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A new rack system, more space and new industrial trucks were on the wish list. This resulted in a complete system change to digital warehouse management using Linde Warehouse Navigator – including practically error-free order picking, reduced supply times and increased satisfaction. A visit to the fire protection specialist FLN Neuruppin.

150,000 different items, and up to 60,000 storage and retrieval tasks every day: At its site in Hamm in Germany, Arvato Supply Chain Solutions is set to soon achieve this mammoth feat of logistics at peak times, on behalf of a major beauty sector customer. The backbone of the high-performance distribution center is cutting-edge very narrow aisle technology from Linde Material Handling.

More than 200,000 books leave Hachette UK's distribution center near Oxford every day. For picking at up to 17.7 meters a very special truck is used: a combination of a Linde K truck and a Linde V modular.

A heavy truck with an electric drive—will that work? This was the question asked by Asset VRS, a leading provider and manufacturer of vehicle restraint systems in the UK. But it didn’t take long for the Linde E160, with its Li-ION battery, to demonstrate its considerable advantages.

What are the three most important properties of a counterbalanced forklift truck? For the logistics experts at Eibach Oberflächentechnik GmbH (EOT) in Lüdenscheid, Germany, there is only one answer: performance, performance, performance. In a recent field test, the new Linde X35 gave a convincing demonstration of just how well an electric forklift can perform in the tough loading business.

DB Schenker has full control of its forklift truck fleet thanks to Linde’s innovative fleet management system Linde connect.

We all know transparency trumps all in contract logistics. Even better if this can be generated as efficiently as possible: Transport and logistics service provider Gebrüder Schröder GmbH & Co. KG relies on the Linde Warehouse Navigator, which not only speeds up and simplifies processes on site, but also visualizes stock levels in real time for customers too.

The e-commerce professionals at Wagner eCommerce Group are now using Linde K trucks in their new narrow aisle warehouse—equipped with Active Stability Control—which saves them from having to lay expensive special flooring.

Day in, day out, huge quantities of material are transported at Westfälische Drahtindustrie (WDI) in Hamm, Germany. With the E30 test truck from Linde, the company now has its very first electric forklift truck in operation to be equipped with a revolutionary steering system – and it is thoroughly impressed.

When it comes to potential risks in intralogistic processes, an external perspective can be worth its weight in gold, and this proved to be the case at CTL Celltechnik Lodenau in the German region of Saxony. With the help of the Linde Safety Scan, CTL was able to significantly reduce the risk of accidents in its internal goods handling.

More flexible, cost-effective, and robust: In the highly frequented general cargo warehouse in Heilbronn, the Fritz Group has switched its industrial trucks from lead-acid battery operation to modern Linde lithium-ion technology.

There’s tough, then there’s the paper industry: At the paper producer Smurfit Kappa Wrexen Paper & Board, the counterbalanced trucks run with a full load almost non-stop—day and night, whether in oppressive heat or biting cold. An extreme deployment scenario, where the new Linde H50 diesel powerhouse was able to show what it can do even before its market launch.

Safety is of the utmost importance for Smurfit Kappa LithoPac, who are based in Nybro. The high level of safety that the company has achieved from day one is guaranteed by the Linde Safety Guard assistance system.

If demand, and therefore the production volume, increases, this is actually a cause for celebration. But how can you manage the increased flow of goods without burdening employees with more and more repetitive transport assignments? At the plastics processor Poloplast, the answer is automation, made by Linde.

The LINHARDT Group is a leading specialist in packaging, and at its headquarters in the German town of Viechtach, it’s all action in the high rack warehouse. Thanks to Linde technology, efficiency and ergonomics are on the up now too.

How do you make your intralogistics more economical, cleaner, and more sustainable? For Emons Spedition GmbH Germany, the answer was crystal clear – by switching from LPG forklifts to lithium-ion units in the general cargo warehouse in Großbeeren.

Together with Dutch Linde network partner Motrac, large fishery company Parlevliet & Van der Plas has brought its intralogistics right up to date at several sites. The high quality of Linde’s trucks, as well as solutions to ensure comprehensive safety and comfort, were a key factor in the decision to work together.

The best of both worlds – for the best that nature has to offer. That’s the best way to describe the pilot run of the new Linde X35 at German soft drinks manufacturer, Ensinger Mineral-Heilquellen. The new electric forklift truck performance class impressed the managers of the long-established mineral water brand, not only in terms of sustainability, but also with its outstanding performance.

Two Linde L-MATIC pallet stackers make their rounds between the warehouse and dispatch at Austrian sanitary equipment specialist HOLTER. Meanwhile, the human colleagues get to focus entirely on their actual work: value-adding order picking.

