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Change in Management at Morath Automatisierung GmbH7. January 2026Alexander Platter assumes sole Managing Director responsibility at Morath Automatisierung GmbH with immediate effect. With more than ten years of international experience at ROFA’s U.S. location, he brings extensive expertise in automation, project management, and corporate leadership. He will leverage this experience to strategically develop Morath Automatisierung GmbH and strengthen the company’s long-term growth and sustainability.With this realignment, Morath Automatisierung GmbH continues to focus on continuity, competence, and the long-term, future-oriented development of the company. For me, the team always comes first. It is especially important that every staff member feels treated fairly, enjoys coming to work, and performs their role with satisfaction and pride. Only in an environment where appreciation, trust, and collaboration are actively practiced can we achieve sustainable success together“, says Alexander Platter. [...]
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Celebrating 25 Years of Dynamic Logistic Systems B.V.10. July 2024From the founding in 1999 to our current standing as a well-respected provider of intralogistic subsystems, our journey at Dynamic Logistic Systems B.V. has been shaped by a pioneering spirit and a commitment to excellence. Our story traces back to 1997 when the late Mr. R.R. Hollander, co-founder of Nedcon Magazijninrichting B.V., received a pivotal request from Albert Heijn, the largest food retailer in the Netherlands, to develop an automated solution for full case order picking. This momentous inquiry laid the groundwork for the creation of the Order Release Module (ORM) and ultimately, the establishment of Dynamic Logistic Systems in 1999. The first two ORM’s, deployed at Albert Heijn in 2002 and 2005, proved to be remarkably efficient, withstanding the test of time and remaining fully operational to this day. The success at AH in the Netherlands spurred further deployments at ICA, former AH’s sister company in Sweden, where an additional 3 ORM’s were built in 2006 and 2007. Since these pioneering implementations, Dynamic Logistic Systems has continued to evolve and innovate, refining the ORM and expanding our portfolio to include a range of efficient material handling solutions. From Accumulating Friction-Drive™ Conveyors and the revolutionary DLS Trolley to Sequencers for high-speed sortation including DLS 90-degree diverts, our products simplify logistics while ensuring peak efficiency and quality. Joining the ROFA Industrial Automation AG Group in 2015 advanced the professional development of DLS. Our collaboration with US distributor DMW&H in 2018 further expanded our reach, more permanent positioning our innovative DLS products on the US market. As we remember 25 years of growth, resilience, and innovation, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to our clients, partners, and team members who have played a key role in our success. Your trust and support have fueled our journey and inspired us to continually push the boundaries of what’s possible in intralogistics. Here’s to celebrating the past and embracing the future with optimism and determination. Thank you for being part of our success. [...]
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New member of the management team at Morath Automatisierung GmbH4. April 2024Andreas Baumer will join our team at Morath Automatisierung GmbH as a new member of the management board with immediate effect. We are convinced that his skills and expertise will make a significant contribution to the success of Morath Automatisierung. “Individually encouraging and supporting our team members, deploying them strength-oriented and self-responsible in order to present a collectively strong team and providing high-quality work by means of cutting-edge technologies that customers can rely on and our staff can identify with, these are important principles for me in order to establish a solid basis and retain long-term relationships with our staff and customers”, says Andreas Baumer. [...]
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BSS receives award as Top Supplier Retail4. March 2024Kaufland honoured with Reta Award for innovation and sustainability in logistics. We are delighted that Kaufland Germany have been honoured with the prestigious Reta Award 2024 for innovation and sustainability in logistics for their outstanding work in automated order picking. At the 17th Reta Award ceremony Kaufland were honoured for the introduction of an automated order picking system (AKA) in their distribution centres, a project in which BSS Bohnenberg GmbH played a key role as a technology service provider. The award pays tribute to our joint efforts to increase efficiency and practicality in order picking, particularly for fruit and vegetables. The solutions we have developed enable largely fully automated picking of typical retail cartons and returnable crates, which not only reduces the workload of employees, but also significantly increases throughput and enhances the reliability and scalability of processes. We are proud to have been rewarded with the Top Supplier Retail award and congratulate the entire Kaufland team. [...]
