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It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to our former long-standing Managing Director Gerhard Geist, who passed away on Saturday, September 27, 2025. From 1979 until his retirement in 2016, Gerhard Geist made an extraordinary contribution to our company, first as a design engineer, then as head of design, and from 2000 as Managing Director. Since 2016, he continued to support our company as Chairman of the Advisory Board.

Whether in harsh environments in quarries on Lake Geneva or for internal transport of steel coils in the Siegerland region, battery-powered shunting vehicles reliably perform wagon shunting even with weights of 1,000 tons and gradients of up to 11 per mille. The EMW Stahl-Service-Center in Neunkirchen and Carrière d'Arvel in Villeneuve near Montreux rely on two Roboter Pro shunting vehicles from Vollert.

Vollert supported the expansion of the rolling plant at Constantia Teich in Pielachtal, Lower Austria, with a custom-fit expansion of the existing aluminum coil high-bay warehouse to 150 m in length. In addition to a 23 m high stacker crane, Vollert supplied several manipulators and transfer carriages and provided the connection to the existing control and safety technology. With the expansion of the rolling plant, Constantia Teich is increasing its capacity by around 30 percent to a total of 90,000 tons of aluminium foil per year.

Lufthansa Cargo is investing in the modernization of its logistics center at Frankfurt Airport with an infrastructure program. Vollert has equipped the high-bay warehouse of the Road Feeder Service (RFS) with two new 28-meter-high stacker cranes for the rapid storage and retrieval of air freight from the tarmac to the road. Two completely redesigned Moving Truck Docks (MTD) handle the rapid loading of trucks.

Finnish manufacturer Valtra relies on a clever intralogistics solution for coating tractors. It not only allows chassis weighing up to eight tons to be coated overhead, but also to be buffered in a closed circuit and guided around corners. Two chain pushers in combination with friction wheel drives are used for this purpose. The lean solution guarantees continuous production in automotive eight-minute cycles.

In future, Gränges in Finspång, Sweden, will use a new flat storage facility with an automatic crane from Vollert to organize the entire supply and removal of the new aluminium production area. The warehouse serves as the central interface between the cold rolling mill, the slitter lines and the packaging. Vollert is developing the complete intralogistics system, including coil cooling, inductive transfer cars, an automated guided vehicle (AGV) as well as the control and warehouse management system, and integrating it into an existing hall.

On July 1, 2024, Tobias Zimmer took over the charge of the intralogistics systems division at Vollert Anlagenbau GmbH. With this strategic personnel decision, Vollert is sending a clear signal for further growth in this important product segment.

The Santos export terminal recently started using a PRO DER240 shunting robot to move freight trains weighing up to 3,900 tons. The new addition complements the existing robot fleet on site: A total of seven shunting systems from Vollert now accelerate the low-dust 24/7 unloading of soya, bran and maize in the modernized ship terminals of the two operators TES and ADM.

The seaport operators in Pori, Finland, rely on a radio-controlled shunting solution from Vollert for the rail loading of iron sulphate as bulk goods. A Tandem DER 150 shunting robot provides and moves freight trains weighing up to 2,000 tons. The coupling system is compatible with both Eastern and Central European systems.

For the second time in three years, Vollert's intralogistics specialists have received an order from TBEA to build a fully automated storage and material flow system for steel coils, including a high-bay warehouse. The twin plant for the production of transformer cores in Tianjin, China, is being built in the immediate vicinity of the first production plant. Handling the sensitive steel coils requires sensitive heavy-duty technology and sophisticated storage logic with high structural requirements.

The heavy-duty specialist Vollert from Weinsberg, Germany, is supporting the agricultural machinery manufacturer JACTO in Brazil with the construction of a new combined powder and wet paint coating system. Large parts up to 10 m long, 2.5 m high and weighing 4 tons are coated, including for large coffee and sugar cane harvesters as well as planting and fertilizing machines. To speed up the time-consuming dip coating process, product carriers can be combined for smaller workpieces and separated again for larger workpieces.

