Panopa Logistik expects more steel business for 2011
Increase of worldwide demand for steel nourishes Panopa Logistik’s hope for additional orders from the steel industry
At Panopa Logistik GmbH the increase in demand for steel products by 5.3 per cent to 1.34 billion tons, prognosticated by the International Iron and Steel Institute for 2011, nourishes the hope for a rising share of external awarded logistics orders from the steel industry. “A bigger demand for steel normally causes a bigger logistics effort. At the same time the steel enterprises are confronted with high raw material prices and hence an increasing pressure on costs and optimisation of supply chains“, Dr. Andreas Hucht, contract logistics manager Panopa Logistik GmbH, comments about the current situation. In the steel logistics segment Panopa Logistik operates currently 130,000 m² warehousing space at seven locations in Europe. Material throughput amounts to about 5 million tons per year. The services are ranging from delivery of raw material, warehouse management and just-in-time production supply to delivery of steel products. “Standardisation and bundling effects save costs. The customers can also benefit from fixed costs that are conversed into variable costs, the takeover of investments and the flexible adjustment of services to volume fluctuations“, explains Hucht. Panopa Logistik GmbH, headquartered in Duisburg, is a 100 percent subsidiary of the international corporation Imperial Logistics International GmbH and offers customer-oriented logistics services along the supply chain. The spectrum ranges from procurement logistics and warehouse management to sequencing, preliminary assembly, production supply, spare parts logistics and worldwide organization of shipments right through to managing fleets of vehicles. The contract logistics provider is specialized in the automotive, steel, machinery production, plant engineering and transport management sectors. Panopa’s 2,000 employees at 35 locations in Europe generated lately annual sales of around EUR 200 million. Quelle: LogEastics |
