ENFR CONTACT ABOUT FIVES ALL ACTIVITIES + FINANCE SUPPLIERS CAREERS NEWS | PRESS You are here: News | Press Fives announces strategic partnership with AutoStore and strengthens its position as an integrator of cutting-edge automated solutions Fives announces strategic partnership with AutoStore and strengthens its position as an integrator of cutting-edge automated solutions FRANCESMART AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS 19 october 2021 Fives, one of the world’s most preferred partners for transforming supply chain facilities, announced today its partnership with AutoStore, the Norwegian designer and manufacturer of a robotic, cube-based, automated storage and retrieval system. As part of its development strategy, Fives is giving a new dimension to its business in Europe, thanks to the rapid implementation of complete AutoStore solutions, thus supporting growth in the retail, e-commerce and 3 PL sectors. Providing customers with an omnichannel capability E-commerce, retail and 3PL customers already trust Fives to automate their processes with high-speed conveying, sortation and case picking solutions. AutoStore technology is complementary to Fives’ technology portfolio and will enable Fives to broaden its offering to piece picking to support its customers in omnichannel automation challenges, while giving AutoStore the extra boost needed to tackle the French, Spanish and Italian markets where Fives demonstrates leading positions. Fives will develop AutoStore projects, enabling customers to achieve superiority in terms of density, throughput and reliability over their competitors and therefore seizing opportunities on micro fulfillment centers and additional markets. Modular and complete solutions integrating robotics The simple AutoStore design allows for a wide variety of cost-effective solutions, from small "stand-alone" systems to large systems with more than 100,000 bins as part of an overall logistics or production facility. Fives, through its Smart Automation Solutions Division, will be able to market, configure, install, and maintain the AutoStore system as a subsystem or as a stand-alone solution. "We continue to grow at a strong rate, and we are therefore delighted to be partnering with AutoStore, a recognized key player in the industry, as it will enable us to expand our market presence, with the global support of both teams”, said Massimiliano FOCHETTI, Global EVP Sales and Marketing for Fives' Smart Automation Solutions Division. “AutoStore is delighted to bring on Fives as a partner to strengthen our network of distributors and system integrators. We have great expectations for the partnership, and especially welcome Fives strong presence in Southern Europe,” declared Karl Johan LIER, CEO of AutoStore. To learn more about AutoStoreTM empowered by Fives Related Files 2021.10.19_PR-Fives-Partnership_Autostore_eng.pdf234 KB BACK As an industrial engineering Group with a heritage of over 200 years, Fives designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for the world’s largest industrial players in various sectors such as steel, aerospace and special machining, aluminium, the automotive and manufacturing industries, cement, energy, logistics and glass. As part of its R&D initiatives, Fives aims to offer solutions which continually anticipate the needs of industrial companies in terms of profitability, performance, quality, safety and environmental protection. A major figure in the development of the industry of the future, Fives strives every day to highlight that industry can do it – our motto. In 2020, Fives achieved a turnover of €1.61 billion and employed more than 8,000 people in about thirty countries. FIVES AT A GLANCE LEGAL NOTICESITEMAPCREDITSPRIVACY POLICYCONTACT FacebookTwitterInstagramLinkedInYouTube Imprimer