Nagel-Group inaugurates civil engineering works to enlarge the logistics site for dairy products in the Allgäu region
Buxheim/Memmingen. Nagel-Group is expanding its Buxheim branch by 11,000 pallet spaces. The contract logistics site is located on Bavaria’s western border with Baden-Württemberg. After completion, it will have about 33,000 pallet spaces. Nagel-Group serves various customers in Buxheim. The temperature-controlled multi-user warehouse is specially designed for storing dairy products.
The ground-breaking ceremony was held on 2 September 2021. Construction is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2022. Nagel-Group is investing about 15 million euros in the Buxheim site expansion: It involves expanding storage capacities and installing an automatic conveyor line connected to high-rack storage plus a photovoltaic system on the roofs of new and existing buildings.
Cross-border flows of goods to Switzerland, Italy and Austria
Christian Berlin, Managing Director for Germany at Nagel-Group, who attended the ground-breaking ceremony, explains: “Buxheim is an important warehouse site for the region in the south of Germany and is perfectly designed to meet the handling needs of dairy products.”
“By expanding, we are enabling our major customers from the Allgäu region to grow further. We are also expanding our range of value-added services in Buxheim. Our site in neighbouring Bad Grönenbach will supply the foodstuffs to our tightly-knit network and distribute the goods, both nationwide and to other European countries.” The Buxheim and Bad Grönenbach sites are located just off the Memmingen junction of the A7 and A96 motorways. This favourable location makes them particularly suitable for cross-border trade headed for Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, and Austria.
Photovoltaic system is installed
In addition to expanding the hall capacities at the Buxheim site, a photovoltaic system will also be installed. “The PV system will cover about 35% of our energy needs. This is roughly equivalent to the annual energy consumption of 480 three-person-households,” says Karl Sigloch, Branch Manager of the Buxheim and Bad Grönenbach sites for Nagel-Group. “As a ZNU-certified company, we attach great importance to high standards as regards sustainability: that is why we have always opted for LED lighting and electronic industrial trucks. Not only that, we have a trainee project dedicated to insect-friendly gardening,” Sigloch describes. Following the expansion, the surface water on the 62,400-square-metre site will be fed into the groundwater directly on site by percolation. Moreover, 15 custom-insulated loading gates will be installed to reduce energy loss during loading and unloading.
About Nagel-Group
Nagel-Group, which specialises in food logistics, operates throughout Europe and has its headquarters in Versmold. It employs over 12,000 people in more than 130 locations. The company group moves food consignments of all sizes and in all temperature ranges on a daily basis. Whether frozen products, meat, dairy products, coffee or sweets, whether on instructions by manufacturers or retailers, Nagel-Group daily provides consumers all over Europe at the point of sale with the right goods in the right quality at the right time.
Nagel-Group takes on logistics for organic dairy company Gläserne Molkerei GmbH
Hamburg/Kabelsketal. Gläserne Molkerei GmbH has selected Nagel-Group as its long-term logistics partner. Since July 2021, Nagel-Group has been responsible for the nationwide distribution of Gläserne Molkerei products from the Dechow plant in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and an external production site in Saxony-Anhalt. Before distribution, Nagel-Group stores the goods in its Hamburg or Kabelsketal branches.
Gläserne Molkerei GmbH is an organic-only dairy. All of the milk, butter, naturally matured cheese, and other dairy products it produces – yoghurt, for example – is made from regionally sourced organic milk. Gläserne Molkerei GmbH was looking for a partner that would bring to the table a sustainable logistics solution. ZNU-certified Nagel-Group fulfilled the strict requirements, notably because of its concept to reduce CO2 emissions. The concept has recently earned Germany’s largest food logistics company the Lean & Green Star award. Dirk Otto, Head of Vertical Cross Sector at Nagel-Group, who is responsible for the Gläserne Molkerei GmbH account, explains: “Our efforts to make logistics more sustainable and our strong network are a key building block for our partnership with Gläserne Molkerei GmbH.”
Gläserne Molkerei GmbH has adopted a sustainable approach across the entire value chain. “In addition to implementing energy and packaging management measures, we also set ourselves ambitious targets in the logistics process,” explains Markus Hedderich, Head of Operations & Supply Chain, Gläserne Molkerei GmbH. “Nagel-Group’s dense distribution network allows us to optimise the movement of goods and thus deliver them in a cost- and energy-efficient manner, even when we are faced with seasonal fluctuations.”
