With over 20 years of experience, DFT units the benchmark for environment friendly sorting and clever adapter know-how
Dürkopp Fördertechnik GmbH (DFT), a specialist in automated overhead conveyor and sorting programs and a part of the KNAPP Group since 2010, has reached a major milestone this yr: the one hundredth adapter system has been efficiently put in at Modexpress within the Netherlands. This achievement underscores DFT’s main position as a long-standing and dependable answer supplier in overhead conveyor know-how for the style, retail, pharma, e-commerce, and postal & parcel industries.
EcoPocket®-System at Modexpress: Multi-Shopper- and Multi-Channel-Resolution
The adapter system put in at Modexpress combines a multi-client and multi-channel answer in a single system. On the coronary heart of the sorting course of, the EcoPocket® system permits environment friendly dealing with of all kinds of things from totally different intralogistics prospects – from vogue to e-commerce. Modexpress depends on an clever transport preparation idea that helps each retailer replenishment and direct-to-consumer supply. This permits B2B and B2C orders to be processed effectively inside the identical system. With excessive throughput, built-in inspection programs, and real-time analytics, this answer presents most course of safety and scalability.
“I didn’t know we had been the one hundredth system, nevertheless it mainly exhibits that we employed a really skilled firm since they’ve executed this many many instances earlier than,” says Jan van Vlokhoven, CIO and Co-owner of Modexpress, “The collaboration was there from the start. In three phrases I might say: strong, punctual {and professional}.”
20 Years and 100 Adapter Techniques within the Market
The success story of DFT started 20 years in the past with the set up of the primary adapter system – a milestone that laid the inspiration for a brand new period in overhead conveyor know-how. Since then, DFT has constantly developed and perfected sorting processes in intralogistics. With the EcoPocket® and AutoPocket® pocket sorter programs as extensions of the adapter system, new choices emerged for sorting a much wider product vary.
“We measure success by glad prospects. That’s why we keep shut and persistently develop our programs functionally – precisely the place it issues in on a regular basis operations. The one hundredth adapter system is the very best instance: our know-how has confirmed itself a whole lot of instances in follow. Our prospects can depend on that,” explains Dirk Bockelmann, CEO and Managing Director of DFT.
With over twenty years of expertise, confirmed know-how, and shut collaboration with various prospects, DFT is now a pacesetter in clever sorting and sequencing of complicated items flows by overhead conveyor know-how. The one hundredth adapter system not solely marks an anniversary but additionally confirms the corporate’s progressive energy and dedication to environment friendly, scalable options worldwide.
DFT in Numbers – Belief that delivers
- Over 20 years of expertise in overhead conveyor know-how
- Greater than 30 million merchandise sorted worldwide per day
- 15 million adapters in operation
- 9 million pockets for exact sorting in adapter programs
- 2000 km of conveyor monitor put in
World Presence and Development
Due to a powerful buyer focus and steady innovation, DFT is at present a trusted companion for internationally main manufacturers and intralogistics firms. The corporate delivers not solely know-how but additionally expertise – confirmed in over 340 distribution facilities worldwide.
Even after putting in the one hundredth adapter system, DFT continues to concentrate on progress by technological innovation. New options, modular expansions, and clever software program options will supply prospects much more versatile choices to design their logistics processes effectively and reply to dynamic market calls for.

