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Automatically lifted up

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.

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An inspiring debut

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.

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Seamless shift changes for fresh goods

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.

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Individualised solutions for the paper industry

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.

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Safety first

The numbers are impressive: Over a surface area of 126 football fields in Wismar, Egger processes in the region of million cubic metres 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.

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New intralogistics concept for better processes

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

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The most natural thing in the world

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 travelling to Cluny to see for themselves the benefits of Linde robotics equipment.

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Feature

50 years of Linde electric forklift trucks

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.

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From Güldner to the Linde MH headquarters: An industry with a rich history

The year is 1956. American actress Grace Kelly has just married Prince Rainier of Monaco, women are wearing petticoats and men are slicking back their hair, and Brigitte Bardot is celebrating her international success following the release of 'And God Created Woman'. Whilst all this is going on, 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.

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Interviews

The next big thing

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

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We are the systems integrator for internal material flow

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.

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Customer case studies

Automation that Cuts No Corners

Long distances, narrow spaces, steep ramps—all combined in a busy environment with people and trucks working side by side. At the Ansbach headquarters of the German plastics specialist Oechsler AG, three Linde L-MATIC HDs ensure the consistently efficient flow of goods around the clock.

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Higher is Faster Here

The products of a well-known gardening tool manufacturer are stored up to 13 metres high at the Seifert Logistics Group in the north of Ulm, Germany. Yet despite this considerable height, the reach trucks not only load and unload the shelves extremely quickly, but also extremely safely. This is mainly thanks to Linde’s Dynamic Mast Control (DMC) assistance system.

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Efficiency Maximized

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.

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A Project with Wide-Reaching Impact

For FIEGE, one of Europe’s leading contract logistics companies, automation has been part of working life for years. The company is now partnering with Linde Material Handling to tackle another innovatory project: automated wide aisle storage and retrieval by driverless reach trucks. A visit to the site of the pilot project in Worms, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Fertile Ground for Healthy Growth

Italian company Madi Ventura has been a key player in the world of nuts and dried fruits for more than 80 years. Recently, they worked with Linde MH to overhaul and future-proof intralogistics at the main site near Milan—including by implementing flexible, scalable automation solutions.

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Fully equipped for the future

‘More Possibilities’: for global market leader in innovative scaffolding systems Wilhelm Layher GmbH & Co KG, this customer promise is at the heart of everything they do. And the catchy slogan applies to intralogistics too, as demonstrated by the use of the X-series electric forklift trucks from Linde MH. At the company’s headquarters, they easily shoulder the same loads as their internal combustion colleagues – and may soon become a permanent fixture in the fleet.

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The seventh R is a V

Flying high: The Linde V modular ensures greater safety and speed when picking orders high up at Richter+Frenzel.

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An internal combustion stronghold converts to electric

It started with E and continues with X: the company Westfälische Drahtindustrie (WDI) is pushing for a switch from internal combustion to electric forklift trucks at its central German plant in Hamm. The Linde X50 puts in a convincing performance during the four-week field test, even with heavy loads.

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Unbeatable handling and zero emissions guaranteed

With the ultimate goal of electrifying their entire fleet in the future, the specialists at Liebherr have tested the E160 electric forklift truck in action over the course of several weeks.

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Electric forklifts in their element

First came one test machine, then another two were added, and the aim is that soon, the entire fleet of 8-tonners will be powered by environmentally friendly lithium-ion technology. At leading mineral water producers Gerolsteiner, the Linde E80 offers impressive proof that electric forklift trucks have no trouble matching up to their combustion-powered equivalents.

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Where there's an obstacle, there's also a way

The most fascinating equations are known to be the ones with multiple unknown variables. One such variable was to be found in the ‘Automation’ chapter of the Requirements Specification from paper specialists Franz Veit. How can the transportation tasks be reliably handled in a production and warehousing environment whose face is constantly changing?

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Quiet but powerful

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.

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Signature move(s)

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

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Keeping goods moving

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 from Linde.

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Schenker takes full control of its forklift truck fleet

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

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More fish for life

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.

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In action to improve safety

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.

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Between charges: opportunity charging

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.

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System: changed

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.

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Safety scrutinised from an objective perspective

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.

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It doesn’t just look good on paper

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.

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Rack and roll

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.

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“A whole new operating experience”

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.

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Two value creators in full swing

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.

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“In a word—spectacular!”

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.

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A refreshing performance

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.

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The X Factor

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.

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The most natural thing in the world

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 travelling to Cluny to see for themselves the benefits of Linde robotics equipment.

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Optimization is a question of chemistry

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).

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Employee portraits

Head of Truck Assembly

“Working at Linde means working with a highly motivated team, which fully identifies with the product as well as the company.”

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Trainer at Linde Sales Academy

"As a global player in the premium segment, Linde also offers non-engineers challenging roles and extensive development opportunities."

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Production Mechanic

"Anyone looking for a stable environment and responsible employer has come to the right place at Linde."

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FMEA Moderator

"I help to ensure that our products and processes are continuously improved – an exciting and varied challenge."

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Almost as fast as Formula 1

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.

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A breath of fresh air in logistics at Heidelberg

In times of increasingly individualised 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.

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In use on the race track

The Linde Rental Solutions has been ensuring fast and professional set-up 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.

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Goods transport with automated fleet

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.

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