Vollert, intralogistics specialist for the global aluminum industry, is developing a comprehensive intralogistics system with a high-bay warehouse and various transport systems for supply and removal in the warm and cold rolling areas for Logan Aluminum. The high-bay warehouse serves as the interface between the rolling mills at the site in Russellville, Kentucky, USA. At a height of 42 m and a payload of up to 30 tons, it contains the largest stacker cranes ever built by Vollert.

Ensinger, a specialist for high-performance plastics, is meeting its customers’ high demands with far-sightedness and future-oriented planning. With a view to future production increases, the manufacturer used a digital twin to analyze its production sequences for weaknesses and develop modular solutions together with retrofitting specialist Vollert, to be gradually integrated into the existing production until 2027. This provides planning safety for investment costs and guaranteed delivery capacity at any time.

Austrian building company HABAU GROUP invested 11 million euros into expansion of its hollow-core slab production in its Perg factory site, increasing capacity by nearly 30% per annum. Just like the entire preliminary planning of their new plant technology, loading and removal processes also rely on sustainable technology, such as an emission-free road-rail vehicle.

Five new tandem shunting robots by Vollert automate and accelerate train loading in the Bogatyr open-cast coal mine in Kazakhstan. The Wi-Fi-controlled shunting machines move trains with lengths of about a kilometer and a total weight of up to 6,900 tons. Their rolling use warrants failsafe operation on four tracks in parallel around the clock.

Two automated Vollert loading cranes ensure quick unloading of vehicle batteries for e-car production from trains at ŠKODA’s headquarters in Czech Mladá Boleslav. Automation reduces lading times while increasing safety in handling of sensitive batteries.

SEW-Eurodrive delivered its two millionth DRN motor in Germany to Vollert in May. These IE3 motors have already achieved energy savings in excess of 50,000 GWh world-wide.

Vollert developed a particularly space-efficient paint shop on two levels for machine and plant constructor KraussMaffei. The workpieces are moving on a crane track at a height of twelve metres. The walk-on painting and working area for the workers is located six metres high on the first floor, and the space underneath can be fully used – protected by a rock-solid fall protection for large parts with weights of up to 30 tons.

SWISS KRONO is accelerating picking for innovative countertops and melamine-coated wood panels for furniture production and interior fittings with a heavy-duty high-bay warehouse by Vollert. All wood formats required for picking will be provided in only two minutes.

Vollert designed a fully automated intralogistics system for the flexible packaging specialist Aluflexpack (AFP) in their production plant in Drniš near Split in Croatia. In addition to a high-bay warehouse with a special treatment zone, the material flow concept for several hundred coils includes the complete automated transport of the very heavy aluminum coils of different lengths and diameters.

Shunting expert Vollert deploys its VLEX robot vehicle for rail and road at Fret SNCF's maintenance site in Modane. The compact road-rail robot moves locomotives weighing up to 120 tons effortlessly into their maintenance boxes.

At bauma 2022 in Munich, Vollert will present the latest machine technology for modern precast concrete production from October 24 to 30 (Hall B1, Booth 225). The focus will also be on the megatrends of digitalization as well as new construction systems and production-side CO2 savings potential. In addition, visitors can discover 360° live on site the latest plant concepts in 3D.

Heavy masses and efficient bulk material loading without endangering people – the transport of scrap and metal presents many challenges. The shunting specialists from Vollert meet this requirement with the robustly designed shunting vehicle for road and rail. VLEX 40 and VLEX 20, the compact product lines equipped with articulated steering are used at ESF Elbe-Stahlwerke Feralpi GmbH in Riesa and at VDM Metals in Unna.

Modern concrete spreaders increase plant productivity in precast concrete plants through precise and fast travel paths and optimized concrete discharge. At the same time, they are an essential quality factor for the produced walls and slabs. In order to extend the lifetime cycles of the machine components used, Vollert, the specialist in plant engineering, now relies on new materials.

