SKF Signs Contract to Operate Warehouse and Distribution for Metso Lindemann

SKF has signed a five-year contract with Metso Lindemann to operate the company’s global wear and spare parts warehouse and distribution.

SKF will supply Metso Lindemann’s customers from a central distribution center in Tongeren, Belgium. The implementation will require about 1,500 square-meter indoor storage capacity and another 3,000 square meters of outside storage. The contract will be effective as of July this year.

Services include inbound operations, warehousing, value added services, customer service activities and outbound operations for spare and wear parts to destinations worldwide. In this facility nearly 2,000 product references will be received from the Metso Lindemann factory in Dusseldorf as well as from external suppliers.

“For us the logistics partner SKF is an ideal complement to our logistics system. SKF offers us the opportunity to meet our customers’ demand quicker and more effectively. We will now be able to react directly upon the needs of our customers and to the changes of the market situation, says Bernhard Kock, Vice President Services at Metso Lindemann, Dusseldorf.

Prior to this agreement SKF Logistics Services has already been supplying Metso Mining & Construction Technology with integrated logistics solutions.