At its French plant in Les Pennes-Mirabeau, Coca-Cola European Partners France has raised its existing safety standards to a whole new level with the Linde Safety Guard assistance system by Linde Material Handling.

Our dispatch logistics are good, but how can we make them even better? This was the challenge facing ebm-papst, a leading producer of fan and motor products, at its site in Mulfingen, Germany. The answer: Fully automate one of its material flow processes using trusted expertise from Linde. The project has proven a huge success, so much so that transport volumes have exceeded expectations and further automation projects are being planned for the future.

With the introduction of two automated L-MATIC AC pallet stackers from Linde Material Handling, Schneider Electric, a leading company for digital energy and automation solutions, improved the overall efficiency of their logistics center in Sant Boi de Llobregat in Spain.

The task: To transform a former production hall into a high-performance logistics center within just a few months. The solution: A comprehensive approach, close collaboration—and the right project partner. Model: The new spare parts logistics solution from construction machinery specialists Yanmar Compact Equipment Europe at the plant in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria.

For years, the hinge specialists at Reinheim-based Grass GmbH have been carrying out their warehouse and production logistics tasks using a forklift truck fleet that has grown gradually over time. Using a fleet optimization analysis, experts from Linde Material Handling identified an incredible amount of potential within this established structure. They standardized and reduced the fleet and, in the process, made it much more powerful, cost-efficient, and energy-saving.

Anyone brewing and bottling millions of hectoliters of Pilsener beer, shandy, malt beer, apple beer and other mixed beer beverages needs powerful intralogistics systems to get the drinks onto the street. C. & A. Veltins, a brewery with a rich tradition, has put its faith in forklifts from Linde Material Handling for this demanding role.

For the past five years, a Linde H120 D has been hard at work at Norrlands trä in Älandsbro, about 400 kilometers north of Stockholm. The fleet has recently been expanded by the addition of another similar workhorse, which despite its size and weight, performs at a high level of precision.

Cölner Hofbräu P. Josef Früh KG in Cologne-Feldkassel brews and loads thousands of litres of Kölsch every day. Real hard work for Linde's lithium-ion forklifts, which passed their trial run at the company with flying colors.

To produce perfect rings for wind turbines, heat and pressure are required robust and Linde forklift trucks are perfectly designed to work in these precise environments.

Heavy loads, demanding shift work, extensive terrain – and that with electric forklifts? What may sound quite unusual for some logistics specialists at first glance is everyday life at Mineralquellen Wüllner in Bielefeld.

The forklift trucks used at Carolus Trees have to be tough – and most importantly, they can’t be afraid to get cold and dirty. Linde forklifts take this all in their stride.

Those responsible for pallet handling at Mondi are relying on combination narrow aisle trucks from Linde and have been testing the latest generation of the Linde K model series since spring 2017.

A Linde tugger train ensures the material supply for production. It stops for the loading and / or unloading of the various aircraft parts, from the small screw to the larger metal parts, at 30 fixed stations.

When the grape harvest starts, the French company SICSOE needs more vehicles than usual. Only in this way can it guarantee a smooth and fast logistics process in the high harvest season. The Fenwick-Linde Short Termal service helps.

How smaller logistics fleets can also benefit from digital solutions is shown by the example of the Reitz Group. The manufacturer of industrial fans has recently started using the new Linde Truck Call App.

Every four years the biggest Public Viewing Germany takes place on the Fan Mile in Berlin. This event would not be possible without the use of Linde forklifts.

Every year at Agua Mineral San Benedetto in Valencia, 600,000 pallets are loaded onto trucks using Linde forklifts and delivered to customers. The beverage business is booming in summer. Agua Mineral then uses the flexible and reliable Linde rental service.

The Linde connect fleet management system makes a decisive contribution to order and safety in the warehouse. Linde Material Handling has equipped the entire SMP fleet with this intelligent solution.

The Opel plant in Aspern, Austria, is the first Opel location to commission fully automatic vehicles for longer distances. In doing so, the carmaker relies entirely on Linde's expertise. The challenge was to integrate autonomous driving into the existing systems.

For many years now, Novelis employees have been supported by various Linde vehicles - 24/7, 365 days a year, from E20 to HT160Ds.

In the restaurant Giggijoch you can order fresh cakes, yeast dumplings and strawberries at an altitude of 2,283 metres and an outside temperature of minus 12 degrees in the Ötztal Alps. A Linde tugger train supplies the mountain restaurant in Sölden with fresh food every day.

