Tag: Itella

Sirit RFID Reader Chosen for Postal Application in Finland

Posted by | May 22, 2008 | |

Sirit Inc. a provider of radio frequency identification (“RFID”) technology,
announced that the INfinity 510 (“IN510”) UHF reader was selected for
Finland’s postal delivery service RFID implementation. Readers have been
installed across the country as part of a system to monitor and quantify the
speed and accuracy of real-time postal deliveries.

Finn-ID, an auto-identification solutions provider in Finland,
developed and installed the application for the Mail Communications division
of Itella, a contract services company that manages postal deliveries in
Finland and throughout Europe. The implementation uses Sirit’s IN510 to read
Gen 2 RFID tags embedded in envelopes that are tracked throughout the entire
delivery process. Selected envelopes, which are not identifiable by postal
workers, contain an RFID tag with a unique number. As these envelopes travel
through the delivery and sorting process, the data relating to their movement
is collected and transmitted to a back-end system. The system then provides
analyses on mail routing, length of time to deliver an item and other
benchmarks relating to level of service.

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Itella to team up with IVANAhelsinki: Personal IVANAhelsinki patterns for Post Products

Posted by | May 13, 2008 | |

Itella Corporation and IVANAhelsinki have concluded a licence agreement giving Itella exclusive rights to use IVANAhelsinki designs in selected Post products and services, such as postcards and packaging materials and supplies. This agreement will enable Itella to develop a novel product family, based on the material licensed by IVANAhelsinki, while IVANAhelsinki will have the opportunity to sell its products through the post office network, at first in the Helsinki General Post Office. Itella made a similar licence agreement with Marimekko in 2007.
Consumers represent an important customer segment to whose changing needs Itella is seeking to respond. Itella is dedicated to providing its customers with opportunities to send greetings and other messages using both conventional and new methods. The product range based on IVANAhelsinki designs has the aim of encouraging Finns to send personal greetings to their nearest and dearest by post.
The personal and inspiring IVANAhelsinki patterns will be used, for instance, in the Post’s packaging materials and supplies as well as electronic consumer products, such as ePostcards and Mobile Postcards. The first prints included in the agreement will make their entry into the Post’s product range in early 2009.

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Syslore to deliver an address recognition system for Itella (FIN)

Posted by | May 12, 2008 | |

Itella Mail Communication and the Finnish software company Syslore Ltd. have signed a contract for the delivery of an address recognition and matching system for mail sorting and electronic message delivery services. By adopting the Syslore mCorrection Receiver Matching EngineTM (RME) fuzzy matching system, Itella will improve the address and receiver recognition quality in their hybrid and electronic message delivery service and increase the level of automation in their mail sorting process. The system will be deployed to all Itella address recognition processes by 2010 in Finland and abroad. The contract is worth over four million euros. “With this investment, we want to intensify and automate physical and electronic address recognition processes. Our goal is to ensure the profitability of the delivery business and to be able to provide quality delivery services for our business and consumer customers also in the future,” says Kari Kivikoski, Senior Vice President, Itella Mail Communication. http://www.syslore.com/

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Syslore to deliver an address recognition and matching solution for Itella

Posted by | May 5, 2008 | |

Itella Mail Communication and Syslore Ltd. have signed a contract for the delivery of an address recognition and matching system for mail sorting and electronic message delivery services.

By adopting the Syslore mCorrection Receiver Matching EngineTM (RME) fuzzy matching system, Itella will improve the address and receiver recognition quality in their hybrid and electronic message delivery service and increase the level of automation in their mail sorting process. mCorrection RME system incorporates new-generation computing algorithms that can recognise faulty, inaccurate and incorrect address and receiver data more effectively and more precisely than was possible before. The system will be deployed to all Itella address recognition processes by 2010 in Finland and abroad.

The system operates as a centralised solution, which receives real-time address queries over a network connection from several automatic mail sorting machines in different sorting centres. If, for example, the mail receiver name can be recognised, but the address data is incorrect or only partly recognised, the system can find the correct address data from the address database up to the mail delivery point. Apart from increasing the level of automation in mail sorting, the solution can decrease the number of mail delivered to incorrect addresses and monitor the quality of address recognitions and sorting process.

A centralised software solution can also remarkably improve the quality and throughput time of address and receiver recognition for Itella’s electronic and hybrid services. mCorrection RME incorporates open interfaces and language-independent algorithms that enable more efficient use of existing systems and postal data assets, and improve the quality of service.

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Itella to acquire a logistics group NLC in Russia

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

Itella will acquire National Logistic Company (NLC), the leading warehousing service provider in the Russian logistics market . The deal will reinforce Itella Logistics’ position as one of the leading logistics operators in Northern Europe and make it a one of the market leaders in the rapidly growing Russian logistics market. In future, Itella Logistics will provide logistics services throughout Russia via its extensive logistics centre network and transport connections. With a staff of 6,000, NLC’s net sales for 2008 will be around EUR 180 million. The completion of the acquisition is subject to the approval of the Russian competition authorities.
NLC is Russia’s leading warehousing service provider, and one of the few operators with a comprehensive logistics centre network, covering not only Moscow but also 6 other major cities in Russia. The firm is experiencing intensive growth: at the end of this year, it will have some 600,000 square metres of warehousing space, including 230,000 square metres in its own premises. In addition to warehousing, NLC’s services comprise transport and deliveries in Russia, complemented by Itella Logistics’ comprehensive global land, sea and air freight services.
Comprehensive warehouse logistics and transport network in Russia
The service portfolio and customer business lines of Itella Logistics and NLC are highly similar. NLC’s customer base comprises international manufacturers and retail chains of daily and special goods, pharmaceutical companies and Russian trade firms.

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