Material handling and automation solutions - Daifuku

Announcing the Daifuku Group Environmental Vision 2020

Daifuku — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800

Daifuku is pleased to announce that it has prepared the Daifuku Group Environmental Vision 2020, which sets out a future vision for the Group. We formulated this vision to fulfil our environmental responsibility for the next generation as a member of the global society.

Daifuku Group Completes Logan Teleflex Acquisition

Daifuku — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800

The Daifuku Group is pleased to announce that it completed the purchase of all shares of Logan Teleflex (UK) Ltd. (headquartered in the United Kingdom), Logan Teleflex (France) S.A. (headquartered in France) and Logan Teleflex, Inc. (headquartered in the U.S.A.) on April 1, 2011. The three companies ("Logan"), which provide airport baggage handling systems and services, are now wholly owned subsidiaries within the Group.

Statement Regarding the 2011 Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami

Daifuku — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800

On Friday, March 11, 2011 Japan Standard Time, Northeastern Japan suffered a massive earthquake and ensuing ‘tsunami.’ We have been overwhelmed with words of encouragement and offers of help from both the business community and society at large. This information is being provided to inform Daifuku stakeholders, including customers and business partners, of the effects of the disaster as it relates to Daifuku.

DAIFUKU Expands Warehouse Facilities of NETTO A/S

Daifuku — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800

The significant recent expansion of the Netto supermarket chain in Denmark, has resulted in its Køge distribution centre being required to operate close to 100 percent of its capacity. As a result the Danish grocery discounter, is carrying out a major expansion at the site, near Copenhagen. NETTO A/S placed an order with the materials handling specialists at DAIFUKU Europe Ltd., who supplied the existing warehouse facilities holding some 18,000 pallets, to carry out the planning and implementation of the expansion. Work on the dry terminal will be completed without impacting daily operations and completion is scheduled by December, 2010.

Performance Up – Costs Down

Daifuku — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800

The new fully automatic high-bay warehouse of Swedish supermarket wholesaler Dagab AB is running at 120 percent of the contractually agreed throughput. Within just nine weeks the material handling experts at DAIFUKU Europe Ltd. integrated the entire system, including high-speed conveyor technology, at the Dagab distribution center in Stockholm during normal warehouse operations.

Ordered today, delivered tomorrow

Daifuku — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800

Following completion of the first Mini Load high-bay warehouse in 2007, British book wholesaler Gardners Books set up a second automated book storage system at its Eastbourne headquater. With this new development the wholesaler is more than doubling its warehouse capacity to over 120,000 tote bins and some two million books stored. Responsible for this project as for the first is material handling expert Daifuku Europe Ltd. who is supplying further 18 Mini Load cranes and associated equipment. The installation started at the end of October 2009 and was completet in March 2010.

Daifuku Europe at TLS Congress/Hungary 24./25. November

Daifuku — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800

On 24./25. November 2009 Daifuku Europe will be exhibiting at TLS Congress in Budapest.

Energy Efficiency

Daifuku — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800

Government regulation and increasing long-term energy costs demand that companies in the intralogistics sector now develop highly efficient facilities. Significant Improvements can be made in such areas as control systems, weight optimization of equipment and scalability. Here DAIFUKU Europe Limited offers real solutions.

Japanese High-tech High-bay Racking Store in Göteborg

Daifuku — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800

The expansion and restructuring of their high-bay narrow-aisle warehouse in Göteborg has been a complete success for Swedish supermarket wholesaler Dagab AB: by installing new storage and retrieval units and high-speed conveyor technology the company has doubled the output of goods from 75 to up to 152 pallets per hour. Dagab has also implemented space-saving article storage. In 2,400 m² of storage space, the supermarket wholesaler now has room for almost 10,000 pallets. DAIFUKU Europe Ltd. realized the impressive optimization of the automatic high-bay warehouse in just eight weeks during normal warehouse operations.

Daifuku Europe Ltd. Launches New Website

Daifuku — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800

Daifuku Europe Ltd., the company that engineers and manufacturers high performance automated material handling and warehouse management systems to streamline processes and improve productivity, announces the re-launch of its website, www.daifukueurope.com.

New Warehouse in Ringsted (DK)

Daifuku — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800

SuperGros is a purchasing cooperative of independent supermarkets in Denmark. The country's number 1 wholesale grocer is expanding and building an additional consignment stock warehouse at the facility location in Ringsted. Material handling specialist DAIFUKU Europe Ltd. as general contractor has taken over the planning and realization of the new building.