This year will mark a turning point for the Targetti plant: the new logistics area will go into operation in June 2009 when we move the warehouse to the Campi Bisenzio industrial park.

The idea to build the company’s industrial complex dates back to nearly ten years ago, but the road was neither easy nor free of obstacles and bureaucratic complications. Then, work resumed at full speed in the spring of 2007: as of today, 80% of the prefabricated buildings are complete. All that remains to finish is the office building facing the highway, and that will be ready within the next few months.

The nerve center of the area is the warehouse: its 13 meter ceiling and 8,500 square meters of floor space were designed to guarantee maximum safety and comfortable working conditions for the staff.

Three hundred ceiling-mounted sprinklers and 36 smoke and heat exhausts on the roof comprise the sophisticated fire-prevention system.

The building is equipped with heating floors: 13 km of polypropylene piping that carries hot water were built into the floor placement to guarantee ideal temperature conditions without wasting heat and energy.

The fully automated pallet stacking system is a technological jewel. Designed in cooperation with TGW Italia, the leader in integrated logistic solutions, the system consists of four transfer-lifts that can move 8,200 pallets, a complex, Oracle-integrated software system and a 200 meter long conveyor belt to handle incoming and outgoing pallets.

Opposite the storage area there are four fixed pickup stations where operators, using the software, prepare, close and ship orders. This means that we have made the transition from the “people to goods” logic still used in the Via Pratese plant to a “goods to people” system.

Finally, 7 loading docks assure easy management and rapid movement of incoming and outgoing merchandise.