COLUMAT NEWS

The City Council launches smart lockers now fully operational for local shops and residents, providing an autonomous pickup system that modernizes local commerce with a convenient, secure and accessible service.

Cerdanyola’s smart locker lets merchants log orders, place them in the locker with a personal code, and send customers a QR or code to pick up their purchase at any time.

Cerdanyola City Council introduces new smart lockers by the town hall that let customers pick up market and local shop purchases 24/7 with QR codes, extending an already successful service.

The Mercat Puigmercadal in Manresa is expanding customer services to make order pickup and handling easier, modernizing the shopping experience at the market.

The municipal market from Masnou launches refrigerated lockers that let customers securely store and preserve fresh purchases with flexible pick-up times.

The town of Xinzo de Limia installs smart lockers with QR access so customers can pick up and return local shop orders outside regular business hours.

The market installs 29 lockers with varied temperature zones where customers can drop off and pick up purchases with a QR or numeric code until 6 p.m., enhancing flexibility and convenience.

Dénia’s City Council installs 29 refrigerated lockers with varied temperature zones at the Municipal Market so customers can drop off and pick up fresh product purchases conveniently and flexibly until 6 p.m., enhancing the shopping experience and adapting to customer schedules.

In 2019, Albert Bladas and Georgina Coll founded Columat with the purpose of offering smart lockers that speed up the collection of products

Columat is the only company in southern Europe that manufactures refrigerated cabinets for the shipment and collection of fresh products

Columat presents itself as the most complete solution in the online lockers market, as in addition to allowing deliveries from any store or e-commerce, it is the only one that has a management platform for tracking in its Smart Lockers of data and usability of the lockers.

Barcelona-based Columat, which started as a startup in 2019, has consolidated its offer mainly in the retail, real estate and logistics sectors, with nearly 600 installations under way.

The smart lockers of the company optimize logistics processes by 37% and reduce the environmental impact by 25%, according to a Leitat report

Albert and Georgina's company has optimized its logistics processes by 37% and reduced its environmental impact by 25%

The emerging company Columat, which offers a shopping collection service through smart lockers, exceeded 1.5 million euros in business volume in 2023, a figure that it plans to double this year. The company, created in 2019 by Georgina Coll and Albert Bladas, expects to invoice more than 3 million euros this year and continue its international expansion in markets such as Italy and the United Kingdom, among others.

Its solution has been successful in areas such as municipal markets and neighborhood communities

Smart lockers: revolution in logistics and electronic commerce. Smart lockers, also known as "smart lockers", are revolutionizing the way in which products are delivered, collected and returned. These automated and digitized solutions offer comfort and flexibility to users, while optimizing the logistics processes for companies.

Barcelona-based start-up Columat is popularising the use of smart lockers across retail stores, municipal markets, pharmacies, offices, supermarkets and residential communities.

Startups aligned with pandemic-accelerated trends —including e-commerce and business digitalisation— are gaining momentum amid ongoing restrictions.

Barcelona-based start-up Columat, a participant in the Lanzadera startup accelerator, anticipates strong growth in its smart locker solutions.

With an established presence across several key Spanish regions, Columat is preparing a funding round next year to accelerate investment in talent and technology, while scaling its intelligent systems internationally to drive more sustainable and cost-efficient last-mile logistics.

Barcelona Activa, the economic development agency of Barcelona City Council, will support 20 startups at the 4YFN 2022 event to showcase a range of entrepreneurial projects developed through its incubators and support programmes.

Backed by Lanzadera, Columat is positioning itself to transform the click & collect model — a service increasingly championed by major retailers such as El Corte Inglés. The company aims to solve one of e-commerce’s core friction points: enabling convenient order collection for consumers who are rarely at home.

Widely regarded as one of the most important global events for startups, the Mobile World Congress will once again position Barcelona as a hub for innovation, investment and institutional collaboration. Among the 500 participating companies is Columat, a startup that has developed an automated smart locker solution for streamlined order collection.