Logistics & Transport
Go with the flow Vanderlande is a global leader in the design and manufacture of multi-functional sorting systems for airports, warehouses and parcel hubs. The company continues to extend its competitive edge with its latest award-winning baggage-flow solutions that eliminate traditional labour-intensive practices and optimise the cost of total ownership, as Philip Yorke reports.
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anderlande Industries was founded in Veghel, the Netherlands in 1949 and began by manufacturing conveyer systems for the loading of agricultural produce onto ships. Today the company is a major force in the development of automated handling technology and acknowledged as one of the world’s most innovative. Its core businesses provide a wide range of fully automated material handling systems for baggage flow at airports, as well as for providing advanced robotic systems for warehouses and postal distribution centres.
Today the company’s extensive product portfolio of integrated and intelligent software and life-cycle services, provide fast and reliable automation solutions worldwide. Currently the company has over 6,000 employees and in 2018 recorded revenues of more than 1.6 billion euros.
Unrivalled “end-to-end” logistics Despite stiff competition, Vanderlande’s new ‘BagFlow’ system has been selected as the winner of this year’s inter airport Europe Industry Europe 89
