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IMPORT SERVICES LIMITED CHOOSE NEWLAND BOOM CONVEYOR SYSTEMS

Southampton based Import Services Limited are specialists in Retail Supply Chain Logistics. Their new DC, in the heart of Southampton container port, boasts an impressive 170,000 square feet with storage facilities for 20,000 pallets, utilising custom-built racking. To maximise their efficiency, they needed reliable, specially designed inbound conveyors to speed-up the unloading process of loose loaded cartons from 40-foot sea containers.

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We need to talk about dock shock

The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reports that shock (jarring and jolting) causes 36% of all head, neck, and back injuries associated with mobile equipment operators. The profitability of virtually every facility with a loading bay is adversely affected.

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ASDA comes back for more

Union Industries, the UK market leading manufacturer of industrial rapid roll doors, is supporting a new temperature control system at ASDA’s Distribution Centre in Rochdale.

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Hart appointments

Gordon Kipling has joined Hart Door Systems as Service Manager with responsibility for servicing Hart’s and other manufacturers’ doors across the UK.

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Container access

New from Thorworld Industries is a range of low-cost ramps specifically designed to allow easier access into standard shipping containers.

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Distribution & logistics focus

Distribution and logistics facilities will feature prominently in the plans of ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems – Industrial Door and Docking Solutions UK for 2013/14.

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ALEM committed to safety

At the Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) Safety Conference in September 2012, it was revealed that fork lift truck accidents are once again on the rise. Delegates heard the “latest figures from the HSE reveal a 4% increase in serious fork lift accidents in 2010/2011, following a two year decline in accidents requiring hospitalisation, such as amputations, dislocations and long-bone fractures.”

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Bonmarché banishes drive-aways

Bonmarché, the UK’s largest value womenswear retailer for women aged 50+ years, has improved the safety of its loading and unloading operations with the adoption of Castell’s Salvo.

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Door deal sealed

Hart Doors Systems has supplied a high-speed door, a sectional overhead door and two inflatable dock seals for Steinhoff UK Group Properties at its 420,000ft2 Magna Park, distribution facility in Warrington, for its Harveys and Benson for Beds subsidiary.

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Bespoke yardramps

To highlight the importance of tailor-made solutions, Thorworld Industries has detailed some of the reasons why its customers require bespoke yardramps.

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Drum transfer solution

Exmac Automation has provided a bespoke conveying system to King Transport Equipment to transfer drums containing nuclear waste via two specially designed trailer units that are used to transport low-level nuclear waste within the Sellafield reprocessing plant.

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Double decking: lost in translation?

Transdek UK md Mark Adams believes the double deck trailer industry has great potential for delivering more supply chain efficiencies but is concerned that transport operators are in danger of failing to take advantage of the benefits. Is the logistics industry missing a trick?

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Thorworld fashions a bespoke solution

Thorworld Industries has designed and manufactured two bespoke mobile yardramps for recycling expert BCR Global Textiles, to help manoeuvre the increasing number of clothing containers being processed by the organisation.

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Reliable choice

sara LBS has supplied a selection of loading bay equipment to a leading UK supermarket chain for use in its store at the Trinity Leeds shopping centre.

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