A world leader in the supply of atmospheric, process and specialty gases has begun taking delivery of state-of-the-art forklift trucks after signing a major new contract with Yale Europe Materials Handling and the Forkway Group.
To date Addgards has supplied over 1000 Column Protectors to retail distribution centres throughout the UK and Ireland.
Impact Handling business development manager Peter Woodhouse says service is important for both business success and new product development.
Fashion brand, The Sting, has used fast sortation technology to effect rapid store replenishment, giving the retailer a significant competitive edge.
RediTechniX has released a ‘plug and go’ pallet buffer and sequencer module for its RediLogX automated pallet storage and retrieval system.
Compact & Bale is offering Strautmann Automate to Save recycling machinery aimed at the logistics market.
In March, the Health & Safety Executive issued its long-awaited update to fork lift truck safety guidelines, Rider-operated lift trucks. Operator training and safe use. Approved Code of Practice and Guidance (L117). Owen Delaney, technical manager at the Fork Lift Truck Association takes us through the revised documentation.
Warehouse automation supplier, KNAPP, has developed an innovative solution for the automatic handling of containers in the grocery sector.
For JD Williams, the leading UK fashion and home goods retailer, warehouse automation is mission-critical and must remain as versatile, efficient and trouble-free as possible. To ensure goods are located and picked reliably, SICK UK has trialled vision camera technology which will be integrated into warehouse systems to achieve increased reliability and precision.
The French eCommerce pioneer vente-privee.com has chalked up staggering growth over the last decade. With earnings of less than one million euros in 2002, the company turned over €1.3 billion euros in Europe last year.
DMF Projects sales manager Derek Scott offers some points to keep in mind when opting for mezzanine floors.
Be sure to check out HSSTV, the video section on the Handling & Storage Solutions website.
Whether a large multinational retailer or a small single-unit self-storage operator, exploiting the space available at a site can be key to maximising its potential and ensuring a good return on investment.
Distribution centre design has evolved from a ‘low and wide’ strategy to ‘narrow and high’, says TGW sales director Phil Steeds.
John K Phillips Group enhanced operations with three double pallet handling LPG counterbalance trucks from Windsor Materials Handling. John K Phillips offers a national delivery service to the paint and chemical industry, as well as general UK and European distribution.
Every now and then an initiative really catches the eye. In this case it is the collaboration between the mechanical engineering gurus at Cambridge University, and the logistics boffins at Heriot-Watt University, which have joined forces to form the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (CfSRF).
SDI’s PTU sorter has transformed sortation performance at No Limit’s multi-client distribution centre near Warsaw from day one.
If the WMS has reached a level where most users’ requirements can be met and there are many products (including some purely web based) around to meet them, does that then mean it is possible to simply buy one off-the-shelf and ‘plug and go?’ asks Alex Mills of Chess Logistics Technology.
Doosan Industrial Vehicle UK director & general manager Tim Waples explains there is much more than counterbalance trucks to the Korean giant’s offering.
With the call for nominations now going out for the Fork Lift Truck Association Awards for Excellence, what better time to ask Peter Harvey, Chief Executive of the FLTA, what’s in store for Awards 2014.
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