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A commitment to the region: ground-breaking ceremony in Lenningen for the new distribution center for global logistics of Leuze electronic
Construction is underway on Leuze electronic's new distribution center in Unterlenningen, approximately 4 kilometers from the main location of the company headquarters. With an amount in the double-digit millions, the company is investing in its national and international logistics to supply its customers and subsidiaries even faster and better. The ground-breaking ceremony was held on June 25th. Completion is planned for mid-2020.
Owen, June 25, 2019 – The highly successful business performance and double-digit growth course of
the past years continued at Leuze electronic globally in all market segments in 2018. Sales volume
last year even considerably exceeded the threshold of 200 million euros. "A continuously high number
of orders poses a positive challenge and requires a new form of global warehouse logistics," says
Jochen Wimmer, Chief Operating Officer at Leuze electronic. Leuze electronic is therefore investing
globally in new structures: construction began on a new central distribution center in Singapore at the
start of the year which will operate in the local time zone. Its opening is planned for August 2019. With
the construction of its new distribution center in Unterlenningen, the company will be able to even
better meet the needs of its national and international customers and subsidiaries around the world.
On June 25, Leuze electronic held the symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for the project. The central
distribution center for its global logistics is being constructed approximately 4 kilometers from the
company headquarters, nestled in the landscape of the Lenningen valley. It offers space for the
logistics areas of incoming and outgoing goods, automatic small-parts warehouse as well as storage,
order picking and shipping. The logistics hub – which can still be expanded further – will, in the first
stage, offer approximately 40,000 shelf spaces on a floor area of 4000 square meters. The
construction project is being executed by the Leonberg-based construction company Mörk. The
company will accompany all planning and project management and the entire construction process
related to the new building. The draft presented to the municipal council includes a bright, friendly
building and spatial concept: glass roof domes and attractive office workplaces as well as meeting
rooms allow employees to work in a bright environment flooded with daylight. With this multi-million
euro investment, Leuze electronic makes a clear commitment to the region, to the location of its
company headquarters and to its roots. The first sensors were developed here in 1963. Today, Leuze
electronic is one of the innovation leaders for Industry 4.0-capable sensor solutions in industrial
automation and has approximately 1,300 employees around the world. About half of the sensor people
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work at the company's headquarters in Owen/Teck in the Swabian region of Germany. With this
investment, Leuze electronic sends a clear signal with regard to growth objectives and future
orientation. From tradition into the future. The course has been set.
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Bild 1: groundbreaking ceremony in Unterlenningen, June 25-2019.
Bild 2: Exterior view of the emerging new distribution center of Leuze electronic.
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Contact addressLeuze electronic GmbH + Co. KGIn der Braike 173277 OwenPh.: +49 7021 573-0Fax: +49 7021 573-199E-mail: [email protected]: www.leuze.com
More than 50 years experience have made Leuze electronic real experts in innovative and efficient
sensor solutions for industrial automation. Its main focus is on the areas of intralogistics, packaging
industry, machine tools and automotive industry, as well as laboratory automation. The product
range includes switching and measuring sensors, identification systems, solutions for image
processing and data transmission and also occupational safety components and systems. Leuze
electronic was founded in 1963 at the current headquarters of the sensor system manufacturer in
Owen/Teck, southern Germany. With its extensive international sales and service network,
competent consulting and reliable customer service, Leuze electronic serves customers worldwide.
More than 1200 sensor people at 22 locations are involved in development, production, sales and
service – supported by more than 40 sales partners around the world. Every single day, each one
of them delivers the Smart Sensor Business promise to their customers: to think easy, share
experience, offer proximity and create the future:
www.smart-sensor-business.com .
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Press inquiriesLeuze electronic GmbH + Co. KG, OwenMartina Schili, Phone +49 7021 [email protected], www.leuze.com
