Bespoke mezzanine floor for DFS
Furniture retailer DFS ordered two specially-developed Transdek mezzanine floor lifts for its Glasgow customer distribution centre.
25-tonner leads the way for machine tools firm
Heavy forklifts from Doosan handle machine tools for engineering firm Mills CNC.
Cosmetics firm installs new warehouse
Viokox specialises in the design, development, manufacture of cosmetics products and has expanded the warehouse in the company’s headquarters in Spain.
Technology challenges and opportunities for warehouse management
As a business grows, business owners face the challenge of managing this growth and its implications for business operations. Stock control management is one area of a business that can experience growing pains, often showing itself in increased costs, poor service, slow productivity or stock wastage.
Doosan launches rugged electric counterbalance truck
Doosan has launched a powerful new range of four-wheel electric counterbalance forklift trucks, the B45X-7 Series, as a viable alternative to increasingly regulated IC Engine equivalents.
Innovative heavy-lifting electric forklifts to launch
Jungheinrich will release a new series of heavy-lifting electric counterbalanced trucks, that come with a lithium-ion option and can lift up to 9 tonnes at a load centre of 900mm.
Winter warmer
Combilift sideloader proves its worth in snowy yard, with its the all-wheel drive and traction proving a hit.
Warehouse supports two-storey eComm operations
A furniture retailer’s two-storey eComm DC, which will operate material handling equipment (MHE) on both levels, features the Permaban Wave armoured joint.
Automating Omnichannel logistics
Jumbo Supermarkten – the second largest food retailer in the Netherlands – has awarded the order to design and implement a new automated national logistics centre to Witron.
Simple driverless transport for quick retail returns
An online retailer’s profitability will stand or fall on having time- and cost-effective returns management. Edward Hutchison, Managing Director of BITO Storage Systems, explains how driverless transport systems can fulfil this need in online retail intralogistics operations.
Shelving solution installed for Christmas
Saddlery Brands International, the distributor of Bates and Wintec equestrian saddles in the UK is now operational at its newly acquired warehouse in Brackley, following the installation of a longspan and short span shelving solution from SEC Storage, delivered against the odds during the lead-in to Christmas.
New canopy improves safety and work flow
Chemicals firm Johnson Matthey needed a canopy structure to create a covered loading area for trailers due to concerns that the wind around the trailer posts could cause whiplash and become a safety risk for employees.
Automation and peak
Emile Naus, a director at BearingPoint, on a new generation of automation.
Zalando predicts open interfaces will be key for automation
The head of logistics at pure-play fashion retailer Zalando has identified open interfaces between solutions as the key step-change to much deeper and broader take-up of automated systems.
7 reasons to consider in-truck battery visualisation
Today’s IoT technology is improving forklift truck productivity by measuring vital parameters in real time and setting alerts. This data can be also used for deeper analysis to inform both strategic and tactical decisions.
Leading ASRS tech gets better at large volume orders
Dematic is to offer AutoStore’s new Black Line cube-storage solution, which is said to be revolutionary for applications requiring very high throughputs.
Poorly planned lift leads to fatality at manufacturer
Two companies were fined following the death of a 37-year-old worker, Andrew Bowes in 2012.
SAS: Improving safety for over 20 years
Toyota’s SAS, System of Active Stability, is fitted as standard on each and every Toyota counterbalance forklift truck. After 20 years it is still unique, protecting your goods, trucks and operators as well as maximising throughput while reducing operational cost. It just never gets old.
Well prepared for Brexit
With Brexit looming, LPG supplier AvantiGas is well placed to cope with any supply chain disruption that may ensue. Managing director Dean Ewart explains to HSS editor Simon Duddy that the company draws largely on North Sea supplies.
The ultimate experience
Stewart Gosling of Red Diamond Distribution, exclusive importers of Mitsubishi forklift trucks in the UK, looks at how the designers of its EDiA EM 48-volt electrics put operators and employer ‘behind the wheel’ from the start… virtually.
