BEUMER Group awarded contract for automated parcel sortation system for Relais Colis sorting centre located in Paris area

Aarhus, 25. October 2016 BEUMER Group - a leading global supplier of automated material handling systems for the parcel and post industry – has been awarded the contract to design and integrate a new automated cross-docking parcel sortation system at Relais Colis' Sortation Centre in Combs-la-Ville, Paris area (France). With a capacity of 300,000 parcels per day, the new automated system will enable the Paris Sortation Centre to process 3 times more packages, in half the time, compared to the existing manual system. This is Relais Colis’ first contract for an automated sorter and is part of company-wide re-organisation of its sorting centres, relay points and hubs. A second automated system is scheduled to be in the Lyon Sortation Centre in 2017.