Posted by Daniel Gleeson on sixth June 2024
Metso has opened a brand new state-of-the-art distribution centre in Vina del Mar, Chile, to, it says, additional enhance its supply efficiency and customer support.
The brand new centre will exchange the unit that served the world. The trendy centre will significantly improve Metso’s functionality to ship tools, spare and put on elements and elements, and can additional strengthen the distribution and logistics community in Chile. The inauguration ceremony was held on June 6, 2024.
Eduardo Nilo, President, South America market space, Metso, mentioned: “Our purpose is to repeatedly enhance buyer satisfaction in all our actions and meet our prospects’ expectations by offering market-leading options. Our goal is to supply on-time supply and elevated service availability to make sure environment friendly and sustainable buyer operations. The brand new distribution centre has a considerably bigger storage capability than our earlier warehouse and it’ll strengthen the provision of crucial spare and put on elements near our prospects in Chile and different international locations in South America.”
The distribution centre is an instance of how Metso can assist the mining business in transferring in the direction of essentially the most superior and sustainable practices, the OEM says. The power operates totally on renewable power and makes use of sustainable packaging options, together with returnable packaging and lighter plywood alternate options. Moreover, fully-electric autos and equipment complement this facility.
The distribution centre is positioned near Metso operations in Concón, the place the corporate has a contemporary rubber and Poly-Met manufacturing unit and the just lately inaugurated, distinctive circularity recycling resolution for Megaliner™, Poly-Met™ and rubber liners.
Sami Takaluoma, President, Providers enterprise space, Metso, added: “The brand new distribution centre is Metso’s newest strategic funding for an essential buyer market and a concrete step in the direction of our strategic goal to develop into the popular service supplier in our business. Our put in base in Chile and all through South America is powerful and the trendy centre will strengthen our competitiveness as a supplier of long-term service contracts.”
The brand new centre is operated by an exterior vendor, offering warehousing and environment friendly distributor assist for Metso and its prospects within the area.
Markku Eronen, Senior Vice President, International Logistics Operations, Metso, mentioned: “An environment friendly and optimised distribution centre community will improve availability, enhance customer support and reduce CO2 emissions. We’ve distribution centres all over the world, positioned near prospects utilising environment friendly and sustainable logistics routes. Our distribution centre technique is predicated on utilising robust companions who’ve recognised world capabilities in offering aggressive warehouse providers. Their experience allows us to additional develop our customer support with most optimised reliability, security and operative transparency.”
