Amber Beverage Group, a global manufacturer and distributor of alcoholic beverages, has signed an agreement with Jungheinrich, the world’s leading manufacturer of warehousing equipment, to purchase the equipment needed to build an automated high-bay warehouse worth 15.5 million euros, the company informs.
Acquiring an area of 8.9 hectares in the territory of the Port of Riga, it is planned to start the preparations for the most modern warehouse area in the Baltics already in April this year.
“It is important for us to ensure the most efficient cargo or pallet management for our partners in more than 185 countries, so we continue to develop our company’s investment projects. Most of our investments are in the core of the new warehouse – modern equipment and technologies, which confirms” Amber Beverage Group “ambitious plans to become one of the 10 most influential and modern players in the beverage industry in the world,” comments Jekaterina Stuģe, CEO of Amber Beverage Group.
“We are pleased that a logistics automation project of this scale will be implemented in Latvia. Due to its size, complexity and level of automation, this project is significant not only in the Baltics, but also in the whole of Europe. pallet and small goods conveyors, automatic picking systems “Pick-By-Light” and “Put-By-Light”, fully automated loaders, and we will connect it all together with the most powerful warehouse management system, “comments Maris Supe, Jungheinrich Lift Truck sales manager in the Baltic States.
The project is being implemented in cooperation with the design company “AI ENGENEERING”, and in total it is planned to acquire more than 33 million euros during the project. In the first stage of construction, it is planned to acquire more than 24,000 square meters, creating automated warehouse order storage, assembly and issuance areas, as well as the administrative part.
The high shelf part of the automated warehouse does not provide for the location of employees and all processes will be provided without the direct presence of people. The total height of the warehouse will reach 24 meters, where pallets will be placed on top of each other on shelves on 9 floors.
The company’s current warehouse capacity is 25,000 pallet places, while the new warehouse will be able to store 35,000 pallets at a time, expanding the warehouse capacity to 45,000 pallet places if necessary. With the establishment of the new warehouse, it is planned to merge the three existing Amber Beverage Group warehouses in Riga, with the planned flow of the new warehouse reaching 360,000 processed pallets per year.
Amber Beverage Group is a beverage manufacturer, distributor, logistics supplier and retailer with more than 600 brands represented, from vodka and sparkling wines to Mexican tequila. The company has grown from its original manufacturing business, founded in 1900, to a global player in the alcoholic beverage industry, with 2,000 employees in nearly 20 companies in the Baltics, Austria, Mexico, Australia, Russia and the United Kingdom.
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