Browsing: Automation

Lexon UK, the pharmaceutical wholesaler, has chosen SSI Schaefer to supply an automated picking system for its distribution centre at Redditch, Worcestershire.

The graphs are all starting to turn up but is it tempting fate to take that automation project off the back-burner? With big announcements from Tesco and Procter & Gamble, there seems to be renewed enthusiasm. Malory Davies reports.

Polish health & beauty chain Rossmann has picked Vanderlande Industries to modernise its Lodz-based hub, with the installation of a six-aisle miniload automated storage and retrieval system, in a deal worth seven million euros (£6m).

SDI Group UK has completed a storage project for book wholesaler Bertrams at the company’s Norwich –based distribution centre, increasing capacity by 40 per cent.