AISCI Ident GmbH. Since 2017, Moore has been responsible, as Area Sales Manager, for developing and expanding the reseller and partner network at Promethean, one of the world’s leading suppliers of interactive displays and screens for imaging equipment.

Moore will be based in Essen, Germany, and will complement the DACH team, covering the northern part of the region. She will be focused on managing day-to-day relationships with existing resellers and distribution partners for both TSC and Printronix Auto ID brands. Additionally, she’ll be targeting Auto ID resellers to gain a foothold into new customers to increase regional presence and brand awareness.

Multi-client shuttle system put into operation at Harsewinkel

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Arvato Supply Chain Solutions is expanding Harsewinkel, Germany into its leading healthcare location in Europe. To this end, a new multi-client-capable shuttle warehouse with picking system has now been put into operation at the North Rhine-Westphalia site, which in the future will enable the products of a total of 25 customers from the pharmaceutical and medical technology industry to be shipped even more efficiently and quickly to hospitals, pharmacies, doctors, laboratories, patients and wholesalers. At the same time, Arvato is using the new shuttle solution to drive forward the automation strategy for its global sites.

“The healthcare market is currently being shaped by the trend toward more and more direct deliveries from pharmaceutical and medical technology manufacturers to their customers. This makes automation useful in healthcare logistics as well,” says Dr. Thorsten Winkelmann, Managing Director Healthcare at Arvato Supply Chain Solutions.

“It allows us to respond more flexibly and efficiently to changing market needs, ensure optimal patient care and grow together with our customers.”

The appropriate automation solution was determined after a detailed analysis of inventory and delivery volumes and the structure of the products. For this purpose, Arvato has its own Logistics Engineering department, whose experts have clustered different automation technologies independently of manufacturers according to application standards as in a modular system. From this, the modules for each project are then put together individually on the basis of the respective requirements.

“In addition, since the space conditions in Harsewinkel were predefined and could not be expanded at will, we opted for a state-of-the-art shuttle system with stacked bins from our service provider KNAPP,” explains Fabian Generotzky, Vice President Operations Healthcare at Arvato in Harsewinkel.

With the increased storage density in the shuttle in this way, around 4,300 sq m of additional storage space have been gained, which is now available for growth with existing and new customers.

For the implementation, the Healthcare division was able to draw on the experience and expertise of other successful automations by Arvato Supply Chain Solutions. Generotzky adds: “The implementation in an existing facility during ongoing operations was nevertheless one of the most complex projects in the history of Arvato Healthcare.”

A challenge that was mastered with great commitment from everyone involved. The shuttle warehouse, which extends over three floors in Harsewinkel, has a total capacity of 55,000 storage locations for 44,000 totes and 11,000 shipping cartons. 84 shuttles move in the system in five aisles and can switch between the individual levels via six elevators.

For efficient order processing, pharmaceutical and medical products are conveyed directly to six picking stations using the goods-to-person principle. Additional work areas for order picking and goods issue are connected to the system via high-performance conveyor and sorter technology. During packing, semi- and fully-automatic carton erecting machines support the dispatch processes.

“The output per aisle is 400 to 650 movements per hour,” says Generotzky. “With each movement, the robotic vehicle both stores and retrieves goods – so there are no empty runs. This improves throughput by up to 10%, so it’s ideal for processing high volumes and boosts efficiency throughout the value-added process of warehouse logistics.”

The customer structure at the site also spoke in favour of using a shuttle. “In Harsewinkel in particular, we look after very different clients, so it is not possible to foresee a pronounced ABC distribution of products,” adds Generotzky. “With the shuttle, you quickly have direct access to the products and, compared to other automation solutions, you don’t need any lead time to get the items out of the system.”

With the new shuttle system in Harsewinkel, Arvato Supply Chain Solutions is well equipped for further growth. Generotzky concludes: “We have built generously and planned for capacity expansions in order to be able to react quickly to the increasing demand on the market, but also from existing customers.”

 

Garbe hands over Lower Saxony logistics centre

Posted on by Keith McKinley

One year after the start of construction, Garbe Industrial Real Estate GmbH has completed a new central warehouse for the hagebau Group in Walsrode, Lower Saxony (Germany).

The property, with a total area of around 43,000 sq m, has now been officially handed over to the logistics subsidiary of the building materials and DIY store cooperation. Its omnichannel and logistics activities are to be bundled in Walsrode in the future. Garbe Industrial Real Estate invested around €34m in the new building.

The logistics centre was built on a 100,000 square metre site in the “A27park” industrial and commercial area. It is located directly on the A 27 motorway. The Walsroder Triangle is located in the immediate vicinity. There is a connection to the A7 motorway, one of the most important north-south connections in Germany.

“The central location in the Hamburg-Hanover-Bremen city triangle speaks for itself,” emphasises Jan Dietrich Hempel, Managing Director of Garbe Industrial Real Estate. “In the current difficult times, which in the construction sector are characterised by irregularities in the supply chains and shortages of materials, our thanks go to all those involved in the project for their solution-oriented and constructive cooperation.”

