New force in batteries
Manbat shows its commitment to the industrial market as a high quality national battery provider following the acquisition of PowerCell Industrial Battery Engineers. HSS editor Simon Duddy shares the details.
Is Sunday delivery an opportunity for carriers to boost efficiency?
Retailing and logistics are starting to develop a negative, inverse relationship. As e-commerce levels continue to grow, volumes of parcels delivered right first time have been dropping steadily, says DA Systems MD David Upton.
Top tips for avoiding drive-aways
Excellent safety advice here, from logistics professionals themselves, through the Labyrinth Safety Circle.
Witron modernises huge DC
With revenue of $98 billion US dollars and 375,000 employees, the food retailer The Kroger Co, headquartered in Cincinnati, is one of the largest retailers in the world.
Garment picking races to 1,000 outfits an hour
The Dürkopp system also allows fashion brand ACS to track individual garments using RFID technology.
Putting their feet up
With some lorry drivers opting for retirement rather than investing in the the extra training now needed to drive a HGV, Geoff Dossetter discusses the very real prospect of a driver shortage in the run-up to Christmas.
Designed for the warehouse
The new MID-MAX LED from Luxonic is designed to provide lighting solutions for open areas of medium height in warehousing and production.
Making sweet music
The Interroll Intelliveyor saves up to 50% energy and therefore costs, compared to a centralised driven system.
Compact and powerful
Impact Handling is bringing compact high tonnage electric forklifts from a long established manufacturer to the UK. HSS editor Simon Duddy sees the trucks in action in the Netherlands.
Cold store option
Yale’s cold store MR looks set to offer temperature controlled warehouse operators a range of features to keep drivers warm and productive while forcing lifetime costs down.
Putting safety first
Logistics operations are required to deliver ever increasing levels of storage density and retrieval speed. As demands on performance continue to rise, so must the ability to maintain a safe working environment.
Jungheinrich releases compact reach trucks for narrow aisles
The trucks are designed for narrow aisles, can lift to over 7m and operators can check payloads to ensure safety limits are not exceeded.
Designed for medium-duty
Linde Material Handling has added four models to its extensive portfolio of reach trucks.
Flexible approach
SDI Group senior sales manager Winnie Ahrens answers key questions on garment handling.
Unified approach
The UniCarriers Group has moved to unify the forklift brands within the company. The company was formed in 2011 from Atlet, Nissan Forklift and TCM. Forklifts will now be sold under the UniCarriers brand.
Productivity boost
Toyota says you can find out your optimum fleet size and how to best use your forklifts using its I_Site software.
Comprehensive approach
Linde unveils an impressive range of forklift tools, such as Safety Pilot which allows operators to calculate load lift limits.
12 channel roller conveyor unit
A 12 channel roller conveyor unit was designed and built by MiniTec for an automotive manufacturer that specialises in CVJ systems (constant-velocity joints), trans-axle solutions and eDrive Systems.
Conveying and sorting combined
The Festo WaveHandler is a pneumatic conveyor concept for the transportation and simultaneous sorting of delicate objects.
Modular roller track
The Eleroll modular roller track system from Elesa includes hard thermoplastic and soft-touch elastomer rollers plus omnidirectional ball rollers.
