articleKingsland Drinks partitions workspace
Westgate had previously worked with Kingsland Drinks supplying them with Hoardfast; a part height partitioning system.
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productKlimate keeps in the cold
BID Group was recently called in to a Lancashire Dairy when a new high speed door was needed for its cold store.
articleHygiene a priority with new pallet design
A new plastic pallet offering optimum hygiene and strength has joined the range offered by Goplasticpallets.com.
articleKFC dramatically returns to Bidvest after logistics debacle
Bidvest Logistics confirmed it has signed a long-term agreement with KFC UK & Ireland to provide renewed supply to up to 350 of their restaurants in the North of the UK, from 26th March 2018.
articleKFC debacle could harm DHL’s reputation says leading consultant
Bidvest ‘effectively bails out’ DHL for a significant portion of KFC’s restaurant deliveries, after DHL ran into serious difficulties after it took the contract on.
productRapid action doors installed quickly
Sauces manufacturer Jigsaw Foods in Shirebrook, Mansfield needed two new doors in one of its factory units in an area where ingredients are first unpacked to be moved into production.
articleHandling 30 pallets per hour
Airflow has released a new machine that allows the insertion and removal of freezer spacers into the palletised load.
productTip the scales
HBM has released the WTX110-A Industrial Weighing Terminal, which is encased in robust stainless steel housing and is certified to IP69, making it suitable for industrial and legal for trade weighing applications in harsh environments or for products with strict hygiene requirements, such as those in the food industry.
articleThe fallout from the KFC logistics crisis
HSS rounds up comment on KFC’s delivery crisis and the implications for its principal logistics partner, DHL.
productPotato supplier saves carbon
CO2 emissions reduced by almost 500,000kg per year compared with white wood pallets.
productCrown wins iF Design Award 2018
Crown has earned the prestigious iF Design Award for the WP 3010 compact pallet truck.
productSolution promises to speed up lorry loading
The beverage industry is a typical application where empties and full bottles, cans, drums, crates, packing material, and pallets, are handled in multiple logistic flows.
productFood industry storage and packing specialist installs nine blast freezers
Blue Cube Portable Cold Stores installed three blast freezers at Rick Bestwick’s Warrington and Scunthorpe facilities.
articleMarks and Spencer selects Zetes to boost visibility
M&S will deploy Zetes’ supply chain visibility platform, ZetesOlympus, selected Zetes to help manage its fresh food supply chain. Part of this will involve facilitating greater collaboration between M&S and its food suppliers.
articleOcado reveals near zero food waste level
Online supermarket Ocado has published its food waste figures, revealing a figure of 0.02%, or 1 in 6,000 food items wasted.
newsFrozen foods producer renews supply chain contract
XPO Logistics has renewed its longstanding supply chain support of Daloon Foods, part of the Izico Food Group.
articleInnovative logistics needed for intense grocery eCommerce market
The grocery eCommerce market is well on course to reach current predictions of between £18-20bn in 2020 – a remarkable story of growth and supply chain capability given the intense and unique requirements that selling food in multiple temperature ranges presents.
articleRetailer invests in Witron’s OPM technology
The Canadian grocer Metro implemented the picking technology in a -28 deg C warehouse.
articleEfficiency at your fingertips
Typically, order picking applications would not be the first thing you would associate with health and safety risk, but order picking is a labour-intensive process.
productRefrigeration innovation
Food company chooses new generation blast freezer units to double frozen and chilled capacity while reducing running costs.
