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

Only medium-sized companies can do that: proclaim the future on their 70th birthday! This is exactly what is happening right now 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 in the company’s own container terminal in the port of Kehl on April 27, 2023. However, it was not only an investment of around 10 million euros that was celebrated – the successful transformation of the company in the direction of sustainability and digitalization was also celebrated: “Klumpp + Müller is well on its way to becoming the sustainable trimodal hub at the Port of Kehl. In doing so, we also offer our customers and partners an ecological transport solution on that famous last mile,” explained Alexander Münscher to the approximately 200 guests from business, politics and society.

The 2nd terminal meets the 1st shuttle warehouse

Remarkable: The long-established company is not progressing step by step, but has decided to promote modernization and growth at all levels at the same time. While some of the guests on the company tour were still listening to the explanations of how new digital solutions are making the logistics process 100% transparent for the customer every second, others were amazed at how the new shuttle warehouse is currently being built: 900 m^{2 storage area with 2,400 parking spaces are now managed by robots. And: The four new electrically powered trucks then lined up as the guests made their way from the location on Kehler Weststrasse to the one on Hafenstrasse.}

Die größte Einzelinvestition der Firmengeschichte und ihre Folgen

“With the largest single investment in the company’s history and with a new filling facility for bulk goods, we have ensured that around 15,000 tons of goods can be shifted from the road to alternative modes of transport,” Managing Director Michael Klumpp was visibly proud. 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. A measure that will lead to the supply of Powercharge 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 and Dieter Klumpp Foundation”, emphasized: “The future on the operational level is heading towards sustainability and digitalization. The one on the structural level began in 2012 with the establishment of the foundation in order to lead the values of the entrepreneurial family in relation to society and to the company itself steadily into the future.”