The city of Walsrode also contributed to the quick success of the project by cooperatively facilitating the examination and approval by the building authority within a very short period of time. The project had previously been initiated by the Deltaland mbH business development agency, which, as the city’s service provider, had put the project participants in touch with the location.

Garbe Industrial Real Estate had prevailed as preferred partner for the project development in a multi-stage bidding process conducted by Logivest as the logistics real estate consultant and project manager commissioned by hagebau, and acquired the site ready for construction in November 2020.

A building was erected on top of it, which is divided into four hall sections, each measuring 10,500 sq m. In addition, there are around 1,300 sq m for offices and social rooms. The property is equipped with 40 dock levellers and three ground-level gates. In addition, the object has a gate for side unloading.

The tenant of the new building is hagebau Logistik GmbH & Co KG. It handles the warehousing, order picking and distribution of the product range, which comprises around 10,000 different articles, for the around 360 member companies of the building materials trading and DIY store cooperation.

“The Walsrode site will set standards and play a decisive role in our logistics strategy,” explains Gerritt Höppner-Tietz, Managing Director of hagebau Logistik. The property in the “A27park” will serve as a central warehouse in the future. From there, both the five regional warehouses and the construction and building materials markets are to be supplied. In addition, online orders are to be shipped from Walsrode.

“Numerous jobs will be created in Walsrode for this purpose. A total of up to 150 people will be employed at the site,” adds Höppner-Tietz.

Parking spaces for 122 cars, 20 trucks and 20 bicycles are available in the outdoor area. A photovoltaic system is installed on the roof of the logistics centre to generate renewable energy. Garbe Industrial Real Estate is striving for certification according to the Gold Standard of the German Sustainable Building Council for the entire property.

“We will transfer the logistics centre to our own real estate management and remain a reliable contact for our tenant even after completion,” concludes Hempel, referring to the corporate strategy of Garbe Industrial Real Estate. The property still has potential for expansion. If required, a fifth hall section with an additional 10,000 sq m of space can be built.

 

GEODIS to open Dresden logistics centre

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GEODIS plans to open a new multi-user logistics facility in Coswig. The new facility meets the latest environmental and safety standards and is scheduled to be ready for occupancy in October of this year. The new logistics centre in the Dresden area is an example of the global transport and logistics service provider’s continued expansion in Germany.

The new logistics centre offers customers a wide range of services. These include inbound and outbound logistics, value-added services, after-sales, and return logistics, as well as high-tech services, for example, the repair and refurbishment of information technology products, as well as the assembly and software configuration of devices, right through to installation at the customer’s site. Value-added services, such as flow and transport management via the Control Tower and e-logistics and e-fulfilment services, complete the range of services at the new Coswig site.

In terms of traffic, the new logistics centre is directly connected to the A4 – Bad Hersfeld – Görlitz highway via the S84 and B6. The new building, developed by Garbe Industrial Real Estate, a specialist in logistics and corporate real estate will meet safety and environmental standards. For example, it is planned to line the floors of the two large halls with WGK (water hazard class) foil. With a photovoltaic system on the roof, GEODIS will be able to cover a large part of its electricity requirements.

Further sustainable measures such as greening the façade and planting 110 trees and 547 shrubs in the outdoor space will be an additional contribution to improving the carbon footprint, as are e-charging stations for cars and bicycles. Certification to the gold standard of the German Sustainable Building Association (Deutschen Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen, DGNB) is planned for the entire property.

“The new multi-user facility in Coswig is another step in our growth strategy. As a central multimodal transport hub, the Dresden metropolitan area has ideal conditions for fast and environmentally friendly transport routes within Germany, as well as to Poland and the Czech Republic,” stresses Thomas Kraus, GEODIS President & CEO North, East and Central Europe, underlining the location’s advantages.

“The establishment of innovative companies from the high-tech, greentech, and robotics sectors in this region also offers interesting market potential to expand our customer portfolio in those growth sectors that are important to us,” says Antje Lochmann, Managing Director of GEODIS’ Contract Logistics activity in Germany.

“As mayor of Coswig, I can say, on behalf of the city council that I’m pleased our efforts in recent years to develop commercial areas have been successful. This large and modern logistics facility is a new location in Coswig that not only meets today’s customer requirements but also sets standards in environmental protection with a comprehensive PV system and green façades,” says Thomas Schubert, Mayor of Coswig.

 

Garbe secures plot near Bad Hersfeld

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Garbe Industrial Real Estate GmbH is continuing its expansion course. In the municipality of Ludwigsau near Bad Hersfeld (Hesse, Germany), the Hamburg-based project developer has acquired a 192,000 sq m plot of land. A logistics centre with a total area of up to 97,000 sq m is to be built on it. Garbe Industrial Real Estate is investing around €85m in the project.

The site, which is ready for construction, is located in the Bad Hersfeld-Ludwigsau Enterprise Park, a roughly 840,000 sq m industrial estate in the North Hessian city-triad of Bad Hersfeld, Bebra and Rotenburg an der Fulda.