The NORA Centre Wolfsburg has committed itself to the fast delivery of original Volkswagen Group spare parts and other brands. Internal logistics plays an important role in meeting the demanding deadlines for customers. Crucial players are Linde electric forklifts, which prove their worth every day in the race against time - lately also equipped with Linde lithium-ion batteries.

Production runs 24 hours a day. The 130 m long corrugated board machine swallows paper raw material round the clock. Every day, around 900,000 square meters of corrugated board are produced and processed. That's why a completely reliable fleet of forklift trucks is so important. A total of 60 vehicles, mainly electric forklifts, from Linde Material Handling are in use at Werner Kenkel.

The main factory of the French metal packaging manufacturer Massilly in Cluny relies on extensive automation in the production process. Until recently the final process step, transporting the pallets to the warehouse, was conducted manually. This task is now also being performed by automated industrial trucks, with great success. Representatives of the company are now traveling to Cluny to see for themselves the benefits of Linde robotics equipment.

Simple does not always mean trivial: proof of this is the automation project of Linde Material Handling for BASF Italia. In order to optimize efficiency and safety, a flexible, secure and fast-to-implement solution for Logistics 4.0 was integrated on the basis of an automated guided vehicle (AGV).

Paper, cardboard, mattresses, bags, plastics, cans and much more. Once used and thrown away, they all end up in a mountain of rubbish on the premises of a recycling company - a company like Willimantic Waste Paper. Here, loose waste, recyclables and bales are moved around the entire site by forklift trucks.

For four years now, the Renault Sport Formula 1 team has been using Linde forklift trucks to load all of the equipment, and to assist with construction at the racetrack, right across Europe. So far, the partnership with the rental truck team - Short Term Rental - at Linde UK has proved to be both reliable and flexible for Renault.

In times of increasingly individualized customer requirements, intralogistics must also gradually adapt to the changed production conditions. How this can be achieved by a global industrial company is shown by the example of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) in Wiesloch/Walldorf.

The Linde Rental Solutions has been ensuring fast and professional setup and dismantling as well as performing other logistics tasks at the Formula Student Germany for many years. This requires a number of challenges to be overcome.

Every year, the Marketing Department and Management Board of Wolf GmbH, a systems supplier for heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and solar technology based in Mainburg, Lower Bavaria, develop a motto that aims to give employees orientation and motivation. “Courage to embrace change”, the message for 2016, could not be more appropriate with regard to the purchase of the company’s first robot industrial truck.

Many bakeries already offer freshly baked bread rolls at 6 o’clock in the morning. Frequently, ingredients have to be delivered during the night to achieve that. That’s the responsibility of wholesalers like Gusto AG in Hohenpolding near Munich. Recently, Linde order pickers with lithium-ion batteries were deployed at the firm to perform the logistics work involved.

The standard medication boxes available on the market often have quite a story behind them. For example, they may have once been a drinks carton and therefore more or less come straight from your rubbish bin. Transforming them into something valuable and appealing, doesn’t take much at Barcelona Cartonboard: a separating facility, a paper machine – and a dozen high-performance forklift trucks.

The numbers are impressive: Over a surface area of 126 football fields in Wismar, Egger processes in the region of million cubic meters of wood each year for HDF, MDF and OSB boards as well as laminate flooring. Since February, the wood-based materials specialist has relied on forklift trucks with Linde Safety Pilot for its logistics needs.

Exact material flow processes for a highly standardized forklift truck and warehouse truck fleet: Sika Deutschland GmbH achieves this with an overall logistics concept which, despite customer-specific solutions, relies on standardization, focuses on a forklift brand, and leases equipment on the basis of full-service leases.

Quiet as mice, Linde’s automated trucks transport fittings at Fagerhults Belysning. The investment in automated trucks at the well-known company has been a success.

In this Linde interview, Stefan Prokosch talks about the future of electric forklift trucks, hydrogen drive systems, and the huge potential of digitalization.

The C-MATIC and C-MATIC HP autonomous mobile robots are compact, highly efficient building blocks for automated material flow. Philipp Stephan, Product Manager Automation and Intralogistic Solutions, explains their strengths and what they should be used for.

Automation in existing structures? According to Markus Schmermund, Vice President Automation & Intralogistics Solutions at Linde, more and more automated logistic applications are being given the green light. In this interview, Linde expert Markus Schmermund explains the key factors that matter when it comes to automating existing processes - and provides fascinating insights into the current state of the development.

Automation promises greater efficiency in production logistics. However, in some cases a manual or partially autonomous scenario can be more cost-effective than fully autonomous operation. Digitalization expert Frank Heptner explains what makes the difference.

