thyssenkrupp Materials to invest in European warehousing

thyssenkrupp Materials Services is lining up more than €70 million ($78m) investment for its operations in Germany, Hungary and Poland, Kallanish learns from the company.  Its main project is the greenfield construction of a logistics hub in Rotenburg on the Wümme river in Lower Saxony.

The new German hub will have a storage space of some 36,000 square metres, and hold a volume of up to 20,000 tonnes of materials, to enable “… the widest possible availability of materials,” the company says. This project alone is assessed to cost €60m. Construction will be starting at the end of the year and will extend into 2021.

Another €11m has been lined up for expansion of existing sites in Poland and Hungary. Nowe Marzy, the company’s central site in Poland, built in 2017, will see built another 13,500m² warehouse. Another new 6,500m² workshop will be built at the company’s Hungarian site in Budapest.

“The sites will be equipped with connected processing facilities and digitally harmonised processes so that we can offer better response to customer requests, while they can concentrate on their core business,” says tk Materials Services’ ceo, Klaus Keysberg.