Newsletter_12-2022_EN

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New fully automated warehouse
expands storage and boosts
logistical infrastructure
Additional investments across the company support customer supply needs
With a total investment of approx. 20 million
euros, the new fully automated building provides
storage space for materials with highstock
turnover rates such as packaging components
and thus optimizing our logistical
infrastructure. In addition, valuable capacity
will be freed up in the existing warehouse.
Construction of the warehouse began in
April 2021 and was designed to further address
our strategic expansion plans. “We have
already taken a process-related expansion
concept into account during our planning
process. The warehouse operation will initially
start with a two-shift operation which can
be extended to three shifts per day,” explains
Peter Mayer, Senior Vice President Customer
Project Management, Procurement and Logistics.
The new storage facility includes 7,700
sq. meters of logistics space consisting of
1,200 sq. meters for incoming and outgoing
goods and 6,500 sq. meters of room temperature
storage with the capacity for more
than 16,000 pallets and a shelf height of 14
meters. The state-of-the-art high-bay warehouse
is equipped with automated forklifts
and six positions for trucks on a receiving
area ramp connected to the transfer area.
Four driverless shuttles connect the transfer
area with the building’s shelves while four
driverless forklifts operate between them.
“The additional warehouse is a further testament
of our commitment to support our
customer’s supply chain needs,” states Managing
Director Peter Soelkner. “We have
also planned for more investment projects
that will help us to continue the momentum
of sustainable growth of our company.” The
numerous investments at all our sites include
the recently completed extension of the
development service laboratories as well as
a new multipurpose building at the Ravensburg
South production site that houses laboratories
for quality control, thawing rooms,
offices and a new attractive employee can-
teen. The completion of another production
building for aseptic manufacturing, at the
CDMO’s Schuetzenstrasse site, is planned
for the end of 2026, with several new cleanrooms
to be realized in the subsequent years.
In addition, the implementation of further
automated visual inspection machines is
planned. Managing Director Thomas Otto
summarizes: “Despite the multi-faceted challenges
we currently face, such as pandemic
as well as political and economic circumstances,
we will continue to invest over the next
years to expand our capacities in the areas
of development services, aseptic filling, visual
inspection and packaging to meet the
increasing market demand. The planned expansions
will go hand in hand with the optimization
of the infrastructure across all our
sites.”
Vetter Pharma International GmbH
D 88212 Ravensburg
Neues, vollautomatisches Lager für Verpackungsmaterialien. © Vetter Pharma International GmbH