Facts and Figures
DHL Parcel Center in Obertshausen
In Germany, Deutsche Post DHL Group operates 82 letter sorting centers, 33 parcel hubs and
two international mail centers. Now the company is establishing an even closer network and
commissioning Germany’s largest parcel center in Obertshausen. It is the first center with a
sorting capacity of 50,000 parcels per hour.
Address:
Gewerbegebiet Herbäcker, 63179 Obertshausen
Construction start date:
May 2013
Beginning of test phase:
January 2016
Operation’s official start:
15 June 2016
Total area of site:
About 150,000 square meters
Total area of building:
About 40,000 square meters. (Equivalent to the size of five
soccer fields and 1.6 times bigger than today’s parcel
centers.)
Length of building façade:
1.4 kilometers
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Deutsche Post DHL Group
Charles-de-Gaulle-Str. 20
53113 Bonn
Germany
Musterland
Phone
Fax
+49 228 182-9944
+49 228 182-9880
www.dpdhl.com
Email
[email protected]
Twitter twitter.com/DeutschePostDHL
Building design:
U-shaped, side length about 280 meters each, side width
56 meters each, building width 200 meters, depth of main
building 60 meters
Sorting capacity:
50,000 parcel shipments per hour
Loading gates:
More than 330
Number of jobs created:
About 600
Structural features:
- self-supporting roof structure spanning 56 meters
- a total of 62 concrete trusses, each 56 meters in length,
were used for the self-supporting roof structure
Technical features:
- more than 6 kilometers of sorting and conveyor lines
- more than 2,000 tons of steel were used for the structure
supporting the industrial equipment alone
- more than 400 sorting points
- fully automated bulk unloading of arriving parcel volumes
- own state-of-the-art, gas-fired combined heat and power
(CHP) plant with a thermal output of 363 kW and electrical
output of 228 kW to heat the hall and to generate electric
power
- Photovoltaic plant on the roof surface of the main building
with an output of 650 kWp (kilowatt peak)
- Use of particularly energy-efficient electric motors for the
sorting technology; use of an energy-efficient floor-heating
system as well as LED lighting technology.
- DGNB Certification in Gold for outstanding commitment to
meeting sustainability objectives in the construction of the
parcel center.
As of June 2016
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