Highlights of the
2024 financial year
Digital transformation
Digital transformation realized with SAP S/4HANA implementation
In February, 35 legal entities across more than 20 countries and 6 continents were successfully integrated into SAP S/4HANA in a single day. This "big bang" implementation is marking a significant milestone in our digital transformation journey. Digital transformation is central to our long-term growth strategy, with SAP S/4HANA playing a pivotal role in managing and analyzing the increasing volume of critical operational data and driving efficiency, innovation, and enhanced service delivery globally. By early 2025, an additional two legal entities went live on SAP S/4HANA, bringing the total to 37.
Interroll & Viastore for Homag: a successful partnership
Automated material flow is becoming increasingly important in manufacturing logistics. In collaboration with Viastore, Interroll provided advanced conveying technology to help HOMAG, a leader in wood-working production solutions, modernize its logistics infrastructure. This partnership enabled HOMAG to benefit from a seamlessly designed, implemented, and optimized solution.
Driving innovation and service
Interroll & Innovation: The new MXVs Small Wheel Vertical Crossbelt Sorter
The booming rise of e-commerce, rapid urbanization, and growing prosperity in emerging markets are fueling a global surge in demand for smarter, faster goods transportation and sorting. Add to this the labor shortage in industrialized nations, and the call for advanced automation in logistics has never been louder. We launched a game-changing innovation: the MXVs – Small Wheel Vertical Crossbelt Sorter. With a sleek, compact height of just 1,400 mm, this cutting-edge solution is designed to maximize space while ensuring seamless efficiency. Perfect for last-mile delivery, it is our answer to navigating tight spaces and flat destinations with precision.
Interroll Lifetime Service: retrofitting programs in US and EMEA
Interroll launched a belt curve retrofit program in the US, and several sorter retrofits were completed in EMEA. These upgrades extend equipment life, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact, offering a cost-effective alternative to replacement while minimizing downtime.
Expanding our footprint
Enhancing our local presence in India
Interroll Group finalized the acquisition of Interroll India Pvt. Ltd. in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India in September 2024. Interroll India Pvt. Ltd. acted for more than 10 years as independent agent of the Interroll Group. This acquisition underlines our commitment to India’s growing economy and aligns with our strategy to expand in key emerging markets. By integrating their operations, we enhance our local presence and ability to deliver greater value to customers in this vital region.
Purolator and Interroll Canada partner on Metro West Transportation Hub
Purolator, a leading Canadian courier and logistics company, excels in parcel delivery, freight services, and supply chain solutions, with a strong presence across Canada. Under the leadership of Sean Gravelle and Gord Hardie from Interroll Canada, a partnership with Purolator has led to significant opportunities, including the Metro West Transportation Hub project in Greater Toronto, supported by Shape Process Automation as the system integrator. This project serves as a model for Purolator’s ongoing network upgrades.
Building partnerships
Interroll & Ocado: partnership stronger than ever
Ocado, a leader in online grocery operations, has renewed its trust in Interroll. Our ability to align with Ocado’s requirements, emphasizing on seamless, simple, fast and modular solutions, highlights our shared commitment to deliver innovative and customer-focused solutions. During our collaboration, we highlighted our strategic approach to developing and manufacturing superior products while continuing to invest in electronics and software that simplify our customers’ operations. Ocado recognized the value of Interroll’s enhanced global footprint, enabled by our strategic decision to split our sales team into product and project sales for better focus and proximity to our customers, strengthening business partnerships.
Installation of belt curves in major APAC airports
Interroll was able to win various projects for delivering belt curves for airports in China and Southeast Asia. New airports include the ones in Taiwan, China (Guangzhou) and Vietnam: they are now relying on the high quality and robustness of our proven Belt Curve.