ULMA Handling Systems
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Company type | Cooperative |
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Industry | Material Handling |
Founded | 1988 |
Headquarters | Oñati, |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Juan Jesús Alberdi (Managing director) |
Subsidiaries | Spain, France, Netherlands, Brazil, Peru and Chile |
Website | www.ulmahandling.com |


ULMA Handling Systems is a material handling and logistics automation company, supplier of automated storage and retrieval systems, based in Oñati, Spain. The company engineers design, taking into account requirement, produce, and install material handling solutions in different types of installations, from small warehouses to complex systems.
Corporate information
ULMA Handling Systems has operational subsidiaries in different countries in Europe and Americas:[1]
- ULMA Handling Systems Polinyà (Barcelona), Spain
- ULMA Handling Systems Aldaia (Valencia), Spain
- ULMA Handling Systems Serris, France
- ULMA Handling Systems Arnhem, Netherlands
- ULMA Handling Systems São Paulo, Brazil
- ULMA Handling Systems Lima, Perú
- ULMA Handling Systems Las Condes (Santiago), Chile
History
ULMA Handling Systems is one of the 8 companies which make up ULMA cooperative group, which dates back to 1957 when six young mechanics set up a small workshop in Oñati (Guipúzcoa). In 1988 was founded ULMA Handling Systems, after a technology transfer agreement was signed with the Japanese company DAIFUKU [2] for the sale and introduction of automatic material handling.
The first facilities were developed and the company started to increase their customer portfolio. In 1997, the company broke into overseas markets installing warehouses in Brazil, France and Italy and nowadays has subsidiaries in Spain, France, Netherlands, Brazil, Chile and Peru.
Products and services
The company designs material handling solutions,[3] such us order picking solutions, automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS), conveyor and automated guided vehicles, automated sorting solutions and end of line solutions. ULMA Handling Systems offers from logistics consulting, planning, design to after sales service.[4]
In addition, the company provides warehouse management software which guarantees the optimization and optimum control of all the movements of the goods that are located into the warehouse. ULMA Handling systems also offers baggage handling solutions, designing and developing integral solutions and health logistics solutions.
References
- ^ "ULMA Handling Systems subsidiaries". Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ "DAIFUKU Logistic Solutions". Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ "Logistics Solutions". Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ "Services of ULMA Handling Systems". Retrieved 4 July 2016.