Vetter, a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), is investing €20 million to commission a new warehouse to help meet increasing customer market supply demands. The new fully automated building provides storage space for materials with high-stock turnover rates such as packaging components, optimizing the company’s logistical infrastructure. In addition, valuable capacity will be freed up in the existing warehouse.
 
Construction of the warehouse began in April 2021 and was designed to further address the company’s strategic expansion plans. “We have already taken a process-related expansion concept into account during our planning process. The warehouse operation will initially start with a two-shift operation which can be extended to three shifts per day,” said Peter Mayer, Senior Vice President Customer Project Management, Procurement and Logistics. 
 
The new storage facility includes 7,700 sq. meters of logistics space consisting of 1,200 sq. meters for incoming and outgoing goods and 6,500 sq. meters of room temperature storage with the capacity for more than 16,000 pallets and a shelf height of 14 meters. The state-of-the-art high-bay warehouse is equipped with automated forklifts and six positions for trucks on a receiving area ramp connected to the transfer area. Four driverless shuttles connect the transfer area with the building’s shelves while four driverless forklifts operate between them.
 
“The additional warehouse is a further testament of our commitment to support our customer’s supply chain needs,” said Managing Director Peter Soelkner. “We have also planned for more investment projects that will help us to continue the momentum of sustainable growth of our company.”