For a new transformer core production plant in northern China, intralogistics specialist Vollert is developing and supplying a complete, fully automated high-bay warehouse with 1,500 cantilever arms for coils weighing up to 5 tons. Despite the load weighing tons, the entire intralogistics system must handle the sensitive foil material extremely gently.

Cities and communities in the Heilbronn region were able to present themselves at the Federal Horticultural Show 2020 with a special advertising sign. At the site „Grasiger Hag“ in Weinsberg with a view of the historical castle ruin Weibertreu, this sign has now been firmly installed.

At the Liebherr plant in Ehingen, Vollert planned and built a new ballast painting plant with friction wheel and rope conveyor technology for the coating of crane ballast elements. These are used as counterweights for mobile lattice boom and telescopic cranes with lifting heights of up to 245 m. Depending on the product carrier, elements weighing up to 20 tons can be coated in an overhead, suspended manner. A total of 25 product carriers are in circulation.

A new stacker crane for 11-ton aluminum coils and a modern automatic crane system for extruded profiles have been speeding up the production processes of Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products and Neuman Aluminium since the beginning of the year. For the replacement of the central conveyor systems, two Vollert teams took advantage of the short production-free period over Christmas. With foresighted planning, they mastered the complex tasks even in the tightest of spaces and under tightened pandemic conditions.

The agricultural group Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) relies on two cable-powered shunting robots STANDARD KR 70 and two diesel-electric shunting robots PRO DER 240 from the German shunting specialist Vollert for handling soy and corn at its modernized shipping terminal in Santos, Brazil. In perfect interplay, the shunting machines handle the shunting of freight trains weighing up to 3,900 t in 24-hour operation.

The employees of the machine and plant manufacturer Vollert situated in Weinsberg made to the clinical center of Weissenhof a generous donation of 1,150 euros in favor of the renovation of the water playground of the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.

The new training year at Vollert started at the beginning of September. No less than 5 apprentices started their apprenticeship as technical product designer, mechatronics engineer and industrial clerk.

For almost 100 years we have been your strong and reliable supplier of systems and machinery. The success of our customers and partners was and is firmly anchored in our corporate philosophy. However, how life has changed in the last few weeks presents you and us with challenges unknown today. In view of the worldwide Covid 19 pandemic, we are monitoring the situation on a daily basis. We have to keep our distance, but we still want to keep in touch with you.

With a new model of the road-rail robot VLEX, Vollert extends its compact solution to shunting operations up to 600 tons. Twice as strong, but only 500 mm larger, the new VLEX 40 is also suitable for fast track changes in confined spaces. A swing axle guarantees permanent ground or rail contact of all four wheels, even on uneven ground. And thanks to the emission-free electric drive, operation in closed storage and production areas is also possible. The extremely maneuverable shunting solution of the VLEX 20 is used, for example, in the South Korean metro in Seoul, for moving tank wagons at Lanxess in Leverkusen or for loading lime at Rheinkalk Grevenbrück GmbH.

Modern architecture and new building systems create affordable housing for many people in Africa. At the same time, it will become an important job machine for many countries. To this end, the German concrete plant specialist Vollert is now starting a cooperation with the Technical University of Kenya in Nairobi.

On the night of Monday, 25 November, two DER 240 shunting locomotives - each weighing around 100 tonnes – hit the road from Weinsberg to South America.

At its headquarters in Hagen-Hohenlimburg, the BILSTEIN GROUP invested in a wide quarto reversing rolling mill and a new slitting line with a fully automated buffer store for steel coils with a width of up to 1,350 mm and a weight of up to 31 tonnes. For direct access, these are stored hanging from cantilevers. A fully automatic stacker crane from Vollert ensures smooth storage and retrieval.

In a comprehensive retrofit project, the intralogistics specialists from Vollert modernized the complete conveyor technology of an existing large parts painting plant for the injection moulding machine manufacturer Arburg. While retaining the existing crane runway and painting technology, the processes were accelerated, the painting processes improved and automated and extended parts of the plant technology were added.

