Pöttinger has invested heavily in its manufacturing plants in recent years to meet the requirements of an international market and increasing expectations in the agricultural technology sector. Rounding off this expansion phase is the construction of a new 7,000sq.m. spare parts facility on a 3ha-site at Taufkirchen an der Trattnach – close to the company’s Austrian headquarters at Grieskirchen. Called SparePartsWORLD, when completed sometime early 2017 it will be the new logistics hub for dispatching consignments worldwide. Featuring an automatic small parts warehouse as well as a mechanised pallet rack system with a total of around 50,000 original spares and wear parts, from the smallest gasket through to complete implement frames. Up to 800 customer orders will be processed every day and the facility expects to dispatch 3.5 million different items every year. “With this logistics centre we will be setting a new standard in terms of efficient and flexible spare parts supply to ensure we can provide our customers with an optimum supply of spare parts as quickly as possible,” say managing directors Heinz and Klaus Pöttinger.