DSV has announced it has opened a new 95,000 sq m warehouse and office premises near Copenhagen. Together with DSV’s other buildings in Hedehusene, the new warehouse will be part of one of the largest logistics centres in the Nordic Region, with an area of 231,500 sq m by the end of 2022. Sustainability has been a key focus area during the construction process, and a battery solution is currently being tested to store energy from solar cells on the new building.
DSV introduced the facility in response to growing demand for storage space located close to the Greater Copenhagen area from many companies in eastern Denmark.
Managing Director of DSV Solutions Denmark Marcel Blomjous commented: “The warehouse is divided into multiple sections, enabling us to support many different types of customers with their warehousing needs and distribution”.
Among other features, the warehouse includes DSV’s largest AutoStore installation. AutoStore is an automated storage and picking solution which uses robotics to collect goods in a three-dimensional grid structure and then deliver them at the manually operated packing station.
As the AutoStore solution will be available to multiple users at the same time, DSV believes it is particularly well suited for both large and small e-commerce companies that need to be able to scale their stocks quickly, depending on, for example, demand and seasonal peaks.
In other parts of the building, Good Manufacturing Practices and Good Distribution Practices-certified cooling and freezing facilities have been constructed. According to DSV, this makes it possible for healthcare companies with very stringent storage requirements to handle their products in accordance with the existing rules and at several temperature zones extending to as low as -80 degrees Celsius.
Blomjous stated: “In the planning of the building, it has been important for us to create versatile facilities that can meet many different customer needs. In specific terms, this means that, regardless of whether the customer is a healthcare company that needs to store its products at extremely low temperatures or a fast-growing e-commerce business with a need for automated solutions, we can meet those needs”.
DSV reported that the building has been constructed with an overall focus on sustainable solutions as well as reuse and recycling of materials. To minimise the carbon emissions from the operations, DSV is testing a setup with solar cells on parts of the roof, combined with an innovative battery solution.
Provisional calculations from DSV’s partner in the test project, Hybrid Greentech, show that the solar cell and battery solution can reduce carbon emissions by up to 42.0% relative to a scenario without solar cells and battery. The battery stores solar energy during the day, so that the energy can also be used during the evening and night. In connection with excess generation of solar energy during the day, the surplus energy can be supplied to the national power grid.
With the current solution, the annual carbon emission reduction will amount to approximately 113 tonnes of CO2 annually. When the test has been concluded, DSV will assess whether to expand the battery solution and whether to use it at other new DSV facilities around the world.
Source: DSV