Since 2009, the Hungarian Limelog Group has specialised in the transport of high-quality building materials, grain and oversized machines and precast concrete parts inside and outside of Hungary. Since 2011, the company has also been extremely successful in producing reinforced concrete columns and beams. With KOMBISTEP stair formwork and high-performance tilting tables from Vollert's special portfolio, the company is now expanding its stationary precast concrete production.

New terminals on the island of Krievu in Latvia form the modern infrastructure for loading coal in the port of Riga. Vollert supplied a DER 100 shunting robot to the terminal operator SIA STREK.

Vollert erects a new material flow system with high-bay warehouse. It is already the fourth warehouse of the intralogistics specialist at the Mercedes-Benz press shop in Bremen. At the same time, Vollert increased the overall speed of the existing intralogistics processes.

In the quarry of the French building materials specialist Eqiom in the Bar-sur-Aube district, an energy-efficient fully automatic loading station ensures economical processes. For loading gravel, the wagons are constantly pulled through the filling station by an electrically operated KR 100 shunting robot.

Hammerer Aluminium Industries (HAI) is investing in a high-end production line at its Austrian site in Ranshofen. The aim is to produce aluminium profiles of the highest quality for the future topic of e-mobility. With an automatic crane and a fully automated buffer store, the SPS Group and Vollert ensure damage-free material flow between the existing and extended production lines. From planning to commissioning, the intralogistics specialists needed only 12 months.

At bauma 2019 in Munich from 8 to 14 April (hall B1, stand 311), Vollert will be presenting the latest machine concepts for modern precast concrete production. The centerpiece of exhibits is an innovative manufacturing process for prestressed, earthquake-resistant, hollow-core slabs. In addition, visitors will be able to immerse themselves on the spot in 360° virtual tours of current plant projects in Europe and Asia and learn more about the latest trends in production control systems.

3D printers have become indispensable in industry, model making and research. They allow for creating models, samples, proto-types, tools and end products layer by layer in the shortest possi-ble time. The students of the Justinus-Kerner Gymnasium in Weinsberg recently started performing three-dimensional experi-ments while gathering important skills in the new technology.

Vollert is one of Germany's top employers for medium-sized businesses. This is the result of a study conducted by Focus-Business in cooperation with the Internet portal kununu.com.

Truck trailers are useful, but also big and heavy. This does not make their transport in the paint shop easy. Giga Coating GmbH recently built a completely new surface treatment plant in Twist. Here, up to 15.7 m long and 9 t heavy large parts are not only coated, but also blasted, dipped, swiveled and heat treated in hanging furnaces. The automated circulation principle creates capacities for up to 100 trailers and special parts per day in two construction stages.

Vollert currently delivers a total of 11 fully automated cranes to the mega rolling plant project of the Chinese Zhongwang Group. The manipulators link area storages, furnaces, warm and cold rolling, and transport up to 33 t of heavy ingots and coils with a four-fold step speed (4 m/s). For the LogiMAT 2019, the intralogistics specialist presents these and other special crane systems for loads of up to 100 tonnes.

For one day, 500 entrepreneurs slipped into the role of European parliamentarians at the 5th European Business Parliament in Brussels. Hans-Jörg Vollert of the plant manufacturer Vollert from Weinsberg was present as representative of Germany.

For its new factory, Benninghoven, specialists in the construction of asphalt mixing plants up to 50 m in height and a member of the Wirtgen Group, is investing in a new double-track suspension system from Vollert for the overhead surface treatment of large parts. The special drive concept allows the overhead and flexible transport of up to 22 ton heavy parts, while at the same time enabling the energy-efficient separation of transport and furnace steel structures. Besides Benninghoven, in the company group Wirtgen and Kleemann are already using the proven Vollert technology.

