STAMH PROFILE
STAMH is an engineering company providing consultancy, design, engineering, delivery, and implementation of complex automated warehouse equipment, including warehouse management software. Established in 2000, the Austrian headquartered company operates in Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and other countries around the globe.
Nadia Blagoeva, Technical Director of STAMH shares that: “The whole idea of the company was to develop a team of engineers, specialised in complex intralogistics processes. We started from Bulgaria as a first branch, and throughout the years we have progressively developed our engineering teams and sales efforts in all Balkan countries.” Article by Jordan Yallop.
ASan international company providing design, consul tancy and engineering of advanced automation and mechanised warehouses, the capabilities of STAMH also extends to the management software required to keep these systems running.
Nadia Blagoeva, Technical Director of STAMH said: “Our philosophy is to start with listening. This is a behaviour that society seems to be missing more and more in our current lives. The idea behind this approach is to understand the needs of our clients, to analyse, and based on our engi neering knowledge, to start developing a concept that is directly connected with the main factors of input from the clients’ side.”
In the last 20 years, the company hasn’t stopped developing intralogistics projects in many countries in South-Eastern Europe as well as in Asia and Africa.
Ms Blagoeva added: “Our engineering approach shapes us as a different company on the market. There are companies that are doing consultancy, others are doing building concepts, another would produce racking structures or technologies. But we are everything in one place.”
For the fourth year in a row, STAMH took part in one of the largest intralogistics exhibi tions in Europe - LogiMAT in Stuttgart, and for the first time at Logismed in Morocco.
“One of the nice surprises we encountered at these events,” noted Ms Blagoeva, “was the
industry’s readiness to invest in semi-auto mated and robotic systems. This could be based on new demands after the pandemic, and the intention to develop their production bases and logistics hubs based on better long-term planning.”
Highly engineering,specialisedandsoftware teams
STAMH Group is focused on different types of Automated Storage Systems for boxes and pallets, Vertical Automated Storage and Retrieval Solutions, dynamic Gravity Systems for pallets and boxes, Conveyers and Automated Sorting Systems, Mobile Racking Systems for pallets and long mate rials, industrial palletizers and robocars.
The company has its own software depart ment, providing comprehensive technology, covering even the most sophisticated int-
ralogistics requirements. STAMH delivers deeply customised Warehouse Management Software (WMS), and designs and develops Custom Automation Software on demand.
STAMH’s total staff number across its offices currently sits at more than 150 people. To date, the company has successfully completed more than 11,500 projects across more than 20 countries, worldwide.
When talking about the most popular prepandemic products, Ms Blagoeva unveiled: “Before Covid the most profitable projects were our Automated Solutions, with fully integrated equipment that substitutes rou tine manual activities and on the other hand, optimises the space in all dimensions. But today, the inflation from 2022 gave us another view of the markets. For example, semi-automated solutions such as the Mobile
Racking Systems save space and are consid ered a good base for profitable investments.”
STAMH is currently working on three fully automated projects, centred around heavy pallets organisation and warehouse processing. Pallets will be elevated, stored, a nd retrieved with stacker cranes. The com pany also has contracts with fulfilment centres that hope to improve their ability to cope with the new market demands and the increased number of orders they need to process simultaneously.
One of the latest STAMH Group projects for fully automated-storage system for pallets was in Greece, for one of the leading dairy producers. It underlines the company’s inge nuity when it comes to space optimisation and process organisation.
The Self-Supporting Automated System is the first of its kind, given the seismic activity in this area. It was executed in compliance with the agreed terms for installation and in compliance with all international require ments for health and safety at work. The building has specific air-tightness levels needed for the installation of an innovative fire prevention system. It is based on the gen eration and filling of the space with nitrogen.
“The new equipment provides our client with the possibility to store, organise and process a larger number of products in terms of inventory and volume within the same area, in an extremely secure and cost-effective way,” stated STAMH Group’s Technical Director.
Vision for future innovations
Ms Blagoeva notes that STAMH has felt a freeze in investment intentions regarding fully automated warehouses due to the cur rent situation and prices rising. Meanwhile, there has been a noted boom in the robotics segment. This is due to the lower initial investment levels of these solutions, when compared to fully auto mated warehouses, and the easily upgradable nature of the robotic solu tions, implemented by STAMH.
STAMH’s offerings on the robotics front include robotic systems for boxes or stacks palletizing, industrial robots, and sorting and picking robotic systems. Industrial robots have a wide variety of applications in dif ferent intralogistics operations. Smaller and more manoeuvrable robots are used
for packaging, sorting, orders picking, assembly, and disassembly. Large robots with higher capacity are preferred for heavy products palletizing.
STAMH Group’s achievements
With more than 20 years of experience in mobile bases production and the constant implementation of Mobile Racking Systems around the globe, STAMH is constantly upgrading its production facilities, while simultaneously enlarging the team who take care of the PLC programming and electrical designs modelling.
“This will give the company an advantage, because it will lead to the faster implementa tion of these systems within just 10 to 12 weeks,” stated Ms Blagoeva.
As with any successful business, there is a need for a clear and unobstructed supply chain. This is becoming more and more dif ficult in recent times due to many outside factors affecting different swathes of the industry. One of the key elements that can mitigate these factors is reliable suppliers andMspartnerships.Blagoevasaid:
“Without our partners we wouldn’t be in position to do our business at all. They are part of our success story. All our suppliers are our long-term partners,
and this is important for trust generation, going both ways. One of the main ideas for such partnerships is to have clear accounts and a similar vision for future innovations.”
Six key business principles
STAMH’s overarching mission is to provide customised solutions for every storage need. It’s the reason why STAMH’s enthusiastic, professional, and motivated teams start the day with a smile, creating tailor-made, easy to implement, and working solutions.
Other important business principles are professionalism, dedication, respon sibility, respect, and last but not least –social
“Theresponsibility.responsibilityof the company and its clients is as important to STAMH, as the responsibility to the society,” concluded Ms Blagoeva. “Our company ethics, the con stant effort towards improving the working conditions and safety of our people, as well as our participation in numerous social and donation projects are only some of the ways STAMH works for a better tomorrow.” n
