DHL opens Innovation Center in Rosemont
DHL officially opened its Innovation Center in Rosemont on Thursday - one of only three in the world where the global logistics firm will showcase its products and projects in development.
Company officials gathered to formally unveil the two-story, 28,000-square-foot building on the northeast corner of Higgins Road and Shafer Court, just east of the Tri-State Tollway.
The facility will showcase automated guided vehicles that can ferry goods through warehouses, mobile robots that can facilitate order fulfillment, and robots that can pick and pack.
DHL opened its first Innovation Center in 2007 near its headquarters in Bonn, Germany, followed by a second one in Singapore in 2015 to serve its Asia Pacific market. The Rosemont site will serve the company's North and South American clients. It's leasing the site from a partnership led by Janko Group and Braden Real Estate.