Innofreight Solutions GmbH from Austria has developed an innovative unloading station for the paper and packaging specialist, Mondi. As with voestalpine in Donawitz and at the Chvaletice power plant, Vollert's robust and energy-efficient shunting technology ensures reliable processes.

The Minister of the Interior of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Thomas Strobl, has honored plant manufacturer Vollert as a particularly volunteer-friendly employer for civil protection. As a company with a long tradition, Vollert also undertakes responsibility for the region.

At the InnoTrans 2018 Vollert will present the extremely robust road-rail robot VLEX with articulated steering also as a rental model. In addition to permanent use in railway depots and industry, the emission-free, battery-operated and extremely compact VLEX is suitable for temporary use, for example, on construction sites or for peaks during loading. It has proven itself among others at the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG (SSB), at Glencore Grain and at the Kämmerer Papierwerke.

The Brazilian manufacturer Randon has built a 500m long combined welding, painting and assembly line for trailers and railway wagons in the state of São Paolo. Vollert has developed a heavy-duty material flow concept consisting of 13 combined rope conveyor drives, two moving distribution transfer platforms and the control system for the individually timed forward feed.

Vollert erected for Saarstahl AG a new fully automatic high-bay warehouse for up to 665 steel wire coils at the Neunkirchen plant. In addition to the high cycle time of just 190 seconds per double cycle, the heavy-duty engineers also realized the handling of bundles weighing up to 4.5 tons directly from the stacker crane to the lift truck and on to the truck loading.

Neuman Aluminum modernized their material flows in the extrusion plant in Marktl, Austria, during the Christmas holidays. At the core is a new automatic crane system by Vollert with 21 interchangeable cycles for loads of up to 3 tons. It replaces two existing transport cranes and is one of the fastest automatic cranes ever used in the extrusion industry.

Factory lessons must be interesting and exciting in order to inspire children at primary school age for technology and manual work. The associated tools for the new workroom of the Weinsberg primary school were donated by the plant manufacturer Vollert.

For LEWA as a special pump manufacturer and HAMM as a manufacturer of rollers for road construction and earthworks, Vollert developed and installed new floor-guided and overhead material flow systems for surface coating of parts weighing up to 12 tons. While high cycle times are crucial at HAMM, at LEWA for the first-time workpieces weighing tons travel 90° around the corner and thus enable an extremely compact system layout.

Pathfinder Systems, a new agency for the precast concrete industry, is now in charge of the US market.

Nuspl Schalungsbau and Vollert Anlagenbau will pool their expertise much more in the future. Nuspl Schalungsbau GmbH + Co. KG, part of the Vollert Group since 2012, has been fully integrated into the Vollert Anlagenbau GmbH as of October 1, 2017, including the complete range of formwork products. In the near future also customer care, development and production will be housed under one roof at the headquarters of Vollert in Weinsberg.

Experience says otherwise - and yet, here is the fact: The 1,000-meter-long special ropes used in the two shunting systems with standard gauge pusher trucks from Vollert at the Russian refinery Slavneft-Yanos have done their job for 13 years - in spite of almost non-stop use and extreme temperature differences.

With the newly developed VLEX road-rail robot, Vollert offers the finest solution for light shunting operation up to 300 tons: Extremely compact and flexible, battery-driven and exhaust-free, the small VLEX is suitable to change tracks fast in a very confined space.

As part of a trade mission to Germany, some of the largest construction companies in Chile got acquainted with the latest trends within the field of sustainable building systems. Already in 2015, Vollert developed a special construction system for the earthquake-prone Andean Nation in collaboration with the Chilean construction company BauMax and the earthquake specialist Sirve SA. On an Industrial level, BauMax manufactures today anti-seismic walls and ceilings for various construction…

With a retrofit and thorough automation concept, MKM Mansfelder Kupfer und Messing GmbH in Hettstedt is streamlining its internal storage logistics. The special feature: A floor-free, ceiling-guided warehouse handling machine with telescopic column takes care of moving the wire coils, which weigh up to 6 metric tons (6.6 US tons), in and out of storage. Instead of an exchange, the almost 20-year-old device was overhauled and modernized so that it now takes over the processes fully automatically. The most modern control software ensures fluid, rounded and thus low-strain motion cycles.

