70 years of Klumpp + Müller: The future is green and digital

Only medium-sized businesses can do this: proclaiming the future on their 70th anniversary! This is exactly what is currently happening at logistics expert Klumpp + Müller GmbH & Co. KG. With an anniversary celebration for business and network partners, the family-owned company simultaneously inaugurated its second crane at the company's own container terminal in the port of Kehl on April 27, 2023. However, it was not just an investment of around 10 million euros that was being celebrated. With the second crane at the company's own container terminal, the expansion of trimodal transport options, and increasing digitalization, Klumpp + Müller has further developed its logistics processes. Road, rail, and waterway can be combined at the Kehl site and supplemented by the use of electrically powered trucks on selected routes.

The 2nd terminal meets the 1st shuttle warehouse

Remarkable: The long-standing company is not proceeding step by step, but has decided to drive modernization and growth forward on all levels simultaneously. While some of the guests on the company tour were still listening to explanations of how new digital solutions make the logistics process 100% transparent for the customer at every second, others were amazed at how the new shuttle warehouse is currently being set up: 900 m² of storage space with 2,400 slots will now be managed by robots. And: On the guests' way from the site in Kehl's Weststraße to the one in Hafenstraße, the four new electrically powered trucks stood in formation.

The largest single investment in the company's history and its consequences

"With the largest single investment in the company's history and a new filling plant for bulk goods, we have ensured that around 15,000 tons of goods can be shifted from the road to alternative modes of transport," said Managing Director Michael Klumpp with visible pride. The capacity expansion and the first electric trucks will soon be followed by the completion of a 1,600 kilowatt peak photovoltaic system on the company roof. This measure will lead to the supply of power charging stations on the company premises, so that partners can also charge their electric vehicles. "Klumpp + Müller has the resources and the know-how to manage this change process so quickly and certainly successfully," said Alexander Münscher.

Dr. Michael Strickmann, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the majority shareholder "Lotte und Dieter Klumpp Stiftung," emphasized: "The future at the operational level is moving towards sustainability and digitalization. The future at the structural level began in 2012 with the establishment of the foundation, in order to consistently lead the values of the entrepreneurial family regarding society and the company itself into the future."