“With this purchase we have secured one of the last available, ready-to-build prime sites in this size range,” emphasises Jan Dietrich Hempel, Managing Director of Garbe Industrial Real Estate. “It is located in an economically strong area that is now one of the most important logistics regions in Germany.”

It occupies a central, convenient location; via the B27 Göttingen–Fulda, the site is connected to the A4 motorway, which links Kirchheim with Dresden. The Bad Hersfeld junction is 10km away.

The Hamburg-based project developer is planning a logistics centre in Ludwigsau with a total hall area of up to 97,000 sq m. They will be distributed over two buildings, which will be parallel to each other.

Included are offices, social rooms and mezzanine areas. A photovoltaic system will be installed on the roofs to generate renewable energy. Electric charging points for cars and bicycles are planned for the outdoor area. Garbe Industrial Real Estate is aiming for the property to be certified according to the Gold Standard of the German Sustainable Building Council.

“Our project developments are always based on internationally recognised ESG criteria,” says Hempel.

Construction of the logistics centre is scheduled to begin in the second half of the year. Completion is planned for the end of 2023. In addition to discussions with a tenant for the entire site, talks with other potential tenants are now underway. The mayor of the municipality, Wilfried Hagemann, welcomes the success of the settlement: “We are pleased that we have been able to win the pan-European company Garbe Industrial Real Estate for our site as a project developer.”

The purchase of the property was brokered by the real estate consultancy Logivest from Munich, which is also entrusted with the exclusive letting mandate.

REMIRA and ROQQIO merge to form software heavyweight

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REMIRA, a supply chain specialist, and ROQQIO, an expert for omnichannel commerce software solutions, are merging under the enhanced REMIRA brand. With around 500 employees and a cumulative annual turnover of €50m, one of the largest software companies headquartered in Germany is created.

By merging the Supply Chain Solutions and Omnichannel Commerce product worlds, REMIRA is creating with Unified Commerce an end-to-end solution that is completely focused on the behaviour of the end customer and the market.

“With this merger, we are taking the next consequential step in our corporate strategy,” explains Stephan Unser, CEO of REMIRA. “In total, we support around 8,000 customers. And as of before, we do this 80 % from Germany. This makes us one of Germany’s most important software companies.”

Today, REMIRA is already one of the leading providers of supply chain solutions for retail, logistics, and industrial companies in all sectors. The internationally active Dortmund-based company promotes technological progress in the supply chain with AI-supported cloud solutions. Among the users of REMIRA products are REWE Systems, Gedore, Fressnapf, and Olymp.

The specialist for supply chain management accompanies its customers through the entire supply chain with its five connected business units Planning, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Transportation, and Warehousing. ROQQIO is one of the leading software companies for omnichannel solutions in stationary and online retail. The company’s solutions are used by well-known brands in the fashion, sports, and retail sectors. The reference list includes Bogner, Rose Bikes, Intersport, and Expert.

Unified Commerce

With the merger of the two companies, REMIRA’s product range will be expanded to include a sixth area – Commerce. This includes software and hardware solutions for the point of sale and the Commerce Cloud, a central software-as-a-service platform. This enables all processes and touchpoints with customers to be captured, controlled, and monitored, thus making a significant contribution to linking stationary retail with online retail.

REMIRA breaks down data silos by seamlessly integrating the online and offline worlds. Retailers get a 360° view of their customers and their shopping behaviour. This enables them to ensure merchandise availability for each sales channel while optimising overall inventory levels. This increases customer satisfaction and, at the same time, improves the company’s earnings situation. The combination of these established commerce processes with the comprehensive services from the area of supply chain management will significantly shape the commerce of the future as unified commerce.

Focus on customer success

REMIRA‘s future supply chain and unified commerce offering will help users to optimise their supply chain and thus generate decisive advantages over the competitors. To create the transparency required for this, all products and services will communicate in a networked way in the future.

“We want the greatest possible success for our customers. To achieve this, we must put their end customers at the centre of our efforts,” explains Unser. “This is exactly where we are starting with the merger. From optimised sales planning to purchasing and resilient forecasting to customer centricity across all sales channels, we are creating complete connectivity.

“The resulting data and transparency will help our users to ensure maximum availability while maintaining optimised inventory levels – regardless of the sales channel. This will be crucial for the long-term success of our customers in a continuously changing market environment.”

bekuplast expands manufacturing capability

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Returnable plastic transport packaging maker bekuplast has received at its manufacturing facility a new injection moulding machine with a clamping force of 1,100 tonnes. The new piece of equipment was delivered to bekuplast’s Ringe (D) headquarters in December 2021.

In order to expand the production of folding boxes, an investment was made in an injection moulding machine with an extended clamping unit for stack moulds and automation. The new machine is currently being assembled and is expected to go into operation at the beginning of February 2022.

In the plant at the headquarters in Ringe, bekuplast currently manufactures using 38 injection moulding machines with a clamping force of 150 to 1,500 tonnes, as well as two large machines with a clamping force of up to 3,000 tonnes.

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