With an economic growth of more than 7 % Indian is currently one of the most dynamic economic players worldwide. Vollert India Pvt Ltd has been active in India since 2011 and a large number of successful plant projects for the precast concrete production had already been carried out such as with Precast India or Sobha Ltd.

Sugandh Rajaram, the new Indian Consul General in Munich and Hans-Jörg Vollert now exchanged views in a personal interview in Weinsberg on the current developments in…

TRIMET Aluminium SE uses a new and so far unique in the world technique for the cooling of green anodes in its Hamburg factory: The pilot plant reduces the resource usage and dispenses with active cooling by water. Instead TRIMET relies on cooling by natural convection with outside air – and this with success.

During a fact-finding trip to Germany and the Netherlands, some of Singapore's largest building contractors and precast concrete producers learned about state-of-the-art concrete production for precast room modules. Steffen Schmitt and Hans-Jörg Vollert personally welcomed the delegation in Weinsberg and presented possible approaches. They also gave details of Vollert's extensive experience in this area. The main focus was, first and foremost, the production, interior fitting and …

Taking a holistic approach to promoting technology for boys and girls, from preschool to primary schools, through to higher education is the key to assure young staff in technical professions. Weinsberg in its capacity as educational body is now ranked the first city throughout the Federal Republic of Germany that has equipped all school groups with the TeCbox modular construction kits. Several school class sets of the kits "Energie Plus" have met enthusiastic pupils at the collaborative …

Since 1 November 2016, Christoph Müller-Bernhardt has been the new Senior Sales Manager at plant specialist Vollert. The 50-year-old will support the up-and-coming markets of Africa, South-East Asia and the Arabian world in future, making use of his long know-how centred on the production of precast concrete parts.

Christoph Müller-Bernhardt, who was born and spent his youth in Munich, last worked for Weiler GmbH from Gau-Algesheim, where he was expert manager since 2007, and later global…

At ALUMINIUM 2016 (hall 13, stand 13I05), Vollert is presenting innovative material handling and storage systems for smelting works, rolling and extrusion plants. The first system developed with TRIMET Aluminium SE in Hamburg for cooling green anodes using natural ventilation is unique in the world. At Hydro Rolled Products GmbH in Grevenbroich, an end-to-end fully automated intralogistics system supports rapid and damage-free production of high-quality aluminium sheets.

On September 30, 2016 Gerhard Geist will officially be relieved of his management duties. After nearly 40 years he will now have the opportunity to enjoy his well-deserved retirement. His successor will be Dr. Markus Deimel, who has already been working as a new Managing Director since July 2015 alongside Hans-Jörg Vollert. Gerhard Geist joined the company in 1979 as a skilled toolmaker and graduate mechanical engineer, where he held the position of Head Designer from 1982 until he was…

Michael Theurer, Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the Baden-Württemberg FDP gained a close-up insight into the technological capabilities of the plant manufacturer during an on-site company visit at Vollert. Theurer was impressed by the complex engineering projects that the company has been able to carry out worldwide throughout the past 90 years. During a personal conversation with the Managing Partner, Hans-Jörg Vollert, the addressed topics included the current…

At InnoTrans in Berlin (September 20-23, 2016, Hall 23/Booth 305), Vollert as specialist in cost-effective shunting and loading systems for connecting and secondary railway systems will be focusing on mobile electrical shunting solutions. Current projects in Germany and Russia for Tegometall, Shell, and EuroChem confirm the increased demand, not only for autonomous battery-operated systems, but also for cable-fed systems.

Low-loader manufacturer Faymonville dispatches components weighing up to 12 tons through its overhead painting plant in Luxembourg. The material flow concept also comes from a heavy load expert – from Vollert based in Weinsberg. The control system supports automatic operation as well as the manual transportation of parts. Friction wheels facilitate the space-saving plant layout.

