Warehouse robotics company Geekplus, together with STL, their official partner in the Nordics region, are proud to announce the successful deployment of the new PopPick Lite solution for the Danish lifestyle retailer Søstrene Grene at their distribution center in Venlo (Netherlands). This marks the eight project together with STL and the landmark for more future projects during the following months.
The project is another success of an implementation of the Shelf-To-Person system together with our partner STL. In this case, a total of 64 P1200 robots, 8 picking stations, more than 400 racks and 300 pallet location are working together on a surface of around 3000 sqm to increase warehouse efficiency.
“We saw a need to automate our warehouse systems, primarily to handle a changing product range and increasing volumes—something that would otherwise require extensive development of our logistics setup. That made STL and Geekplus the right match for us,”
says Claus Tjærby, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Søstrene Grene.
“We are incredibly proud to collaborate with such a prominent Danish retail chain as
Søstrene Grene. The project in the Netherlands has been both ambitious and meaningful—and the completed setup is a strong example of how automation can future-proof logistics,”
says Ole Madsen, CEO of STL.
The new PopPick station brings a different way of working for employees that improves their ergonomics while increasing throughput and accuracy. The system, which brings pallet and boxes for picking operations, is a clear example of flexibility and modularity: both operations can be processed at the same time; boxes are connected to a put wall with conveyors; compatible for different size of products and with the possibility to scale at any time while reducing the space for fixed machinery.
A partnership built for replication
From Denmark’s first PopPick to fashion and retail projects across the Benelux, STL and Geek+ have delivered repeatable mobile-robotics systems that shorten implementation and are shaping the Nordic robotics playbook.
“Our partnership with STL shows how fast, flexible automation can be rolled out. This is our eight project together and represent a prove of how to work quickly and efficient as we released this new product in March during LogiMAT and we can say outloud its implementation is already a success,”
said Simon Houghton, Sales Director for Northern Europe at Geekplus.
