12/16/11 Vanderlande Industries acquires Beewen
After working very closely together for many years, Vanderlande Industries and Beewen agreed on a take-over of Beewen by Vanderlande. This take-over further strengthens the position of Vanderlande as an integrated player with a full product portfolio. In the new set-up Beewen will be the AS/RS centre of competence within Vanderlande with the prospect of growth in line with the strategic ambitions of Vanderlande Industries.
11/21/11 Vanderlande wins baggage handling system contract for Saudi Arabia International Airport
Vanderlande Industries has been awarded the contract to supply and install the baggage handling system for the new terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The contract has a value of over EUR 125 million, one of the largest contracts in recent years in the world. The new terminal will open in 2014.The baggage handling system order forms part of the total contract for the terminal which was awarded to the Saudi Binladen Group, one of the largest Contractors in the Middle East. The owner of the airport is the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA).
09/12/11 Vanderlande supplies systems for 3M European Distribution Center expansion in Germany
Vanderlande Industries has won the order to supply and install the order picking and sorting system for a major expansion of the 3M European Distribution Center in Jüchen, Germany. Vanderlande will also handle the connection to the existing logistics systems and will install a new material flow control system, all without interrupting operations in the centre.The new facility will be located opposite 3M’s existing European Distribution Center. It will be operated by the Kleine group, with most of the planned floor area of about 40,000 m⊃2; dedicated to the 3M operations...
06/30/11 Vanderlande Industries sees improving markets
Vanderlande Industries achieved sales of EUR 566 million and net earnings of 3.9% of sales or EUR 22 million in financial year 2011 (ending March 31st 2011). Sales increased slightly by 3% from EUR 549 million last year, while net earnings were slightly lower. The company has benefited from the recovery of the Distribution and Parcel & Postal markets by increasing order intake in both segments. Customer Services have continued to grow and sales exceeded the EUR 100 million mark. Total order intake, however, decreased to EUR 509 million which is 17% below last year’s figure. This was mainly due to the general weakness of the Baggage Handling market in financial year 2011. The Baggage Handling market is late-cyclical, and is now showing signs of recovery...
05/12/11 Vanderlande Industries named as Top Employer for fifth year running
Vanderlande Industries has been awarded the title of Top Employer 2011 as a result of independent research on HR practices by the CRF Institute. This is the fifth year in a row that Vanderlande Industries has been awarded the Top Employer title. The research results have improved since our first award in 2007, proving that our core values ‘Drive to Win’ and 'Every day better' have increasingly become a part of everyday business at Vanderlande...
04/04/11 Vanderlande Industries secures second order at TNT Australia
TNT Sydney’s Priority and International depot will be moved to a new location (existing building). An excellent moment to change from a mechanized manner of working into an automated sorting system. The small building has been a challenging factor since multiple processes need to take place in an automated manner. The depot is intended for the processing of all relevant freight categories: bulk, road express, priority, international, book-in, incompatibles, and other services provided by TNT Express...
03/31/11 Vanderlande Industries wins major baggage handling contract at JFK Airport
Vanderlande Industries announces that it has been awarded a contract for the design and installation of a new airport baggage handling system at Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The contract is scheduled for completion in March, 2013. Ewout Cassee, President of Vanderlande Industries Inc., said “We are very proud to make a major contribution to the modernization of the Terminal 4 operations. The new baggage handling system with a capacity of 6,500 bags per hour, will guarantee smooth baggage flows resulting in an improved passenger experience."...
03/21/11 Amsterdam Airport Schiphol opens the world’s most modern baggage hall
Vanderlande Industries and IBM helped Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to create a smarter baggage system at baggage hall South that gives more precise ability to manage the growing amount of baggage that is expected to pass through the airport in the future. The new modern baggage hall was opened officially yesterday. The new baggage handling hall, which is located to the south of Departure Hall 1, is part of the airport’s 70 Million Bag (MB) programme to increase the capacity of the airport by 40 percent to 70 million bags in the future...
03/08/11 ACSA enlarges service contract after successful World Cup
Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has signed two service contracts with Vanderlande Industries for the coming 5 years at O.R. Tambo International Airport in South Africa. The first contract is for the renewal of the existing maintenance contract for the baggage handling systems in the Central Terminal Building. The other contract is for the full operation of these systems. This means a considerable extension of the service activities performed by Vanderlande Industries at the airport in Johannesburg...
02/22/11 TNT Perth in full operation with CROSSORTER from Vanderlande Industries
State-of-the-art automated parcel handling technology is part of nationwide upgrade of TNT’s express delivery hubs and depots
TNT’s largest fully automated parcel sorting system in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, using sorting technology from Vanderlande Industries, is now fully operational following the official opening at the end of February 2011. The global express specialist’s new $40 million depot at Welshpool, near Perth in Western Australia, is part of a two-year $100 million investment to enhance parcel and freight delivery across Australia and internationally. The new 20,000 square metre flagship depot is central to TNT’s goal of providing Australia’s number one express freight delivery service...
01/26/11 Vanderlande Industries expands activities in materials handling systems in North America
Vanderlande Industries today announced that they will expand its business in the Distribution and Parcel & Postal market segments in North America. “After successfully completing the largest materials handling system globally at the Worldport for UPS, we have decided to combine our location in Louisville with the office based in Atlanta in order to further increase our competitive edge in the materials handling systems market,” explains Ewout Cassee, President of Vanderlande Industries North America...
12/20/10 Vanderlande systems for controlled temperature sorting at Integra2, Madrid
Vanderlande Industries has supplied two material handling systems for the new facility of logistics service provider Integra2 in Getafe, near Madrid. The main distribution platform there consists of two material handling systems: an EXPREXORTER for the sorting process, and a system for full pallet movement based on infloor-towline technology...
