Sarasota manufacturer opens automated warehouse in Italy

The 22,600-square-foot warehouse is expected to increase efficiency for the Sarasota-based company.

By Business Observer Staff
| 2:00 p.m. February 27, 2023
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The building took nine months to construct.

Manatee-Sarasota

The robots are coming.

At least they are in Italy: Sarasota-based Helios Technologies Inc. recently opened a new automated warehouse in Italy that can service up to 190 pallets an hour.

The newly constructed warehouse is in Faster S.r.l., an Italian hydraulic components producer that became part of Helios in 2018. The publicly traded company, with $861.9 million in revenue in 2021, is an engineered motion control and electronic controls technology company.