Pune, India: Vanderlande, a global leader in logistics process automation, has opened its India Innovation Centre (IIC) in Pune, a collaboration-led facility that reflects the company’s guiding principle of keeping customers at the heart and innovation as the heartbeat driving progress. Designed as a space where engineers can co-create, test and innovate end-to-end solutions, the Centre will drive engineering and innovations covering areas such as robotic automation, autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and digital-physical integration across Vanderlande’s global customer base in warehousing, airports and parcel domains.
The launch of the IIC marks an important milestone in Vanderlande India’s journey as a Global Capability Centre (GCC). With this addition, the GCC further strengthens its position as Vanderlande’s second-largest technology hub worldwide, after the Netherlands. The Centre underscores Vanderlande’s long-term commitment to nurturing talent, expanding high value engineering roles and accelerating innovation from India.
Located in Pune and spread across two acres, the India Innovation Centre is designed to bring together global collaboration, research and development, and system testing under one environment. It integrates training, testing and end-to-end ownership of Vanderlande’s market-leading systems enabling teams to work more closely on the full engineering lifecycle. The environment empowers current and future employees to work on real-world applications, deepen their technical expertise, and contribute directly to the automation journeys of customers worldwide.
Astrid van Druten, Chief Financial Officer, Vanderlande, said:
“The India Innovation Centre underscores our confidence in India’s expanding role to Vanderlande’s technology journey. For our customers, automation is no longer optional – it is essential. Our Innovation Centres are pivotal in creating smarter, more efficient solutions, guided by our core values like Every Day Better focused on continuous improvement and innovation. As our second-largest technology hub, India will further strengthen our global innovation ecosystem through this new centre.”
Manish Patil, Managing Director, Vanderlande India, added:
“The inauguration of our new India Innovation Centre marks an important milestone that reflects Vanderlande’s confidence and continued investments in Vanderlande India. The centre embodies our ambition to support innovation, build global capabilities, and make a positive impact on Vanderlande’s worldwide operations.”
Over the years, Vanderlande India has grown from a small support office into a 1,300+ member Global Capability Centre. The organisation today spans R&D, software development, core engineering disciplines and shared services. The inauguration of the India Innovation Centre represents the next phase of this evolution moving from execution to innovation and further advancing the company’s “Everyday Better” journey.
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