articleCompact reach truck
With a 4000kg lift capacity, the SQ 40 is the new flagship model in the Hubtex range of reach trucks.
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productTransformers walk on air
Since the 1970s Solving has been providing Air Film Movers to all the major transformer manufacturers to enable these industrial giants to be moved, efficiently and safely through production, into test and beyond, enabling cranes to be dedicated to essential assembly processes.
newsPPMA announces awards finalists
The judging for the PPMA Group Industry Awards has now been completed and the finalists announced.
newsMan jailed after fatal overhead crane accident
A Hampshire businessman, who was disqualified from being a company director, has been jailed for serious fraud and safety offences. A second businessman was given a suspended prison sentence for similar offences.
newsSwisslog backs UK engineering students
The future of UK engineering is incredibly bright, according to Swisslog’s head of customer service, Steve Thorp.
articleEngineering savvy makes reach truck hire work
Finding a fork lift truck for hire can be a fairly simple task, but when the requirement is for lifting to 11 metres, it can prove a more complicated challenge.
articlePower play
Toyota Material Handling UK counterbalance product manager Dave Rylance is passionate about high tonnage forklifts and talks to HSS editor Simon Duddy about the nuances involved in deciding between diesel and electric powered models.
productConveyor Systems transfer technology to automotive industry
A leading car manufacturer awarded Conveyor Systems Ltd (CSL) a contract to design and supply a conveying system incorporating both twin and single trolley cars to transport cages of flat steel sheets weighing up to 4 tonnes to and from a hydraulic press to produce body panels.
newsLiverpool factory installs Interroll Dynamic Storage
Interroll stepped up from supplier to project manage the complete installation of a dynamic flow storage system at the Liverpool factory of Getrag Ford Transmissions, when the main contractor went into administration.
articleCompact and powerful
Impact Handling is bringing compact high tonnage electric forklifts from a long established manufacturer to the UK. HSS editor Simon Duddy sees the trucks in action in the Netherlands.
articleForklift transfer platform provides safe solution
Contact Attachments supplied one of its forklift platforms to Abrasive Finishing Systems to enable the firm’s employees to move machines in and out of its demonstration room on the first floor of its building in a safer and more efficient manner.
productABB automates its warehouse with the help of Swisslog
Swisslog has received its latest order to create a state-of-the-art AutoStore facility in Switzerland.
newsTractors and platform trucks launch
Linde Material Handling is launching a new product family of tractors and platform trucks onto the market.
newsGerman handling equipment manufacturer plans UK launch
LKE Group has targeted the UK to help in its bid to double turnover over the next five years.
articleTaking control of the skills challenge
Dr Ross Moloney, CEO of Skills for Logistics, reviews the state of skills in the logistics sector and how employers can take control of the challenge this presents.
productConveyor provides product transfer between floor levels
The component division of a leading German automobile manufacturer awarded Conveyor Systems Ltd (CSL) a contract to improve the efficiency in transferring car wheel assemblies between ground and mezzanine floor levels, as the existing vertical platform elevator was both slow and proving to be unreliable.
productGetrag Ford Transmissions gear up with Interroll Dynamic Storage
Interroll recently installed a Dynamic Storage system at the Liverpool factory of Getrag Ford Transmissions.
articleFuture perfect?
What does the future hold for the logistics industry over the next decade? Dave Berridge, Secretary of the Automated Material Handling System Association (AMHSA) takes out his crystal ball.
articleAutomotive firm boosts fleet management
Calsonic Kansei is the number one supplier of automotive parts to Nissan, and one of UK’s most successful manufacturers. Thanks to Rushlift, production remains firmly on the right road.
articleAutomated innovation
German manufacturer uses semi-automated shuttles and fully automated reach trucks from Still in a channel rack system.
