articlePharma firm deploys agile shuttles
Pharmaceutical compounding company Fagron has commissioned KNAPP to kit out its new warehouse in Belgium.
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articleSports Direct denies naming and shaming warehouse workers
The sportswear retailer has sought to counter press allegations that workers suffer poor treatment at the company’s Shirebrook warehouse.
articleNothing fashionable about being late
Fashion retailer The Varner Group is taking advantage of the latest technology to ensure orders do not arrive fashionably late.
articleUnion dismisses Sports Direct £10m pay pledge
Unite the Union has called the Sports Direct pledge to release £10m for the pay of permanent and casual warehouse workers a ‘publicity stunt’.
productBAE Systems awards new-build warehouse contract
Construction firm Pochin’s has won a £10.8m contract to develop a 164,000 sq ft warehouse for BAE Systems. The facility is adjacent the F-35 jet manufacturing site in Samlesbury, Lancashire.
productMeeting the Christmas potato rush
Spaciotempo helped Greenvale ramp up potato production to meet a massive increase in demand from major supermarkets over the festive period.
articleKnow your planning rules
Mezzanines are popular and cost saving but rules need to be adhered to in their specification and installation, explains Shaun Sutton, designer at Rapid Racking.
newsSpec build DCs on way for West London
Prologis will develop two speculative units of 113,335 sq ft and 78,780 sq ft at Prologis Park West London, its 30 acre site next to Stockley Park in Hayes, Middlesex.
newsHuge spec build planned for ex Rolls Royce site in Bristol
Developers St Francis Group and Marcol Industrial have acquired the former Rolls-Royce East Works site. Construction work is to start on the 65-acre business park early this year.
productUKWA calls for help in supporting growing population
The UK supply chain community needs the support of a Government that not only understands the problems that it faces but, more importantly, is prepared to take appropriate steps to help solve them.
productMeachers Global Logistics appoints two general managers
Southampton based, Meachers Global Logistics, has recently implemented a restructuring of its senior management team with the appointment of two general managers.
productLearn how to inspect racking yourself
Pallet Racking is considered work equipment by the Provision and Use Of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER). Therefore it should be independently inspected by competent and trained inspectors on an annual basis.
productDouble-storey storage
Electrical component manufacturer and distributor Multi-Contact has made the most productive use of a recent re-location project by installing a Modula Vertical Lift storage and retrieval system from Couzens Storage Solutions.
productDismantled warehouse is re-assembled
SEGRO, owner of the Slough Trading Estate, has signed a 10 year lease with existing customer ‘Lanes for Drains’ for 9 Cambridge Avenue, a warehouse which was dismantled and re-built elsewhere on the Estate to make way for the new Leigh Road bridge.
articleIKEA DC will feature 45 metre high-bay
Jungheinrich has won the contract to provide the handling systems for IKEA Russia’s new distribution centre.
productKanes Foods awards contract to Pooling Partners
Pallet pooling specialist, IPP Logipal UK & Ireland, part of Pooling Partners, has won a sole-supply contract from Kanes Foods, one of the UK’s most respected suppliers of fresh prepared chilled produce to the major multiples. Previously, Kanes Foods dual-sourced its pallets.
productSamson Nano to show its transparent costing
Samuel Grant will exhibit its Samson Nano palletwrapper at Foodex 2016.
newsWhittan Group completes Apex Linvar acquisition
The acquisition of Apex Linvar was completed on Friday 22 January 2016, following clearance by the Competition and Markets Authority earlier in the month.
articleAutomation relieves pressure
Dave Mayne, UK operations manager at integrated logistics provider Partner Logistics, looks at the challenges faced by the cold storage industry faces and how warehouse automation can help to overcome them.
articleReaching up in plunging temperatures
Food group deploys Combi-WR pedestrian reach stacker from Combilift in cold store.
