The international e-tailer vidaXL, which carries an extensive range of house and garden, DIY, personal care and toy items, etc., will consolidate its logistics operations with a huge 100,000 m² distribution centre able to store 135,000 pallets.
Five blocks of high-density racks will be installed, attended by four Pallet Shuttles. The four level, 12 m high racks can store 3,450 pallets of 800 x 1,200 mm.
Alainé will fit out its new logistics centre in Macon (France) with the semi-automatic Pallet Shuttle system from Mecalux. With this solution, the company will get a storage capacity of 20,397 pallets weighing a maximum 950 kg each.
Pellenc, a French farm equipment manufacturer, will equip its distribution centre in Pertuis (France) with an automated warehouse for boxes by Mecalux that will supply its production lines. In doing so, the business will be able to store 3,500 pallets and 2,312 boxes with a 50 kg maximum unit weight.
Mecalux has installed pallet racks in the warehouse of a transportation firm in Germany, where it houses a diverse variety of pallets filled with many different SKUs. Overall, the capacity comprises 6,700 pallets and containers of distinct sizes and turnovers.
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).
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.
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.
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.
