Over all five days of CeMAT, exhibitors presented a stunning range of innovations. Ongoing automation in the stock-picking sector, enhanced integration of logistics system modules and the growing importance of environment and safety issues were the key trends showcased this year. The spotlight is now on energy efficiency for forklift manufacturers and materials handling system suppliers. The key requirements for intralogistics solutions in the future will be to offer a high degree of flexibility and environmental friendliness, and manufacturers were already presenting alternative, energy-saving drive technologies at this year's show.

Robots are taking over more and more functions in intralogistics. They can now take perform loading and unloading as well as palletizing and depalletizing functions, and were among the highlights at CeMAT 2008.