10/12/10 New to build Holland hub for DPD equipped with latest CROSSORTER 1500
After an intensive cooperation with DPD Netherlands, Vanderlande Industries has won the order for a new to build hub. The so called Holland Hub will be located in Veenendaal (the Netherlands) and will be operational in May 2011. The reason for DPD to build a new hub is their continuous growth and increased capacity needs. This new
system will support DPD in their needs now and in the
future and in their service towards their customers…
10/07/10 Vanderlande extends high performance ergonomic PICK@EASE order picking workstation family
Vanderlande Industries has extended the PICK@EASE workstation family with a workstation optimised for customers requiring Value Added Services in their order picking process. This workstation is especially beneficial for technical wholesalers and retailers which handle parts
& components and spare parts...
09/27/10 Vanderlande’s VISION WMS validated successfully for the 10th year in a row on system functionalities and quality by Fraunhofer Institute
Vanderlande Industries’ VISION Warehouse Management System (WMS) has successfully been validated for the tenth year in a row by the renowned German Fraunhofer Institute of Logistics and Material Flow. The validation is performed each year by means of a questionnaire on about 500 different system functionalities, material flow controls, other key components and services of the software system provider...
08/17/10 Large retrofit at TNT Euro Hub Liege
Early July TNT Express Worldwide (Euro Hub) and Vanderlande signed an order for a retrofit. The order consists of a replacement of the FSCs, the PLCs and the installation of ‘missing pin’ detectors at the POSISORTERs at TNT’s air hub in Liege, Belgium. Only a week later the activities started because the hub needs to be ready before the busy period starts again end 2010...
07/29/10 UPS Worldport Expansion Project completed
After four years of dedicated hard work and cooperation between UPS and Vanderlande Industries, the UPS Worldport Expansion project in Louisville (USA) is now finalized. Senior executives of UPS, Scott Wicker and Mark Scherrens, along with Joop Broeksteeg, President of DPP division for North America and Michiel Peters, President and CEO of Vanderlande Industries, visited Vanderlande
Industries headquarters in The Netherlands to celebrate the
successful completion of the project...
07/12/10 New automatic parcel-sorting system order for Vanderlande Industries from Bartolini Corriere Espresso
Vanderlande Industries has received an order from Bartolini, Italy’s number one express parcel company, to install a further automatic parcel-sorting system in its new logistics centre in Landriano, south-east of Milan. The new sorter is the 18th such system to be installed in Bartolini sorting centres throughout Italy. Together with three existing
centres, Bartolini’s new facility will serve the greater Milan area...
07/05/10 Satisfactory order intake for Vanderlande Industries in difficult market
Vanderlande achieved an order intake of EUR 611 million in financial year 2010 (ending March 31st 2010). This order intake is comparable to that in the previous financial year and provides the company with an order book amounting to EUR 811 million, a solid starting position for the company that currently operates in a difficult market...
06/30/10 Vanderlande Industries receives order for new baggage handling system at Zvartnots Airport, Armenia
Vanderlande Industries has been awarded the contract for a new baggage handling system for the new International Terminal at Zvartnots International Airport, located in Yerevan, Armenia. The system will be installed in a new International Terminal, giving the airport the capacity to handle the increasing flow of passengers…
06/30/10 Vanderlande Industries launches new automated case picker
Vanderlande Industries has successfully completed development and implementation of its Automated Case Picker, which forms the heart of the company’s new Automated Case Picking system. The Automated Case Picking system is especially aimed at retailers, who require high throughput to handle a large product range with a variety of cases...
06/17/10 Vanderlande Industries UK Ltd receives Fourth Gold RoSPA Safety Award
For the fourth year in succession Vanderlande Industries UK Ltd have been awarded the prestigious RoSPA Gold Achievement Award for Occupational Health & Safety. The award was presented at a ceremony at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in May alongside the Safety & Health Expo, Europe’s leading annual health & safety exhibition...
06/16/10 New vanderlande-dinamic extendibles welcomed by the market
The Vanderlande-Dinamic extendible conveyors have been enthusiastically received in the market, with orders being placed by a number of customers. As well as their use in new projects and as standalone equipment, these extendible conveyors also allow quick and convenient extensions and changes to be made to material handling
systems in parcel and postal sorting depots...
06/16/10 New parcel sorting system for MTN in Italy
Vanderlande Industries has won the order to deliver a new parcel sorting system to MTN, part of the Italian logistics and express courier company Log Service Europe Group, which itself is a member of the Logistics World Alliance. Within Log Service Europe, MTN is responsible for express service operations. The new system will be located in...
06/09/10 Vanderlande Industries' BAXORTER For Danang Airport In Vietnam
Vanderlande Industries has been awarded the contract for an upgrade to automatic sorting with BAXORTER for Danang International Airport in Vietnam. This demonstrates that even regional airports of a modest size see the benefits in automating their baggage handling process with BAXORTER...
06/08/10 Vanderlande Industries Strengthens Relationship with SAP and Joins PartnerEdge™ Program
Vanderlande Industries strengthens its partnership with SAP by joining the SAP PartnerEdge™ program. Vanderlande has already cooperated intensively with SAP since 2003. As part of the PartnerEdge program, Vanderlande has optimised the interface between the SAP environment and Vanderlande’s VISION Warehouse Management and Control System (WMS/WCS)...
05/18/10 Onninen builds new automated warehouse to improve order fulfillment and customer service
Onninen has selected Vanderlande Industries to design and implement the material handling system (including warehouse control system) for its new order fulfillment centre in Hyvinkää, Finland...
