Daifuku unveils its Sorting Transfer Robot S for UK and European markets
Designed, manufactured and tested in Japan, the new Sorting Transfer Robot S (SOTR-S) from Daifuku is now being introduced across the UK and Europe.
Designed, manufactured and tested in Japan, the new Sorting Transfer Robot S (SOTR-S) from Daifuku is now being introduced across the UK and Europe.
Warehouse automation is attracting serious investment. With labour shortages, rising fulfilment volumes, and increased customer expectations, many operations are reviewing how digital tools could streamline their activities. In 2023, 45% of UK fulfilment centres had already adopted AI-based automation. Projections suggest over 50% by 2025, climbing to more than 85% by 2030. The options, from autonomous mobile robots to automated storage systems, continue to grow.
TGW Logistics is constructing a high-performance fulfilment centre in Gothenburg for the Swedish healthcare specialist OneMed.
BT-Systems will deliver a fully automated high-bay warehouse as the core element of Sofidel’s $200 million expansion project in Duluth, USA.
Eram Group’s fashion division has selected Dematic to automate the company’s new distribution centre in France.
Picnic has opened a highly automated fulfillment centre, driven by robotics, that allows it to supply a growing number of households.
The French technology company has announced the opening of demo centres in Atlanta (USA) and Korea.
THG Brands at THG chief operating officer Tom Killeen will present at Tomorrow’s Warehouse Manchester, showing how revamping warehouse operations can allow companies to build business success.
Both supply chain shocks and chronic labour shortages are challenges to business resilience, says Mats Hovland Vikse, and automating the warehouse can help.
Quick and efficient emptying of buffers with the Qimarox PR15.
Modular automation is transforming warehouse and manufacturing operations as businesses face increasing market volatility, labour shortages and growing demand for efficiency.
The Florida-based automated equipment supplier points to the advanced facility as a way for European logistics operators to bring the firm’s next-generation shuttle systems to life.
The integrator has won the order to design, implement, and service a highly automated logistics centre for dry goods.
Fulfilment and courier management firm THG Fulfil has launched an AutoStore installation at its Omega warehouse in Warrington.
AT IMHX, TGW Logistics will demonstrate how its cutting-edge technologies are shaping the future of intralogistics.
DHL is to deploy 1,000+ additional robots across its UK Operations to support business growth in eCommerce and life sciences healthcare.
The warehouse robotics company has listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange (HKEX).
Tesco has announced a major investment in a new state-of-the-art distribution centre at DP World London Gateway, which it expects to open in 2029.
FEDEX HAS introduced an AI-powered sorting robot at its air network location in Cologne.
THE INTRALOGISTICS specialist has updated its industrial truck portfolio.