articleTrucks for a tough challenge
Cold store operations are one of the toughest material handling challenges. UniCarriers promises to help.
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articleWine specialist takes on Toyota Toneros
Toyota Material Handling UK has supplied Lanchester Wines with a new fleet of Toyota Tonero gas-powered forklifts.
productChocolate wrappers
Egemin has supplied an automated warehouse system with AGVs to Kim’s Chocolates.
articleA fresh take on storage
BITO’s fresh food solution makes optimum use of the warehouse and ensures an uninterrupted supply chain to retailers for fruit and vegetable distributor The Greenery.
articleDoors open at 2m per second
Efaflex’s high-speed doors have recently been installed at a major frozen food processor and distributor who supplies two of the largest high street supermarkets.
newsPerth Food and Drink Park opens
The Food and Drink Park – representing a £5m investment by Perth and Kinross Council – provides up to 11 serviced development plots across a 16 acre site.
articleCarlsberg orders 98 trucks for in-house DC
After a competitive open tender, DAF has won an £11.7m order from Carlsberg UK for 98 new trucks for its in-house national distribution service.
articleSmart Lift boosts productivity on Yale powered pallet truck
Yale Europe Materials Handling introduces the new MP Series Pedestrian Powered Pallet truck which offers enhanced productivity capabilities and a smoother and more efficient operator experience.
articleWarehouse team leader trapped between two forklifts
An East Yorkshire produce company has been ordered to pay more than £46,000 after two workers were seriously injured by reversing forklift trucks in separate incidents at its vegetable processing factory in Chicksands, Bedfordshire.
productAiming for the perfect pallet
Voiteq and Kellogg’s scooped the Overall Winner gong at the SHD Logistics Awards.
articleFood firm Brakes awards nationwide deal to Windsor
Windsor Materials Handling has been awarded a nationwide contract for the maintenance of materials handling and access equipment for food services business, Brakes Group.
newsFood firm takes major facility in bid to boost supply chain
General Mills UK & Ireland has taken on a 280,000 sq. ft. site at Port Salford.
productSuitable for chilled & ambient
Kite Packaging has launched a new range of highly competitive gummed paper tape dispensers for online customers.
productFood supplier switches to voice picking
Henry Colbeck has chosen Renovotec Voice Manager to fully automate its 12,000 units-per-day picking operation.
articleUKWA scores victory for members on excise goods
Campaigning and pressure from the Association resulted in HMRC making improvements to its excise duty approvals.
articleMobile racking optimises new-build cold store
A leading fruit grower kitted out its new cold store with a mobile pallet racking system supplied and installed by SSI Schaefer.
articleTurnover up by 20% for KNAPP
The Austrian-owned automated handling company has increased turnover by 20% from 2013/14 to 2014/15 to over €466 million, with profit (EBIT) of €21m.
articleDeep freeze goes tall
Egemin Automation will build a new automated deep-freeze warehouse for producer of frozen French fries Agristo on its production site in Belgium.
productApplied Automation launches Carryline conveyors
Engineering firm Applied Automation (UK) is launching a range of Swedish conveyors.
productAutomated cheese ripening
Austrian dairy company, Pinzgau, has commissioned Egemin Automation to implement an automatic transport system for its cheese ripening warehouse, handling 800t of cheese per year.