At this year's bauma in Munich, which takes place from April 11 through April 17, Vollert will be presenting new plant and machine concepts for stationary and fully automated production of precast concrete elements at booth 206 in hall B1. Taking centre stage are the award-winning and further improved ISO-MATIC 2.0, which cuts insulating material to exact specifications fully automatically, current new engineering and modernisation projects as well as state-of-the-art formwork systems.…

From the 8th to the 10th of March, the intralogistics specialist Vollert will be presenting impressive material flow and storage systems for heavy and very heavy loads, at the LogiMAT 2016 in Stuttgart (Hall 5, Booth 5A40). In doing so, the focus will be on special crane systems, for the metal and aluminium industry for example. Whether hot, sensitive, uneven or several tons in weight - current project examples for AMAG Austria Metall AG and the Chinese Zhongwang group will be used to…

Whether hot, sensitive, uneven or weighing several tonnes - the automatic cranes in the new mega-rolling plants of the Zhongwang Group in Tianjin now move slabs and coils securely and around four times as fast as conventional systems. The technology, control and stores management for this has all come from the intralogistics experts Vollert in the south of Germany.

Aleris International, Inc. plans to boost production capacity in Duffel, Belgium with a new Sexto mill. To ensure smooth operation, Vollert Anlagenbau from Weinsberg will provide a fully-automated intralogistics system with high-bay warehouse. Up to 32 coils with a maximum unit weight of 25 tons are moved in and out of the warehouse each hour.

In the new Siemens AG Austria coating center, metros and passenger carriages are automatically transported via a central transport system to the individual coating treatment booths. The transfer table allows for flexible arrangement of individual processing stations and offers the highest level of safety for crossing passenger traffic.

Anything but small, the exchangeable pavement cassettes used in the world's first fully climatized indoor tire testing facility from Continental weigh more than 100 tons and measure 75 meters in length. The facility allows the tire manufacturer to conduct 100,000 dry and wet brake tests per year using up to five different sections of test pavement. Vollert developed the system that quickly changes the cassettes.

Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products GmbH has commissioned Vollert Anlagenbau to modernise its existing plant in Grevenbroich by designing an end-to-end intralogistics system that automatically loads and unloads lorries, stores up to 4,000 tons of aluminium coil, and uses trolleys with inductive power transfer.

Battery-powered, emissions-free transporters that operate without a driver are being used for the first time at HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA). To quickly and frequently exchange the batteries in the onboard battery boxes, which can weigh up to 12 tons, Vollert Anlagenbau developed a fully automated handling station in close collaboration with Gottwald Port Technology GmbH.

heroal's new high-bay warehouse has the capacity for 10,000 long items and 7,000 euro pallets. A centrally controlled intralogistics system from Vollert ensures a smooth material flow between infeed and outfeed.

The Tikhvin Railway Car Building Plant (TVSZ) is currently building a state-of-the-art plant for assembling open- and closed-top freight carriages in the Russian town of Tikhvin. To this end, Vollert Anlagenbau from Weinsberg was commissioned to manufacture four transfer cars with payloads of between 70 and 100 tons. A heated enclosure installed on top of the cars provides optimal protection against the elements.

A 260-ton automatic crane is the latest highlight in Vollert's intralogistics programme for heavy-duty applications. Capable of travelling up to 2.7 m/s and featuring a 44-m span width, the crane has a 35-ton payload and will be used to transport heavy objects on site at the customer's steel tube plant in Düsseldorf-Rath. The world's market leader manufacturers steel tubes for applications in oil and gas fields, power plants, and the chemical and petrochemical industry.

The SEW-EURODRIVE drive automation system by Bruchsal relies on a simple, flexible material flow system by Vollert Anlagenbau for coating large gearbox units weighing up to 3.5 tons. It combines the advantages of Power&Free systems and requires significantly fewer system components. Nevertheless, comparably high cycle times are possible.