Automation is one of the trending topics in intralogistics. In this interview, Tobias Zierhut, Head of Product Management Warehouse Trucks, explains why data will play a key role in the future of warehouse technology, and why Linde Material Handling sees itself as the market leader in robotics.

Frank Heptner, Senior Director Consultancy and Projects Intralogistics Solutions at Linde Material Handling, talks about digital networking, automation and the future of intralogistics.

The 19th VDI Industrial Trucks Conference took place in Baden-Baden. The focus was on topics such as automation, driver assistance systems, battery technology and occupational safety. Alexander Schmidt, Senior Product Manager for reach trucks and tractors at Linde, also gave a lecture on the Linde assistance system Dynamic Mast Control.

In a presentation at the German Material Flow Congress of the VDI-Wissensforum, experts from Linde and Comnovo explain their networked solution for greater safety in intralogistics. By interlinking with the environment, industrial trucks detect hazards even before they arise.

Driven by the motto “Vision ZERO. Safety in your world,” Linde Material Handling is attending the A+A in Düsseldorf. At the international forum for protective equipment, occupational safety and health at work, Linde will be presenting a range of solutions, including a new assistance system, the Reverse Assist Camera.

Under the motto "Leading logistics - today's innovative solutions for tomorrow's logistics", the Material Handling Symposium took place in Aschaffenburg on September 14, 2017. The focus was on questions concerning the future viability of logistics.

The 13th ForkliftCup took place in Aschaffenburg from 12 to 16 September 2017. For one weekend everything revolved around the topic of driving a forklift truck and the necessary precision and speed.

For decades now, Linde forklift trucks have been distinguished by their design, for which the honor goes to none other than Porsche Engineering. The most recent achievement of this progressive partnership: the new generation of Linde Counterbalanced Forklift Trucks X20 – X35 and H20 – H35.

High handling volumes, short delivery periods, increasing price pressure, seasonal fluctuation and challenging safety regulations mean that there is no margin for error in the beverage industry. Linde provides support with optimized intralogistics solutions.

Linde offers solutions for 3PL service providers: solving staff shortages, increasing the flexibility of vehicle fleets, using big data, maximizing safety, and increasing energy efficiency.

Linde Material Handling celebrates 50 years of electric forklift trucks and shows what the market leader in this segment has to offer for the future.

Specialist journalist and renowned forklift expert Theo Egberts has thoroughly tested the H25 diesel and X25 electric forklift trucks from Linde Material Handling. Result: Both models achieve historic performance records, setting new standards in their payload classes.

Linde Material Handling has been manufacturing counterbalance trucks at its Aschaffenburg, Germany production site since back in 1959. In March, the one-millionth vehicle rolled off the assembly line and has since been ceremoniously handed over to customer company Colorobbia España S.A., one of the largest facilities in the world for the production of frits, pigments and other products for the ceramics and glass industry.

How Linde Material Handling and the KION Group ensure that the catering sector receives fresh produce.

The Virtual Showroom app from Linde Material Handling has been available for iOS and Android systems since last year. The app gives smartphone and tablets users a 360° interactive experience, enabling them to play around with 27 virtual industrial trucks against any background, with options to rotate, shrink, enlarge, and much more.

‘We keep the world moving’ is the official claim of Linde Material Handling’s parent company, the KION Group. However, in the midst of the current pandemic, it is much more than “just” a motto. It is a promise to the customers of Linde and the KION Group, to which both feel more committed than ever.

Electric drives are the future of mobility. This applies not only to cars, but also to forklift trucks. The key to this are new battery concepts, primarily based on lithium-ion technology. What are the advantages and disadvantages of different types of batteries? Where is the lithium-ion battery going? And how can users make the best possible use of them?

With the Robotics4Retail survey, the EHI Retail Institute is investigating how robotics and automation are revolutionizing intralogistics. Who are the drivers of automation and what comprehensive solutions and industrial trucks does Linde offer?

Ground handling is a challenge for airport logistics. The demands on industrial trucks and logistics solutions are correspondingly high. Demand is for robust vehicles that enable fast and safe handling and are increasingly focusing on alternative drive systems.

Because he loves the ergonomic design and the simple controls, Marcell Lange has had his Linde truck tattooed. So he found a way to express his enthusiasm for forklifts.

For users, Linde Material Handling is the most popular material handling equipment manufacturer. This was the result of a survey conducted by the trade journal MM Logistik. Respondents praised the quality, performance and availability of the vehicles. Linde also scores highly in terms of service and training.

The year is 1956. In Aschaffenburg the company Güldner Motorenwerke is adding an administration building to its foundry on Schweinheimer Strasse. The rich industrial history of Linde Material Handling.