The metal forming division of steelmaker voestalpine has reported a large order for a high bay warehousing systems for sporting goods for a Turkish logistics service provider in Istanbul, Kallanish learns.
The order includes the construction of a high bay warehouse and an automated small parts warehouse. It will have a height of almost 40 metres, a length of 222m and a width of 86m, composed of custom roll-formed profiles made at the division’s site in Krems, Austria.
With a total volume of around €41 million ($48m), the order is the company’s biggest for warehouse systems so far, it notes.
The metal forming division uses sections, tubes and precision strip steel products and ready-to-install system components made of pressed, stamped and roll-formed parts in its warehousing systems.
In the Netherlands, two 45-metre-high high-bay warehouses were recently completed for the distribution centre of furniture retailer JYSK. Another such project is currently being implemented for a retail company in the UK. The new facility, a fully automated pallet racking system, reaches a height of 30 meters and comprises thousands of storage locations for palletized and small goods.
The Austrian group says it plans further development of global activities in the area of storage systems. In the 2024/25 business year, a specially designed production site was built in Kentucky, which voestalpine says will be expanded with additional systems in the current business year.