Liebherr breaks new ground with a new large-scale paint shop for hydraulic excavators: The components, weighing up to twenty tons, are conveyed through the system on a guided track while freely suspended. A special drive solution ensures optimal protection against explosion in the painting and drying booths.

F. X. Meiller Fahrzeug- & Maschinenfabrik commissioned its new facilities for coating large items in early July. Two 70 m-long painting tunnels installed in parallel offer space for 14 stations and can each take up to 12 items weighing 8 tons apiece. Two chain conveyor systems from Vollert provide the required pulling force.

At Wirtgen GmbH in Windhagen, world market leaders in the field of cold milling for road construction, components weighing up to 30 tons are freely suspended. The steel construction of the 230 °C furnaces is completely separated from the transport steel construction to protect against energy losses. This is made possible by special drive technology. Even with the heaviest loads, it allows for gap bridging of 70 cm. In addition, it is wear and explosion proof. The system was designed by Vollert Anlagenbau in Weinsberg.

South Korean bottler Login Beverage commissioned Vollert Anlagenbau to deliver a semi-automatic loading station for trucks. The special-purpose loader can move up to 180 pallets carrying 10,000 beverage crates per hour and does the work of three forklift trucks. Twenty different types of truck are serviced.

Schletter GmbH, the largest supplier of solar mounting systems in Europe, has commissioned Vollert Anlagenbau to design a custom manipulator with three hoisters that can work together or separately to lift profiles weighing up to 9 tons with a maximum length of 18 metres. The manipulator will be used in a new buffer warehouse and is extremely compact to ensure optimal utilisation of vertical space.

With a new painting plant, Liebherr is setting the standard in commercial vehicle construction. At the plant in Ehingen, parts from mobile and crawler cranes weighing up to 50 tons will be painted while suspended in mid-air. Vollert Anlagenbau from Weinsberg is developing the intralogistics for this. Wirtgen and SEW-EURODRIVE are just two of the companies also backing the new technology.

The steel manufacturer SSAB in Oxelösund produces steel plates in one minute tact cycle. The information which plate comes next for what customer is only available three minutes prior to the production exit, thus the intralogistics system must react with appropriate speed. The solution supplied by the Vollert plant engineering company from Weinsberg, is achieved by conversion from a surface warehouse to a high-bay warehouse system with two MEGA AS/RS that enable short cycle times despite loads of tonnages.

Vollert Anlagenbau GmbH from Weinsberg, Germany, is developing an entire intralogistic system with a fully automated high-bay warehouse for Asia’s leading aluminium foil manufacturer. The contract from China, with a total volume of approximately thirteen million Euro, is no easy task: The warehouse, which has a capacity of around 14,000 tons, is located in one of the most dangerous earthquake regions in the world and must withstand seismic shocks which measure up to 5 and 6 on the Richter scale. With the new production plant, Xiashun is in a position to manufacture litho material of the highest quality.

Two stacker cranes in a high-bay racking warehouse supplied by Vollert Anlagenbau of Weinsberg ensure a fresh supply of new cars every day at the new BMW Welt in Munich. The short-stay warehouse provides 284 storage positions on four levels and is located 12 metres deep down in the belly of the huge delivery hall. From here, the cars are moved fully automatically to the so-called Premiere Arena – the centrepiece of BMW Welt – for presentation and collection.

When others are running out of steam, the engineers at Vollert Anlagenbau are just getting into their stride, specialising in intralogistics systems for heavy goods – especially for the metalworking industry. For the aluminium extrusion works of apt Hiller for example, Vollert developed a fully automated intralogistics system which facilitates an end-to-end material flow from the extrusion works to the processing department and then on to the downstream anodising plant and newly constructed shipping warehouse. Major parts of the new system were installed and existing systems modernised and integrated while production was ongoing. As well as a higher handling capacity, the virtual warehouse of the transport control system allows optimum utilisation of the space offered by in-process stores, even with different sizes of transport basket.