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Flowpicker now suitable for use at up to minus 25 degrees Celsius22. February 2024Ideal for handling frozen products and perishable foods BSS Bohnenberg GmbH presents an update of the successful Flowpicker at the LogiMAT 2024. The fully automatic high-performance picking system can now also process frozen goods at a temperature of up to minus 25 degrees Celsius. The performance demonstrated suggests a range of applications in which speed, freshness and minimal spoilage are at the top of the list of requirements. As the perfect system for the food retail supply chain, Flowpicker achieves record-breaking throughputs of up to 12,000 transport containers per hour in both storage and retrieval. You can experience the Flowpicker live from March 19 to 21, 2024 at the BSS trade fair stand at LogiMAT Stuttgart in Hall 1 Stand 1C50. We look forward to seeing you! [...]
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30 years of BSS – We’re celebrating our anniversary!24. August 20222022 is a very special year for us: We are celebrating our 30th company anniversary! This year we’re taking a look back and showing how we’ve been making history since the early 1990s. On 1 January 1992, Harald Bohnenberg started with the newly founded BSS Bohnenberg GmbH. With just 6 employees, BSS was initially an independent system house for control technology for logistics systems. First scooped was the goods distribution centre for the Metro non-food division ‘Varena’ in Unna. With the founding of the computer technology sector a short time later, BSS rose to become a supplier of warehouse management systems. This was followed by the first BSS system with side shelf picking and double-deep storage. Following the wishes of many customers, BSS began early on not only to implement logistics systems, but also to plan them. The design of intelligent logistics solutions is still a core competence of our company. As a result, BSS received its first order as general planner and contractor in 1995. BSS took over complete conception of the system up to turnkey handover for the picking centre of the company Pelikan in Hanover. Today, 30 years later, BSS Bohnenberg GmbH has established itself as a well-known full-service provider for intralogistics, material flow concepts and construction. In the meantime, more than 150 colleagues work every day for our numerous customers and meet the increasingly demanding requirements. The company is led and managed by the directors Martin Gräb and Vasilios Dossis. We are proud of our achievements since 1992.What makes BSS special?This year we will again and again give you exciting insights into our projects and our everyday life. [...]
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A great representative of Straubingen’s mechanical engineering industry is quietly saying “FAREWELL”!14. July 2020Josef Moll handed over management of MOLL Automatisierung to his successors on 1 July 2020. As the new mayor of Leiblfing, he is going to focus on the welfare of his home municipality in future. Picture: Josef Moll, former company owner and managing director of MOLL Automatisierung Back in 1985, the year in which a certain Boris Becker was the first German to win the tennis tournament of Wimbledon at the age of only 17, another young man from Lower Bavarian Leiblfing was about to soar high as well. Josef Moll preferred a torque wrench to a tennis racket, however. With his competence in the craft, entrepreneurial courage, and unshakable self-confidence, he combined characteristics that were about perfect for building a company of his own. When he graduated from the master’s school in Passau as Bavaria’s youngest master mechanical engineer at the age of 20, he took over management of MOLL Maschinenbau in the early 1980s. At the time, the company had only four employees. MOLL was still developing and building agricultural machines at the time. It barely made ends meet. Young Josef Moll found that condition intolerable in the long run. In his first year as managing director, he therefore set all gears in motion in order to be listed as a supplier of conveyor facilities the operation previously only knew from catalogues. Looking back, that decision clearly was the most important one in his entire career, laying the basis for a new, successful, and much larger company. After the successful start as a supplier for the automotive industry and the growing entrepreneurial requirements due to this, Josef Moll brought in Franz Bayer as an experienced and competent business partner. The double management started driving the company’s development with outstanding success. Since MOLL quickly grew to exceed the dimensions of the old Eschlbach workshop by far, a production site with an operating area of about 36,000 sqm was built in the new industrial quarter of Leiblfing to keep up with the big players in the automotive supplier industry in terms of capacity as well. When moving into the new corporate site with 28 employees at the time, Moll had recognised that he would need to focus most strongly on services in the area of engineering in future in order to remain competitive in the long run. Based on this insight, he established