The company has associate companies in more than 20 European countries and has five modern production facilities. It was founded in 1976 and currently employs more than 600 staff in Europe.

In order to increase the performance of the animal feed production store in Loiching, Sano has placed an order with viastore to replace a third-party company's warehouse management system with viad@tWMS and to modernize the pallet storage/retrieval machines. The high-bay warehouse is a two-aisle channel storage system with shuttle cars (Aisle 1: right-hand side five-deep, left-hand side three-deep, Aisle 2 four-deep). viastore will be supplying viad@tWMS 7.2 with integral material flow system including channel store management and route and load planning. As well as the automatic high-bay ware house,the logistics department has a manual picking store which is also reproduced in viad@t.