BLG LOGISTICS has been operating a supplier logistics center (LLZ) in Falkensee since January 2014, where it handles the majority of external warehouse processes for the SIEMENS-ENERGY Schaltwerk in Berlin. The location has now celebrated its 10th anniversary.
In the immediate vicinity of Berlin's largest industrial area, Siemensstadt, Falkensee has developed into an important hub for BLG LOGISTICS in the eastern region over the past ten years. Since the opening of the BLG Falkensee I site in January 2014, the workforce has grown from around 90 employees to 384. The company has thus become an important employer in the region. ‘Falkensee has developed into an important location for us in the eastern region. We are proud of the development that we have achieved here together with our employees and our customers over the last ten years. Our reliability, our innovative strength and our entrepreneurial courage have once again paid off,’ explains Matthias Magnor, Member of the Board of Management and COO of BLG LOGISTICS.
Headquartered in Bremen, the seaport and logistics service provider operates a total of eight locations in the eastern region. These range from Brandenburg an der Havel to Meerane. BLG primarily serves customers from the mobility, industrial and energy sectors in the eastern region. The fourth pillar in the region is logistics processing for various international automotive suppliers, starting with the import of customs goods including customs warehousing, technical quality checks (inspection, measurement), mechanical reworking and cleaning of materials, order picking and set formation through to shuttle transport to the plants.
Ten years of further development and a broad range of services
Following the opening of the Falkensee I site in 2014, which still provides complex services for high-voltage switchgear, the Falkensee II site was put into operation in May 2018. Falkensee II is used in particular to supply the production of the Berlin-Moabit gas turbine plant and its external site in Berlin-Siemensstadt. The spare parts business for gas turbines in Ludwigfelde followed in 2020. ‘The Falkensee site has developed very positively over the years: At the beginning of 2024, we rented an additional 12,000 m² of logistics and production space in the immediate vicinity of our existing locations,’ explains Holger Hanßen, Managing Director of BLG LOGISTICS in the CONTRACT Division. ‘We are also using this space for our customer Siemens Energy.’
The team in Falkensee looks back fondly on one particular project: ‘The highlight for Falkensee I was the e2L project, which was completed in October 2021. In collaboration with our customer, we optimised the existing inbound material supply process in order to cope with the high daily call-off volumes. The restructuring enabled us to save an entire warehouse level,’ says Michael John, Regional Manager East at BLG LOGISTICS in the CONTRACT division. As part of the e2L project, new narrow-aisle racking with semi-autonomous high-lift order pickers, two driverless transport systems and a dynamic AutoStore system with 70,000 containers and 20 robots were installed.
Open to new ideas
In addition to technological innovations, BLG LOGISTICS continues to focus on bold innovations and is committed to inclusion and diversity across the company. One notable example is a truck driver at the Falkensee site who has been deaf since birth and has taken on an important role in the team despite his disability. Although this colleague is now employed at a BLG site in another region, he remains a symbol of integration and teamwork at BLG. ‘This commitment to innovation, inclusion and diversity is a central component of our success. We are very satisfied with the development in Falkensee and are looking positively.
