The need for advanced logistics facilities is increasing in line with the expansion of e-commerce. The Company entered the logistics facility development business in 2017. Leveraging the track record and know-how related to comprehensive real estate development cultivated so far, we will continue meeting society’s need for more efficient logistics. In addition, we are working to develop cold chain logistics centers, smart logistics centers that utilize local 5G, and next-generation logistics centers directly connected to highway interchanges and adapted to new logistics systems, such as trunk line transportation using self-driving trucks.
INFRASTRUCTURE & INDUSTRY
Logistics Facilities
About the logistics facility business "LOGI'Q"
LOGI'Q is our brand of logistics facilities based around our desire to ensure that TOKYU LAND CORPORATION logistics support social development. LOGI'Q aims to create valuable social infrastructure for all people, businesses, communities, and the broader society involved with our facilities.
LOGI'Q Minamiibaraki, the largest flagship property in the LOGI'Q series
This property is located in the Hokusetsu area, which is highly efficient for distribution in the Kansai region. It also has good access to a highway interchange and is just a 9-minute walk to the closest station, Senrioka Station, which should help with employee recruitment.
Thanks in part to installing the ReENE LOGI'Q Minamiibaraki Solar Power Plant on the roof, introducing various kinds of power-saving equipment, and using an eco-friendly design, this is the first property in the LOGI’Q series that has earned the highest evaluation in several environmental certifications with an S rank from CASBEE, five stars from BELS, and ZEB.
The building comes with a wide range of shared amenities, such as two types of cafeterias as well as shops, shower rooms, prayer rooms, and all-gender bathrooms. Signs inside the building use pictograms so that people are not entirely dependent on reading words as we adapt to the diversification of tenant employees. In addition, sustainable art and construction materials are used throughout the building, contributing to the SDGs and demonstrating environmental awareness.
In some blocks, we have set up industrial air conditioning and meet a wide range of needs (including future-proofing) with single-level warehouses, cold storage warehouses, small-lot hazardous materials warehouses, and warehouses outfitted with local 5G.
Freezing and Refrigeration Business
We have made a full-scale entry into the business of developing and investing in cold storage warehouses as demand is expected to rise.
There is high degree of compatibility between the renewable energy business the Company is focused on and facilities that require large amounts of power, such as cold storage warehouses. The Company is considering supplying renewable energy it generates to the facilities.
Nishiyodogawa Cold Center
Completion: April 2025
(Tentative name) CBRE IM-LOGI'Q Shinkoyasu
Completion: 2027 (planned)
Shifting to green electricity
ReENE Green Energy delivers 100% renewable electricity to logistics facilities
We provide environmental load reduction services for LOGI'Q tenant companies and their consignors via ReENE Green Energy, which is generated from 100% renewable sources. We install solar panels on the roofs of logistics facilities, supplying the generated renewable energy to facilities via onsite power purchase agreements (PPA). The Company utilizes the environmental value produced by the renewable energy power plants it operates across Japan to realize a 100% shift to renewable energy used in its facilities. We are also working to achieve several certifications and accreditations, including CASBEE *¹, BELS *², and ZEB *³. Utilizing this environment, we will further advance our initiatives, such as services that can provide 100% renewable electricity value to our tenants and consignors.
*1CASBEE (Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency): A method developed by the Institute for Built Environment and Carbon Neutral for SDGs (IBECs) under the guidance of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), to evaluate and grade the overall environmental performance of buildings. The system is designed to comprehensively evaluate the quality of buildings, including not only environmental considerations such as energy efficiency and use of materials and equipment with low environmental impact, but also the comfort of the indoor environment and townscape considerations.
*2BELS (Building-Housing Energy-efficiency Labeling System): BELS: A system established by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) based on the Evaluation Guidelines for Labeling of Energy Efficiency in Non-residential Buildings (2013) with the aim of ensuring that third-party organizations properly evaluate and l the energy efficiency performance of buildings.
*3ZEB (Net Zero Energy Building): buildings that aim to achieve an annual primary energy consumption balance of net zero by maximizing energy independence by employing advanced technologies to substantially reduce energy consumption, and by adopting renewable energy sources.
Employing smart technology in logistics facilities
Local 5G Implementation R&D Zone
Phoxter has conducted pilot tests of automatically controlled transportation robots using local 5G. This has enabled them to offer leading-edge warehouse rationalization to achieve the real-time visualization of operations.
Expected effects of using local 5G
Prevents theft and other issues
Enhances overall efficiency by analyzing people’s movements
Enhances overall efficiency by analyzing people’s movements
Local 5G compatible transport robot
Phoxter R&D Center Minamiibaraki
W-401 R&D Section
We are building a show room using the latest material handling techniques to realize next-generation logistics centers.
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Acquiring three-side information using an incoming inspection and image processing system
We conduct incoming inspections with a barcode reader. For unregistered products, three-side information is measured using Phoxter’s image processing controller StellaController 2.0.
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Putting into storage/retrieval using ACR/MiniAGV
MiniAGV transports buckets to the lowest level of the elevated racks, then ACR puts them into storage. During retrieval, ACR places the selected bucket on the lowest level, then MiniAGV transports it to the picking area.
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Robot Picking
The selected product is confirmed by camera, grasped by a piece picking robot, and inserted into a 3D sorter.
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Sorting using a 3D sorter
The products inserted by the piece picking robot are separated by the RGV inside the 3D sorter based on customer, store, direction, or other factors.
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AMR Transport
Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) transport medium-volume racks containing buckets (separated by customer, store, direction, or other factors) to the packaging area.
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Automatic Sealing Machine
In the packaging area, products are sealed in cardboard boxes by automatic sealing machines and transported by conveyor to the palletizing area.
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Robotic Palletizing
Cardboard boxes are loaded on pallets by palletizing robots that don’t require instruction.
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Shipment inspections using an AMR transport and image processing system
The pallets loaded with cardboard boxes are transported by AMRs before shipment inspections are conducted using Phoxter’s image processing controller StellaController 2.0.
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Automatic Forklift
Inspected shipments deposited by AMRs are picked up by automatic forklifts and temporarily stored in nesteners within the loading bay.
