Honeywell is building a new research and development testing center in the Czech Republic for its Intelligrated warehouse automation business, the company said in a news release.
The 150,000-plus-square-foot facility will be constructed on the company campus in Brno, Czech Republic, and is expected to open during the middle of next year, the news release said. Over the next 18 months, the company will be recruiting technical specialists for the site.
"For businesses and consumers alike, expectations regarding e-commerce and logistics have changed rapidly, spurred on by the impact of COVID-19," Ben Cardwell, president of Honeywell Intelligrated, said in a statement. "This means a growing reliance on cutting-edge technologies that can automate and accelerate distribution centers, warehouses and other parts of the supply chain. The emerging technologies we are developing in Brno will help meet that demand head on."
It will be Honeywell's first site in Europe for testing and developing digitally enabled technologies for supply chains, which are used in conveyors, sortation systems, palletizers and robotics, automated storage and retrieval systems, warehouse software and voice- and light-directed picking technologies, the company said.
"Once fully operational, warehouse and logistics companies from across Europe will use the facility to test, prototype and train on Honeywell's technologies to help them maintain an advantage in what is an increasingly dynamic and competitive market," the news release said.
Helping to make all this possible, a manufacturing site opened this year in Chorzów, Poland, will assemble many of the systems created at Brno.
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