an independent design department with Manfred Rüth, head of design at the time and later to become his co-manager. Now, the company was able to offer everything from design, to production and assembly, to commissioning from a single source as a general contractor. This was a quantum leap from an entrepreneurial perspective. The hard battle for the OEMs’ favour lasted many years. Eventually, Moll and Bayer acquired their first large order beyond the 10-million-DM threshold in 1996. It quickly became clear that MOLL would prevail in this trial by fire. With such a reference under its belt, the company was able to gradually establish itself as a key player of the automotive industry. It subsequently acquired globally operating OEMs such as Audi, Volkswagen, and Daimler as new customers. Larger order volumes also required more space, of course. Moll outgrew the production capacities of its new building in Leiblfing once again after just a few years. Subsequently, he had the company’s headquarters extended by building two halls (with a useful area of about 3,500 sqm) and expanded the design office (by approx. 250 sqm). After a decade and a half of constant growth, the founder suffered his first entrepreneurial setback in 2001, when a fire started by a technical defect burned the newly constructed second production hall almost down to its foundations. Thanks to the alertness and quick reaction of an employee, the remaining operating premises could be saved from the flames. After rebuilding and the subsequent expansion of the factory by production halls three and four (each with a useful area of about 2,000 sqm), the expansion course could continue unhindered, however, also on a global level. The first large order for the US market was the delivery of conveyor facilities for the BMW factory in Spartanburg/South Carolina in 2003. In the subsequent years, the MOLL staff grew to a headcount of 140, distributed among several sites, e.g. in Leiblfing, Sindelfingen, or Braunschweig. After MOLL Maschinenbau was sold to the Austrian group EK-Finn, Josef Moll watched from afar as “his” company fell into insolvency, not least as a consequence of the global economic crisis in 2009. As the manager of the newly founded engineering office MAT in Perkam, Moll maintained a close enough contact with the directors of ROFA Group at the time that they could eventually be convinced to purchase and integrate newly founded MOLL Automatisierung into their group of companies. The board of ROFA Group, under chairman Wolfgang Kozsar, had one condition for the purchase of MOLL, however: Josef Moll had to return as managing director. Together with Manfred Rüth, Moll faced new challenges in that function in order to bring his own former company back to an economically sound footing. Backed by the group parent ROFA and with great personal commitment, he contacted his old companions to help him return MOLL Automatisierung to calmer waters. His first three years as the new “old” managing director were so successful that another factory hall (with a useful area of approx. 2,500 sqm) had to be built to meet the rising demand to the production capacities. The Moll/Rüth duo eventually returned to the track of success for good in 2014. Since their return, they had been able to increase the company turnover by a magical fifty percent! After optimising structures and processes in the company, driving development of the IT infrastructure on the highest level, and ordering construction of another assembly hall, Josef Moll decided to pass his responsibility on into younger hands. After two years of managing the company together, he finally handed over the management to his successors Stefan Bauer and Thomas Wittmann on 1 July 2020. Josef Moll retiring? – Impossible! What is likely going to be his last big project is all about his home region: the Leiblfing municipality. Freshly elected as mayor there, he has a clear idea of his future creative and productive contributions, similar to the manner in which he built his company. He wants to make this vision come true in the years ahead. The chances for this are quite good. After all, he is known as someone who has always been true to his word! As managing director of MOLL Automatisierung, Josef Moll will be remembered as someone who… still knew all employees in person and always considered their private lives in everyday work gave every employee the feeling that they were an important part of his company spoke his mind and convinced others on technical and interpersonal levels always strove to maintain a balance between private life and work always considered social commitment essential places importance on values and traditions, in particular those of Bavaria was, all in all, a down-to-earth managing director throughout the time that he was responsible for the company, with great passion, empathy, and enthusiasm that is rare in these days! The entire staff at MOLL Automatisierung, including managing directors Stefan Bauer, Thomas Wittmann, and the board of directors of ROFA group, thank Josef Moll for his many wonderful years of cooperation, and for more than 250 secure jobs in the Straubing-Bogen district. Thank you, “Sepp”, and all the best for your future! [...]
