Linde MH: Revolutionizing Intralogistics with Sustainability and Automation
Key Ideas
- Linde Material Handling is shifting from a forklift manufacturer to a holistic intralogistics advisor, offering scalable solutions internationally.
- The company is focusing on automation, digitalization, and sustainability efforts, including AI integration with AGVs and creating a digital twin of warehouses.
- Linde is committed to carbon neutrality by 2050, with a 40% reduction target by 2030, actively working on reducing emissions and decarbonizing its operations.
- While hydrogen fuel cells are not yet mainstream due to high infrastructure costs, Linde is prepared for future adoption as all new forklifts are fuel-cell compatible.
At LogiMAT 2025, Linde MH showcased its transition from a forklift manufacturer to a strategic intralogistics partner, emphasizing the evolving role of forklifts in a smart and automated world. The company's senior leaders, Ulrike Just and Torsten Rochelmeyer, discussed how Linde is assisting customers in optimizing logistics processes, embracing digitalization, and steering towards automation solutions. Linde's focus has shifted towards providing holistic intralogistics advisory services, leveraging its global footprint to offer integrated solutions across borders.
The company is heavily investing in automation, energy solutions, and digitalization, partnering with Nvidia and Accenture to enhance AI integration for AGVs and creating digital twins of warehouses for simulation and optimization. Linde's sustainability efforts encompass helping customers reduce emissions and decarbonizing its own operations, with a commitment to carbon neutrality by 2050.
While hydrogen fuel cells present an intriguing alternative, they are not widely adopted due to high infrastructure costs. However, Linde is future-ready with fuel-cell compatible forklifts and remains prepared for broader adoption in the future. The article also touches on the changing landscape of forklifts, with a vision for smarter, more efficient forklifts in the future that may involve operators monitoring rather than physically operating the vehicles.
Linde's digital advancements include the myLinde customer portal, offering a central cloud platform for tracking safety, energy, and usage data, enabling optimization paths like smarter routing and predictive maintenance. Despite the challenges, Linde MH's strategic shift towards sustainability, automation, and digitalization positions it as a key player in the evolving intralogistics landscape.
Topics
Fuel Cells
Sustainability
Decarbonisation
Automation
Digital Twin
AI Integration
Warehousing
Intralogistics
Latest News