productHunts Foodservice, an independent frozen, chilled and ambient food supplier with sites across the South West, bought a fixed loading platform and dock leveller in 2016 for its Sherborne warehouse from Thorworld.
productA North East-based car parts manufacturer, SNOP UK, has today been sentenced after a worker was seriously-injured.
productPregis has announced the launch of its new Easypack Coiler, a high volume, high-speed ancillary packaging solution that boosts on-demand packing times and enhances user experience.
productYaskawa UK’s Motoman Robotics division has partnered with Reeco Automation as a solution provider for its new Motoman HC10 collaborative Robot, a 6 axes human-collaborative robot (cobot).
articleTemporary buildings are helping to meet the needs of the highly demanding automotive industry, explains Dan Barker, sales manager at Spaciotempo.
productSmart-Space, a leading manufacturer and installer of re-locatable, semi-permanent and permanent buildings, has completed construction of a timber processing and storage facility at Mike England Timber’s headquarters near Preston, Lancashire.
articleWholesaler installs Gebhardt ‘StoreBiter’ multi-level-shuttles in its shuttle warehouse and one ‘Cheetah eco’ stacker crane in its container warehouse.
productTwo production lines handling an iconic, alcoholic beverage in France had to reach a densely packed palletising area.
articleGreat Bear chooses 58 truck fleet from Crown to boost warehouse efficiency at 24/7 DC operation. To boost flexibility for the leading 3PL Crown offered a pay-as-you-go model for some of the fleet.
articleRidgeons Timber and Builders Merchants has improved efficiency by upgrading its fleet with Baumann sideloaders. The move comes after independent builders merchants Huws Gray completed an acquisition of the business in 2018.
articleCaunton Engineering is one of the UK’s leading fully automated structural steelwork contractors and a world leader in Just-In-Time manufacture. Designing, fabricating, painting and erecting structural steelwork for the construction industry, the Nottinghamshire business employs over 250 people and has annual turnover in excess of £64m.
productHere in the UK, most e-commerce businesses are likely in the middle of their peak season. Black Friday has been and gone, but the peak is still underway. For many consumers, the annual shopping event marks a starting point for Christmas shopping, making the holiday peak season even longer.
productRubb has designed, manufactured and delivered a warehouse storage facility for racking and food packaging at a farm in Oxfordshire, UK.
articleThe Talent in Logistics event is dedicated to promoting logistics recruitment and supporting staff retention. The event is moving to Milton Keynes for 2019 and the team will unveil a white paper on student perceptions of logistics in the coming months.
articleA leading sports equipment retailer is on target for one hundred percent accuracy following the implementation of a new warehouse management system (WMS) from Snapfulfil.
productOne of Combilift’s newest products, the Combi-PPT, will make its global trade fair debut at LogiMAT 2019.
productRecent Office of National Statistics (ONS) retail figures defied many analysts’ gloomy predictions with overall spending up 5% YOY in November. Online spending continued to drive retail growth as e-commerce sales soared by 13.1% over November 2017.
newsYorkshire-based cold storage and transport business The Reed Boardall Group grew turnover to £61.6m in its last financial year (ending 31 March 2018), a 2.3% rise in revenues from £60.2m last year.
articleDeveloped primarily to meet the needs of the changing automotive industry, Daifuku has launched SPDR (pronounced Spider) as a temporary storage and sortation systems for spare parts.
articleHubtex highlights how it is helping Boeing to build planes faster. HSS editor Simon Duddy also hears how the specialist manufacturer anticipates automated models will claim half of the electric sideloader market in ten years.
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