FORKLIFT TRUCKS
ORDER PICKING
TOSCA TAKES ON NEW LEASE WITH ONWARD HOLDINGS
WAREHOUSING, HANDLING & STORAGE BARCODING LABELLING & PACKAGING
BOMI GROUP, A UPS COMPANY, OPENS ONE OF THE LARGEST WAREHOUSES IN THE EUROPEAN PHARMA SECTOR
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omi Group, a UPS company, today officially opened its new storage and distribution facility in Madrid following an 18-million-euro investment. This new GMP and GDP-compliant logistics centre will cover an area of 27,578m² and have the capacity to hold 60,000 pallets, making it one of the largest warehouses in the European pharmaceutical sector and creating 150 highly skilled jobs.
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eusable packaging specialist Tosca has finalised a new 10-year lease from Onward Holdings Ltd, doubling the company’s warehousing capacity at the Yorkshire site. The deal combines two 30,000sqft units on the Green Lane Industrial Park in Featherstone.
Tosca, a global leader in reusable plastic packaging and performance pooling solutions with a portfolio including crates, pallets, bulk containers, and more, acquired a warehouse at the location around eight years ago shortly after the facility was built. Tosca acted quickly when the unit next door became available as it coincided with the business’s expansion strategy for the region. Onward Holdings’ continuing investment in sites in Yorkshire for commercial property development has sustained economic activity in the area. Featherstone is a sought-after supply chain location only a short distance from the major motorway infrastructure of the M62, M1 and A1M and is within easy reach of the northern container ports.
The industrial estate benefits from excellent distribution connections and is also close to the railway freight network via the nearby Wakefield Europort. According to Onward Holdings around 80% of the UK’s population is accessible in four hours, making the site ideal for bulk distribution items. Steve Raybould, Tosca’s Operations
Director UK & Ireland, says: “The signing of a new and extended lease with Onward at the Featherstone site builds on our existing relationship with Onward and makes an important commitment to support our UK business for the long term, with the enlarged footprint giving us additional capacity in this important geographic area.” Onward director, Neil Storey, added: “Tosca is a long-standing client and has been operating out of Featherstone for many years. They had first bite of the cherry when next door became available and agreed a new lease on the whole site.”
Along with logistics facilities for storage and distributing across Yorkshire, Onward Holdings also supplies value-added services, including 3PL managed warehousing, Pallet Storage, Container Emptying, Order Picking and Reworking – all controlled by its Managed Warehouse System. Suitable for both durable cargo and ambient food storage, long and short-term leases are available. Operating high quality industrial warehousing, Onward Holdings’ sites include Castleford, Doncaster, Ackworth and Scunthorpe. The company also built Onyx Retail Park, the successful shopping and eating destination on the former Manvers colliery in South Yorkshire.
Tosca
www.toscaltd.com
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Innovations in biologics, specialty pharmaceuticals and personalized medicine mean that 80% of pharma products in Europe now require temperature-controlled transportation. The Madrid facility will meet this expanding need with various temperature- controlled storage solutions (-30 °C, +2+8 °C, +15+25 °C) and houses a state-of-the-art automated order-picking system with an expected error rate of less than 0.02%. It is built to BREEAM certificates and is designed to the highest standards of sustainable operation. “Our customers are in some of the fastest growing healthcare markets in the world, and their next-generation products require near- perfect service”, said Jordi Cusidó, Iberia Country Manager, Bomi Group. “By providing end-to-end visibility of location and temperature, we can ensure patient-critical products are delivered where they need to be, at the right time, and the right temperature.”
Strategically located close to Madrid airport with road links to Barcelona and metropolitan Madrid, the new centre will be Bomi Group’s largest in Spain. It will join the seven centres already in the country, including one near Madrid, four in Catalonia and two in the Canary Islands, which supports Spain’s growing pharma industry and UPS Healthcare’s global network. The centre will also enable faster shipping and distribution to provide greater flexibility for customers, in addition to a Hospital & Pharmacy Distribution service.
Bomi Group was acquired by UPS in 2022, with CEO Marco Ruini joining the UPS Healthcare leadership team. UPS Healthcare customers have access to 217 facilities with over 1.5 million square metres of cGMP and GDP-compliant healthcare distribution space in 37 countries and territories.
Bomi Group
www.bomigroup.com
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