About Gläserne Molkerei GmbH
Gläserne Molkerei GmbH is an organic dairy that mainly processes milk from organic farmers in northern and eastern Germany. The dairies in Münchehofe, Brandenburg, and Dechow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, are open to the public, allowing visitors to literally see milk-based drinks, cheese, butter, and yoghurt produced before their very eyes behind glass (gläserne) walls.
About Nagel-Group
Nagel-Group, which specialises in food logistics, operates throughout Europe and has its headquarters in Versmold. It employs over 12,000 people in more than 130 locations. The company group moves food consignments of all sizes and in all temperature ranges on a daily basis. Whether frozen products, meat, dairy products, coffee or sweets, whether on instructions by manufacturers or retailers, Nagel-Group daily provides consumers all over Europe at the point of sale with the right goods in the right quality at the right time.
Weekly linehauls for temperature-controlled transport between Finland and Germany
Nagel-Group partners with DB Schenker • Wider terminal network in Europe • Coverage of all destinations through timed services
Vantaa/Versmold, July 13, 2021 – Nagel-Group and DB Schenker have joined forces in offering a wider distribution network for foodstuffs in Finland and Germany. Thanks to the new partnership agreement customers of both companies can reach their consignees in all destinations through timed services. Transport temperatures for temperature-controlled shipments are from +2 to +6o C for chilled goods, -18o C for frozen goods and from +15 to +25o C for goods stored in room temperature.
The partnership expands the terminal network of temperature-controlled goods in Germany and Finland, main hubs being Hamburg in Germany and Vantaa in Finland. DB Schenker will operate weekly temperature-controlled linehauls between the hubs and distribute direct and groupage shipments for Nagel-Group in Finland. Mutually, Nagel-Group will distribute groupage shipments for DB Schenker in Germany and other represented countries.
“In our core markets, we guarantee the highest quality of service with our own network, but in order to distribute goods throughout Europe, we rely on strong partners with the same quality standards. The cooperation strengthens our partner network for the European market in the Scandinavian region. From the northernmost point in Finland to the southernmost points in Europe, we can distribute goods within 72 hours. This benefits our customers and our partners, such as DB Schenker,” says Marcel Vogler, Executive Director Transport at the Nagel-Group.
Partnering with Nagel-Group is a natural expansion of DB Schenker’s temperature-controlled network. DB Schenker has similar agreements with STEF in Italy, France and Iberia. STEF and the Nagel-Group also work together in a close partnership.
“The launched cooperation will offer new possibilities for temperature-controlled import and export in road transport by means of full and part load shipments, groupage and distribution. We are seeing an increasing customer demand for international transportation of foodstuffs while batch sizes are getting smaller. With our new offer we can perfectly serve this demand. Now we can offer wider range of services to our customers both in Europe and Scandinavia”, says Petteri Nurmi, CEO of DB Schenker in Finland.
About DB Schenker
With around 74,200 employees at more than 2,100 locations in over 130 countries, DB Schenker is one of the world’s leading logistics providers. The company operates land, air, and ocean transportation services, and it also offers comprehensive solutions for logistics and global supply chain management from a single source.
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About Nagel-Group
The Nagel-Group, headquartered in Versmold/East Westphalia, is a family-owned company operating throughout Europe and specialising in food logistics. The group employs more than 12,000 people at over 130 European locations. Every day, it transports around 100,000 food consignments of all sizes and temperature classes throughout Europe. This makes the unique network the leader in Germany and the leading provider of temperature-controlled logistics services in Europe.
Whether it’s frozen products, meat, dairy products, coffee or confectionery – day after day, the Nagel-Group helps ensure that consumers throughout Europe find the right goods at the right time and in the right quality at the point of sale on behalf of industry and trade. In this way, the Nagel-Group makes a significant contribution to the success of its customers. The range of services extends from procurement logistics, transport and distribution to warehousing, order picking and packaging, as well as value-added services such as display construction, labelling and customs clearance. Foodstuffs are moved in all temperature classes (from ambient to frozen). The entire range of shipment sizes also finds its way through the Nagel-Group’s European network: from parcels to general cargo, part loads and full loads to tanker loads. A secure and high-performance IT landscape rounds off the service.