Heine+Beisswenger opens new logistics centre
After 15 months of construction, German steel distributor Heine+Beisswenger has started operating its new logistics centre, for which it spent €7 million ($7.7m), Kallanish learns from the company.
The warehouse is located at the company’s site in Trossingen in the Black Forest, southwestern Germany. Its main feature is a high-bay warehouse of 44 metres in length, 23m width, and 22m height, with 3,500 cartridges. The warehouse has a capacity of 15,000 tonnes, with several processing facilities, to serve customers in automotive, agriculture, mechanical engineering, and medical technology, the company notes.
Heine+Beiswenger handles long products, and is mainly active in special bar qualities, with an annual throughput of 250,000t. It is headquartered in Fellbach and operates seven more sites, most of them in southern Germany, but also in North Rhine-Westphalia and near Berlin. It plans to open a new location in northern Germany near Bremen.
Christian Koehl Germany
