Poste Italiane has unveiled a logistics centre in Italy in Landriano, Lombardy, and is claimed to be the largest in Italy. The hub comes as part of a €60m total investment and has a total area of 80,000 sq m, with 40,000 sq m of that being indoor space.
The hub is equipped with a sorting system made up of four interconnected machines capable of processing more than 300,000 parcels per day. The system divides the packs by destination as well as weight and volume on 694 outlets, allowing the processing of 39,000 pieces per hour. Autonomous mobile sorting technology, incorporating the use of 17 robots, also forms part of the system. Within the plant, there are 174 loading places with direct docking on the vehicles allowing packages to be immediately loaded onto the vehicle upstream and downstream of the sorting process.
The sorting capacity of over 300,000 parcels per day make the plant a fundamental part of Poste Italiane’s infrastructure, together with the company’s hub in Bologna, Piacenza and the Centro Passo Corese hub near Rome.
The new hub has been built with sustainability in mind, receiving an “Excellent” BREEAM certification. Solar panels on the roof power the hub during the daytime, reducing 210 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually. The hub also has full LED lighting, as well as water saving control systems.
Source: PosteNews
