productEssential range offers lower cost heavy duty forklifts
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has launched a new range of forklifts based on its proven and trusted platform.
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articleSwisslog customers step into the future
Automation specialist, Swisslog, is inviting businesses looking to invest in robot-based and data-driven intralogistics solutions to take a virtual tour around their own future warehouse.
articleStacking the racking with Combilift
Storage capacity doubled thanks to multidirectional Combi-CB3000 truck.
articleForklift deal includes ‘buy-back’ arrangements
A Mitsubishi fork lift fleet is helping one of the UK’s largest independent paper converters maintain a decade of consistent growth.
productAutomated conveyor system ends bottlenecks for production plant
An automated pallet conveying system designed and installed by Gebhardt-ECS for one of Europe’s biggest paint manufacturers is enabling up to 100 loads an hour to be delivered directly from production to specific storage areas in a separate warehouse without intermediate handling.
articleWinners announced in FTA Everywoman Awards
Twelve of the most inspirational role models in the UK’s transport and logistics industry have been announced today as winners in the 2017 FTA everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards.
articleElectric hoist for 35 tonne crane at BMW Swindon
The first of three cranes featuring Verlinde Eurobloc VT electric-hoist technology has been installed in the busy press at BMW Group´s Mini plant in Swindon.
productIntegrated RFID cable ties
Smartrac has announced its Ratch tag product line, the first RFID-enabled cable ties with fully integrated RFID tags.
productUPS study reveals eCommerce disrupting industrial distribution
Industrial distributors must re-think their business models in order to survive.
articleAre UK warehouses ready for tomorrow’s technology today?
James Sharples, Managing Director of Swisslog UK, shares his thoughts on the challenges impacting warehouses, and how using tomorrow’s technology today could abolish these issues.
articleAll change in the warehouse
Logistics is in a phase of historically significant change, says Simon Barkworth, UK managing director of Crown Lift Trucks, meaning it is a fascinating time to work in the business he tells HSS editor Simon Duddy.
articleSix overhead cranes deployed
Street Crane has partnered with Hayward Tyler to supply and install six new overhead cranes for its newly extended production facility.
productThe space race
The market for warehousing in the United Kingdom is, if not in crisis, certainly facing some major challenges, says Sid Holian, MD, and Steve Purvis, operations director, at Bis Henderson Space.
articleCrystal ball gazing
Take a look at the future and you find our what is important now – eCommerce, concerns about finite warehouse space, Brexit, automation and robots et al – the following Special Report give managers an insight into the challenges that are here now and on the horizon, with some ideas as to how you may plan for them.
productCarpet manufacturer upgrades loading facilities
Cormar Carpets has made significant improvements to its Bury-based mill upgrading its loading bay facility using specialist apparatus, designed and installed by Thorworld Industries.
productWire manufacturer revamps stock management
Webster and Horsfall, a 297-year-old Birmingham company at the forefront of wire manufacturing, has transformed its stock taking with a new stock management system from mobile computer solutions provider Portech Systems.
productASRS serves multi-level racking
An automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) is enabling the Lear Corporation factory at Coventry to triple the output of car seats to over 300,000 sets a year in hundreds of different specifications and meet its customer’s just-in-time delivery schedules.
articleMichelin opens European DC in Stoke
Michelin has invested more than £10m in a major upgrade of its Stoke-on-Trent based logistics operation, opening a new European Distribution Centre.
productPaper converter invests in LPG and electric trucks
A fleet of Mitsubishi fork lift trucks is helping one of the UK’s largest independent paper converters maintain a decade of consistent growth.
productConveyors designed for handling mattresses
Anyone who has ever moved a mattress knows how difficult it is to man-handle due to the awkward size and weight. However, rising to the challenge, Astec Conveyors recently provided various non-standard conveyors to automate and improve operator’s ergonomics in handling a broad range of mattresses.
