Amazon enhances warehouse safety focus
The giant online retailer has unveiled its European Operations Innovation Lab, designed to enhance the employee experience through the development of advanced technologies that support safer ways of working.
The giant online retailer has unveiled its European Operations Innovation Lab, designed to enhance the employee experience through the development of advanced technologies that support safer ways of working.
CopriSystems’ bespoke vision and high performance warehousing solutions enable businesses to respond quickly to accelerating levels of growth.
Key to achieving efficiency gains in fashion logistics is intelligent and ergonomic workstation design, an area in which KNAPP has channelled its significant expertise.
Beumer Group has launched the BG Pouch System in response to rapid growth of interest from omnichannel and D2C operators.
THE PLASTIC PACKAGING TAX, to be implemented from 1 April 2022, will levy £200 per tonne on all plastic packaging materials made or imported to the UK that contain less than 30% recyclate.
ON A footprint of 170,000 square feet, Levi Strauss & Co. is building one of Europe’s largest logistics hubs for fashion items and accessories.
SUGARCANE FIBRE, a by-product of harvesting that has traditionally been thrown away, is now being repurposed as a reclaimed resource with the same reliable properties as polythene plastic.
THE SEALED AIR Mail Lite mailers are now designed for recycling, as the inner bubble sleeve can be easily detached from the outer paper sleeve, which in turn uses FSC certified, non-coated Kraft paper from responsible forestry. Each component can then be separately reused or recycled in the appropriate waste stream.
WITH OVER half of UK shoppers saying that they regularly return items bought online, the BCMPA – the Association for Contract Manufacturing, Packing, Fulfilment & Logistics says trust in efficient returns handling is an essential part of the online shopping experience.
PROTEGA GLOBAL has launched the paper-based packing system Hexcel Dispenser Bench. The compact unit has been developed and manufactured in the UK to complement its paper alternative to plastic bubble wrap.
Packaging supplier Southgate is calling for the wider industry to address the challenges of sustainable packaging within e-commerce, as the sector experiences continued unprecedented growth.
Global beauty brand, L’Occitane, has joined forces with cleaning contractor ICE Cleaning to mitigate the spread of viruses and bacteria, including coronavirus, throughout its warehouse to ensure the safety and wellbeing of its employees at all times.
THE LOBO platform is used to repair Amazon fulfilment centre racking.
If you’re planning to increase your footprint by building up rather than out, early collaboration with your mezzanine supplier will pay dividends, says Geoff Green.
A leading online grocer is installing 28 high speed doors across its new CFCs in Bristol, Andover and Purfleet.
Selazar has opened a flagship warehouse in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The new warehouse will see the UK-based tech company increase its reach to all areas of the country.
Kite Packaging’s new 300,900 square foot site is to be built at Prospero Ansty Park in Coventry.
A new report into the size and make up of the UK warehousing sector, commissioned by the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) and produced by Savills, has highlighted major growth in the sector and seismic shifts in occupier profile over the last six years.
A major off-price fashion retailer wanted to make stock checking of high-speed garment handling more efficient and turned to a dynamic duo in material handling.
WITH COVID now seemingly on the back foot, many storage facilities are looking to get back to full operational capacity.