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Check out in our latest video all the great features of the AGILO AGV: its omnidrive to move quickly and easily even in confined spaces and its gripping table which can load and unload from both sides. The AGILO drives to the conveyor belt, grabs various load carriers and delivers them to the robot line.

Check here our virtual presentation from the Parcel+Post-Expo online conference about “Load carriers as enabler for robotics, AGVs and IoT”.

For the 9th year in a row K.Hartwall has been ranked Achiever of the year by Kauppalehti. Companies receiving the certification are stable businesses with solid growth, good financial results and profitability, a strong financial structure and liquidity.

K.Hartwall got directly impacted by the current pandemic as company Board member and earlier CEO John Hartwall has peacefully passed away this week after a short but aggressive illness caused by the COVID-19 disease.

Company board member and earlier CEO John Hartwall has peacefully passed away after a short but aggressive illness caused by the COVID-19 virus.

The global spread of COVID-19 is beginning to have a major impact on all of us. Despite the circumstances K.Hartwall Group is doing its outmost to keep the business and all production units running as normally as possible.

K.Hartwall participating to the Modex Show for the first time this year. We will display our latest material handling equipment solutions for the US market. The hero of our show will be the Liftliner, the most innovative tugger train system on the market today. Visit our booth to see it live!

On 7th of November our ISO certificates 9001:2015 and 14001:2015 for Quality and Environment were renewed for the three years to come. It is important for us to always strive to improve our quality and environmental performance requirements.

K.Hartwall has been doing business with Russian retailers for many years and strongly believe that the retail industry in Russia is now at a turning point.

After China and South Africa K.Hartwall continues its Junior Sports Support Program around the world. The next stop is in Serbia. The selected children are from two junior volleyball teams – girls and boys – named Toplicanin.

K.Hartwall continues to carry out the welfare program it launched two years ago to support a Junior Sport Team (JST) in each of the countries where it is doing business. The third awarded Junior Team is situated in Sanjiang, China.

K.Hartwall receiving their membership plaque from HRH Princess Anne as part of the 100 years celebration of the Chartered Institute of Logistics, an organisation for professionals involved in the movement of goods and people.

One of our novelties this year is the LiftLiner TwinLift, the most innovative tugger train design on the market. Its compact design allows safe and ergonomic loading from both sides combined with perfect tracking.

For the 7th year in a row K.Hartwall has been ranked Achiever of the year by Kauppalehti. Companies receiving the certification are stable businesses with solid growth, good financial results and profitability, a strong financial structure and liquidity.

The main theme for Posti’s Supplier Day this year was “Innovation” as the group has been working with suppliers to develop solutions to strengthen their operations and competitiveness in the future. One example is the Parcel cage that will be used in line hauls between sorting centres.

K.Hartwall, Finnish provider of returnable logistics solutions, announced today the acquistion of A&A Logistik-Equipment GmbH & Co. KG., a German company providing logistics equipment for different industries. During the past years A&A has heavily invested in developing tugger train solutions and AGV’s.

LOGY is the largest network of logistics and purchasing professionals in Finland. At their seminar on May 16 gathering over 100 professionals K.Hartwall talked about managing load carriers on a new level.

We are participating to Foodex, UK’s premier trade event for the food and drink processing, packaging and logistics industries. Among other the show will shine a light on top trends across the food manufacturing sectors such as improving traceability and consumer trust or transforming productivity.

We are very happy to see another Junior Sport Team enjoying our Sponsorship Program. This time the team is located in South Africa, more exactly in Philippi close to Cape Town.

I am pleased to announce that Jerker Hartwall has been appointed CEO for K.Hartwall as per 7.9.2017, says Risto Pyykönen, Chairman of the Board.

K.Hartwall is exhibiting at Drinktec in Munich 11-15.9 together with our partner Logipack, Stand A2.115. We will also be at Post-Expo in Palexpo Geneva 26-28.9, Hall 4 Stand 9090.

Earlier in June K Hartwall held a one day seminar at Cranfield University, supported by the CILT, looking at the supply chain challenges faced by modern retailers.

K. Hartwall has recently opened a new sales arm in China, K. Hartwall (Suzhou) Trading Co., Ltd., only one hour from Shanghai. The reason for establishing the new organisation is that we see China as a fast growing market and the place to be in the coming years.

K.Hartwall was participating for the first time to LogiMAT in Stuttgart 14-16 March at stand 9F36 

The automotive industry in Mexico has grown fast over the past few years and now represents 20% of the country’s manufacturing base. Nowadays most of the main car manufacturers and their suppliers are based in the country because of the lower labor costs and rapidly growing skilled workforce.

PostNord is the leading Postal operator in the Nordic region. Last year PostNord delivered over 5 billion letters and 130 million parcels to 25 million residents and 2 million businesses throughout its 6,000 distribution points in the Nordics.