Bosch: Fuel cells are stored very specifically in Bamberg

Bosch has opened a new integrated logistics center on the premises of Bayernhafen Bamberg. After an eleven-month construction period, Herbst Logistik GmbH, which realized the construction of the new building, handed over the logistics center to the automotive supplier, Bosch communicated on May 21. Before the new plant section 5 begins operations in June 2022, employees and family members as well as guests from politics and business celebrated the opening of the building on the same day.

With the construction of the new integrated logistics center, the manufacturing plant is responding, among other things, to an increasing need for space due to new products. This year, Bosch will start series production for the fuel cell drive in commercial vehicles. In 2024, the stationary fuel cell is scheduled to go into series production. The so-called stacks – the heart of the mobile and stationary fuel cell – are manufactured by the Bosch plant in Bamberg.

"Starting in June, Bosch Bamberg will supply its sister plants and customers around the world with materials and finished products," announced Bosch logistics manager Uwe Fischer.

The newly opened building complex encompasses around 10,000 square meters of hall space as well as office and social areas. By mid-2023, an additional hall with 7,000 square meters is to be completed.

The supply chains of the plant, both within the international Bosch manufacturing network and externally from the supplier to the customer, will be optimized from the Bamberg port in the future.