articleNew force in batteries
Manbat shows its commitment to the industrial market as a high quality national battery provider following the acquisition of PowerCell Industrial Battery Engineers. HSS editor Simon Duddy shares the details.
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newsFLTA invites entries from fork lift truck firms for prestigious customer service title
Have you gone the extra mile – and beyond – to meet a customer’s special materials handling needs?
newsSideloaders on show at timber exhibition
Bulmor Lancer will showcase its LQ 50 range sideloader at the W14 exhibition at the NEC from October 6-8.
newsNew Combilift fleet for Stamco
Stamco has been supplying the south east of England with prepared timber, mouldings, treated timbers and building materials for 57 years and the company has recently installed a sizeable fleet of new Combilift sideloaders at its main facility at St Leonards on Sea.
newsForklift Summit sees UniCarriers complete re-brand and launch models
The UniCarriers Group has moved to unify the forklift brands within the company. The company was formed in 2011 from Atlet, Nissan Forklift and TCM. Forklifts will now be sold under the UniCarriers brand.
productSpecialised sideloaders
When ThyssenKrupp Materials, a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp AG, moved to new premises the company changed its fleet of specialised sideloaders.
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.
articleCold store option
Yale’s cold store MR looks set to offer temperature controlled warehouse operators a range of features to keep drivers warm and productive while forcing lifetime costs down.
articleJungheinrich releases compact reach trucks for narrow aisles
The trucks are designed for narrow aisles, can lift to over 7m and operators can check payloads to ensure safety limits are not exceeded.
articleDesigned for medium-duty
Linde Material Handling has added four models to its extensive portfolio of reach trucks.
articleUnified approach
The UniCarriers Group has moved to unify the forklift brands within the company. The company was formed in 2011 from Atlet, Nissan Forklift and TCM. Forklifts will now be sold under the UniCarriers brand.
articleProductivity boost
Toyota says you can find out your optimum fleet size and how to best use your forklifts using its I_Site software.
articleComprehensive approach
Linde unveils an impressive range of forklift tools, such as Safety Pilot which allows operators to calculate load lift limits.
product750,000th truck
Linde Material Handling is celebrating a milestone in manufacturing at its main plant in Aschaffenburg, Germany with the assembly of its 750,000th truck. It also announced the biggest ever investment at the Aschaffenburg site – worth about 60 million Euros – which will be focused on expanding the busy site by 2021.
articleDon’t be casual about Christmas warehouse staff
With the Christmas rush approaching fast, the UK’s largest forklift truck training provider, Mentor Training, has reminded businesses that inadequate training for seasonal staff can put everyone in danger.
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.
articleWindsor acquires Ambassador Lift Trucks
Windsor Materials Handling has acquired Essex-based Ambassador Forklifts.
productDoosan debuts G2
Doosan Industrial Vehicle UK has launched environmentally-friendly, cost-effective forklifts using the G2 engine, which Doosan designed from scratch to meet the latest emissions regulations.
productMaintenance & service package
Materials handling services specialist Briggs Equipment has won a new contract worth £250,000 to supply forklift trucks along with lift and access equipment to Car Parts Industries (CPI), one of the leading remanufacturers of automotive parts in Europe.
productKeg handling attachments
Hartlepool-based Camerons Brewery produces over half a million barrels of beer on site per annum, equating to over 180 million pints per year. To support growth at the brewery, forklift attachment supplier and exclusive UK distributor of Kaup equipment, B&B Attachments, has supplied five innovative Kaup keg clamps through Jungheinrich.
