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Greiwing, promotes mutual understanding and trust, which is particularly important to us.”
“As recently as 2019, we invested €6m in a logistics center for food products at the Logport and expanded the storage capacity by 8,000 pallet spaces.” This latest work is said to be costing some €13m. As in previous projects, the construction work is being undertaken by Goldbeck Nord as general contractor. “We have been a satisfied regular customer of the contractor for a good five years and this new building is part of a series of successful joint projects. We receive all planning and constructionrelated services from a single source that has been a decisive factor for us since the beginning of the collaboration,” says Greiwing. “It is particularly nice for us when one of
QUICK CONSTRUCTION The new logistics centre will be used to store, process and transship a wide variety of free-flowing goods from the chemical and plastics industries up to water hazard class (WGK) 1 in accordance with the HACCP and GMP standards. Loading and unloading takes place via four ramps. Greiwing says: “With the expansion, we are underpinning our growth ambitions. Our Duisburg location will continue to play a central role in the company-wide network of locations in the future.” It is also anticipated that the expansion will create 20 new jobs at the site, taking headcount over 150. The official groundbreaking ceremony for this expansion stage took place in August and, according to plans, the work will be completed in May of next year. Andreas Wermelt, project manager at Goldbeck’s Münster branch, explains: “We owe the short construction time to our system construction and the high level of vertical integration. We manufacture modular precast concrete elements in our own factories. These elements are then simply put together on the construction site according to the ‘Lego’ principle.” “Visible customisation and invisible standardisation work particularly well when we are involved in the planning from the start, as was the case again with this building project,” adds Terwey. The location in Duisburg currently has 67,700 pallet spaces, a 40-tonne gantry crane, a container tipping station, a silo interior/exterior cleaning facility and its own
our customers becomes a ‘repeat offender’ and commissions us again,” says Christian Terwey of Goldbeck’s Münster branch. “This is great praise for us and confirms what we are doing. At the same time, the recurring cooperation, which also takes place supra-regional and nationwide with
truck workshop. Greiwing has ten logistics centres across Germany and a fleet of 200 tractor units and more than 550 special trailers. Its main customers are in the plastics, foodstuffs, chemicals, construction and pigments sectors. www.greiwing.de
SILO MENTALITY POLYMERS • GREIWING IS EXPANDING ITS DUISBURG FACILITY AGAIN TO HELP HANDLE INCREASING DEMAND FROM THE LOCAL CHEMICAL AND PLASTICS INDUSTRIES GREIWING HAS BROKEN ground on another expansion of its location in the Logport facility in Duisburg, Germany. A 5,000-m² logistics centre with 12,300 pallet spaces in mobile racks, together with 15 high silos for the storage and filling of free-flowing goods are being built on a 11,800-m² site on the Hamburgerstrasse. Completion of the work, scheduled for May 2021, will take capacity at the facility up to 80,000 pallet spaces and 27 silos. “The location in Duisburg has developed positively over the long term. With the new expansion, we are now creating the conditions to continue on this path,” says managing partner Jürgen Greiwing.
ADDITIONAL CAPACITY AT GREIWING’S LOGPORT SITE IN DUISBURG WILL OFFER MORE SPACE FOR LOCAL PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS
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