VDL ETG and Inther Group work together on new warehouse

VDL Enabling Technologies Group (VDL ETG), part of the Dutch VDL Groep and a global development and production company of components for leading companies in the high-tech industry, has asked Inther Group to supply the intralogistics system for their recently opened warehouse at the XL Business Park in Almelo. This is where VDL ETG plans to centralize their logistics.

This warehouse will be equipped by Inther Group with an automated logistics system, which will be used for storage and order picking of materials for various production sites in the region.

The total solution at VDL ETG will be driven by Inther LC Software and will include the following components:

' 230-meter conveyors from Inther Conveyor Equipment
' Two shuttle corridors for a total of 44,000 storage locations
' Six ergonomic goods-to-person workstations
' Mezzanine for goods to person operation
' Eight receiving workstations, a palletizing robot machine, elevator and integrated scales

Paul Hermsen - CEO at Inther Group: "From our experience and technical knowledge, we first started with a thorough analysis beforehand, to get a good understanding of the project for the best-possible solution. In order to make optimal use of the entire height of the warehouse at VDL ETG, we are going to separate the two goods flows on two levels with an additional mezzanine. The inbound/outbound goods flow includes a loop with six picking stations. The pallet output will be equipped with a palletizing robot."

Hermsen continues: "Here we also use the AS/RS system (with compartmentalized bins) as a sequencing buffer for palletizing. We have delivered this way before, so this project also fits perfectly into our portfolio." Per aisle we are talking about 35 levels here and that 13 meters high and 60 meters long, which are additionally triple deep. In total, the system involves over 44,000 storage positions. "This allowed us to already take VDL ETG's future growth ambitions into account when designing the system, and to make the entire intralogistics system compact enough to allow for multiple expansions in, for example, storage and/or picking capacity in due course," Hermsen concludes.

The goal is to deliver the project by the end of 2025.