articleIn order to transport palletised beverage cartons to the central warehouses and distribution centres of customers, the German market leader for sparkling wine, Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien equipped two of its production locations with the Beumer stretch hood M high-capacity packaging systems.
productAutomated material handling systems integrator, SDI Group, has secured a three year contract to maintain all three of George at Asda’s UK automated distribution centres.
productA leading supply chain management company involved in the distribution of automotive parts recently awarded Conveyor Systems Ltd (CSL) a contract to design a conveying solution to support inbound and out bound stock replenishment and order picking at its distribution centre.
productPlastic bearing and energy chain innovator, igus offers budget conscious, yet innovative and effective, robotic solutions for the ever-evolving automation market.
articleOnline store wehkamp.nl has awarded Knapp with a contract to provide an automated handling system for a new distribution centre.
productKNAPP AG will provide the automated handling systems in a new distribution centre for the e-commerce specialist, wehkamp.nl, in the Netherlands.
productChain specialist, iwis drive systems, offers wear gauges for roller chains and leaf chains. The wear gauges allow measurement and calculation of chain stretch due to wear, in particular if the chain is situated in areas which are difficult to access.
articleA high speed two-stage switch unit becomes the latest sortation system installed at TNT by Astec Conveyors.
productInterroll’s latest ConveyorControl has streamlined the management of 24V drive technology for system integrators, plant manufacturers and end-users, providing for maximum cost efficiency. The overall system can be rapidly installed and commissioned to provide flexible, simple configuration and continuous IP54 protection rating in order to meet the requirements for industrial installations.
articleWe’re unlikely to see the end of the last minute mad dash along the high street for Christmas presents anytime soon, but with e-commerce sales becoming an increasingly vital part of the retail mix, there may be a little more elbow room this year for the more forgetful of shoppers.
articleFANUC Robotics UK has launched the M410-iC/185 universal palletising robot.
productPharmaceutical coding specialist Travtec has added a new vision system to its equipment portfolio.
productDesigners and engineers visiting Southern Manufacturing who aim to use the show to develop ideas for production and test machinery will find plenty of scope in MiniTec’s Profile System machine framing range, on display at stand F50.
productAvailable through Gordian Strapping, Italian manufacturerOMS S.p.A. has launched a new, high-speed stretch hooding machine – the IS45.
productVitronic Machine Vision has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to automate the manual processing of flats and small parcels from a large parcel and post customer.
productSupplier of packaging equipment for the whole fresh bird wrapping market, Ulma Packaging has in conjunction with a major industry processor launched a new packaging format for poultry that offers attractive presentation, product protection and exceptional hygiene standards by removing human contact with the uncooked item, from the supermarket shelf to oven.
productWhen Thomas Hardy installed a new shrinkwrapper to handle a wide range of bottles/packaging, the company approached Walsall Engineering to help overcome space issues by coming up with the optimum design solution to modify the bottle conveyors feeding the new machine.
productThe company’s latest SoniXs Pallet Press models from strapping specialist Mosca use less energy than a domestic hair dryer and, as a result, are branded with the company’s ‘GET Inside’ (Green Efficient Technology) logo, which indicates that the machines benefit from more efficient energy consumption. The ‘GET Inside’ branding is visible on all of the machines that use SoniXs and Direct Drive technology.
articleWal-Mart subsidiary, Asda, has awarded Swisslog’s UK business with a major maintenance and support contract for one of its flagship depots, the Integrated Distribution Centre (IDC) in Lutterworth.
articleThe Autocruiser can play a major role in keeping costs down at the same time as increasing efficiency, particularly when used with the LogiMat vertical lift storage system, says SSI Schaefer business development & marketing manager Mike Alibone.
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