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New Automated Guided Vehicle17. February 2020The innovation “Caesar PN-1.0 MYk” is a platform truck that has been specially designed to meet the needs of the automotive industry. The automated guided vehicle (FTF) is an upgrade of the “Caesar” series of MLR System, which are already used by well-known car manufacturers. The new platform truck dimensions are 1,700 mm × 900 mm × 280 mm and is transport loads up to 1,000 kg. For convenient loading, the flat vehicles are equipped with a lifting unit that can be jacked to 177 mm if required. The drive concept with two combined travel and steering axles allows unlimited mobility in all directions. According to the Ludwigsburg-based company, these are the best conditions for high flexibility with little space available.The automated “Caesar” platform truck travels at a speed of up to 1.5 m/s, has a modern energy concept and allows long running times with short loading cycles. Safety equipment such as personal security scanners, blue spots and 3D cameras for obstacle detection meet the highest standards for accident-free operation, also in interaction with people. Matching the design and colour scheme of its parent company ROFA, the new transport vehicle “Caesar PN-1.0 MYk” now comes in blue. [...]
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Progress through know-how13. February 2020Electric mobility, car sharing, autonomous driving: The automotive industry is currently undergoing a profound transformation. As a supplier of conveyor systems and special machinery, MOLL Automatisierung GmbH has recently been able to play a major role in the reconstruction of automobile plants. And the Leiblfing-based company also sees itself well prepared for the coming years. Image: Managing directors of MOLL Automatisierung GmbH (from left to right: Stefan Bauer, Josef Moll, Thomas Wittmann) The change has long been reflected in forecasts: by 2030, it is predicted, that every third new vehicle registered in Europe will be electrically powered, and in China it is even expected to be almost every second. Alternative mobility concepts such as car sharing are said to make up ten to 15 percent of total car sales by then. Technical advances in the field of autonomous driving will significantly change the design and functional equipment of vehicles over the next 15 to 20 years. For many automotive suppliers, this means drastic changes in their business models, combined with the risk of losing their place in the race between technologies and their various suppliers. MOLL Automatisierung, the Leiblfing-based supplier of conveyor systems and special machines, a member of the ROFA Group, has been able to adapt to this technological change in time. “We are currently in the privileged position of being involved in the reconstruction of automotive plants of all well-known OEMs. In 2019, this has brought us a total turnover of well over 100 million euros”, sums up Managing Director Josef Moll. In view of the increasing competition from China or Eastern Europe, we must keep an eye on the market, but there are still areas where the quality work of German engineers is in demand. In 2019, this has brought us a total turnover of well over 100 million euros”, sums up Managing Director Josef Moll. In view of the increasing competition from China or Eastern Europe, it is true that we must keep an eye on the market, but there are still areas where the quality work of German engineers is in demand. In particular, Moll sees problems in the area of simple conveyor technology: “It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with foreign competitors in terms of price. This means that our product portfolio must be adapted to the new situation. We need to invest more in special mechanical engineering and automation technology, because here in particular, engineering know-how and product quality still count more than the price itself”. Marriage stations – the assembly of body and chassis – is one of the driving forces of MOLL Automatisierung. In this business sector, projects in Germany, South Africa and Mexico generated a sales of over 30 million euros in 2019. “We delivered our first marriage in 2003 for BMW in Dingolfing. Since then, we have developed into one of the top 5 suppliers worldwide. Our goal is to expand our position in the coming years and become more or less independent of developments in drive technologies. Because one thing is certain: even an electric car consists of a body and a chassis” jokes Moll. Accordingly, the company is aggressively facing the current economic downturn in the automotive industry. Moll: “Many suppliers are currently struggling with order bottlenecks or short-time work. On the other hand, after the final expansion of our production facilities, we can concentrate on expanding our engineering and building up the necessary know-how in this way. We hope that this will give us a decisive advantage in the upcoming years”. [...]
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