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Agrarian giant Gregoire Besson announces new automated
miniload warehouse in France by Mecalux
The French company, dedicated to the
technological agribusiness sector, will
have an automated mainland warehouse
for boxes – with a capacity of
more than 10,000 boxes – built.
The miniload warehouse is comprised of two
double depth aisles where a stacker crane will
circulate and be tasked with executing the input
and output of 400 x 600 mm sized boxes,
each weighing a maximum of 50 kg. In the
header of the automated warehouse, three
P&D stations are set up to prepare orders of
smaller products. In addition, the installation
will be equipped with six conventional pallet
rack aisles with a capacity for 4,440 pallets
and a cantilever rack for over-sized products.
Thanks to the different storage solutions
provided by Mecalux, Gregoire Besson
will optimise space and, at the same time,
streamline order preparation.
Gregoire Besson, with almost 200 years’ experience,
is a leading French company in the
manufacture of agricultural machines and
in the implementation of technological solutions
designed to optimise land produced
resources.
With a large representation worldwide, their
ploughing machines are innovative, efficient,
robust and adaptable to the characteristics
of any type of arable land.
Home decor’s largest
warehouse: Mecalux
will equip Maisons
du Monde with new
installation
The new conventional pallet rack warehouse,
of the French company specialised
in home decor, will be built within
a 96,000 m² logistical centre located in
Saint-Martin-de-Crau, a town in the
south of France.
Distrimag, the company responsible for distributing
products to customers of Maisons
du Monde, has once again commissioned
Mecalux with supplying a warehouse for
pallets. Since 2007, Mecalux has built them
10 warehouses that are divided into 4 logistics
centres (Saint Martin, Fos Distriport,
Feuillanne and Boussard) and that allow
the storage of a total of 304,000 pallets. In
this way, Distrimag commands 477,600 m 2
of storage in strategic locations in the south
of France, extending its firm grip on the decoration
market.
Founded in 1990 by Xavier Marie, Maisons
du Monde has 260 shops spread throughout
France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Switzerland,
Germany and Belgium, and which employ
more than 4,500 workers. The Group
has more than 40,000 high-quality products,
making it one of the leading companies
in home decor in France.
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