New facilities boost SDI Group’s expansion
SDI Group recently moved into new premises in Hinckley, Leicestershire – just round the corner from its previous site – to facilitate the company’s rapid expansion and exciting new business developments.
SDI Group recently moved into new premises in Hinckley, Leicestershire – just round the corner from its previous site – to facilitate the company’s rapid expansion and exciting new business developments.
The £2m construction project was completed by warehouse and distribution construction company, Chalcroft who worked with project management consultants SBH to increase L’Oréal’s facility by l5,000 sq m.
A clever solution originally designed for a major French sports retailer has become the latest addition to Schoeller Allibert’s range of returnable transit packaging (RTP).
US grocery giant Kroger has orders an automated storage and picking system from Cimcorp.
The government should not be spending over £50bn on the new High Speed 2 rail network just to shave minutes off passenger journeys, says Bill Goodwin, sales director of materials handling and logistics company Briggs Equipment.
Skipton based Merritt and Fryers is the first company in the timber and merchant sector in the UK to take delivery of the new Combilift 4 wheel sideloader.
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?
When the Longley Concrete Group decided to upgrade its fleet of sideloaders, the Dewsbury-based company chose Italian manufacturer Baumann as its exclusive supplier for the first time.
Hyster’s H8-16XM forklift trucks use significantly less fuel to do more work than the previous generation models.
One of Combilift’s largest capacity models to date – a 28t capacity Straddle Carrier (Combi-SC) – is in operation at Caledonian Modular’s site in Newark. The manufacturer of modular buildings wanted a more efficient and safer way of moving finished modules from the manufacturing facilities to the storage yards.
New Stanley Handling managing director Alex Payne told HSS editor Simon Duddy he is revamping the business with a swathe of improved Robur products leading the charge.
Swisslog is expanding an organic food distribution centre for Alnatura in Germany providing high bay racking to 17.5m.
The fast implementation of truck mounted computers from Honeywell has accelerated operations at Jaguar Land Rover.
Nearly half of UK businesses regard reducing the cost of running warehouse operations as their most critical challenge for business improvement – even more critical than speed of fulfilment.
When faced with 10,000 SKUs one of the UK’s largest clothing retailers school uniform range, 3PL Dalepak needed a flexible storage solution.
Yale’s new MR reach truck pushes levels of productivity and dependability to new heights for warehouse operators while squeezing cost of ownership to an absolute minimum.
DP World London Gateway has been honoured by rail freight operator DB Schenker Rail UK in a locomotive naming ceremony which took place at the rail terminal at the UK’s newest deep-sea container port and logistics park.
One of the best known and most iconic names in the transport and distribution sector, Eddie Stobart, has placed a substantial order with Irish articulated forklift manufacturer Aisle-Master to provide a fleet of trucks for its Contract Logistics and Warehousing division.
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has supplied five TR618i terminal tractors to Solent Stevedores at the Port of Jersey, replacing existing equipment in fleet at the port and creating significant capacity in RoRo operations.