Target painpoints
AS WE enter 2025, two constraints are particularly persistent, says Wouter Satijn, sales director, Joloda Hydraroll, a shortage of labour and a lack of warehouse space.
Trail blazing application
Schoolwear specialist, David Luke has selected LB Foster Materials Handling to design, manufacture and install a hanging garment system for 140,000 Eco Blazers.
Tough vehicle PCs
Reducing fleet costs while enhancing productivity, GPS-based fleet management solutions from Advantech-DLoG transmit real-time data on the vehicle, load, or shipment – securely and in an easy to understand format.
Maintenance team on site
Carlsberg has extended its SSI Resident Maintenance Service Agreement with SSI Schaefer for an additional three years. The agreement paves the way for a new type of contract in connection with large, complex systems and describes intelligent and differentiated maintenance.
Automatic order picking
Handling up to a thousand products, containers, or cartons per hour, Qimarox has developed a new automated order picking system, ‘Collect & Sort’.
Logipal cleans up with Jeyes contract
Pallet pooling specialist, FHG IPP Logipal, has won a main pallet supplier contract with household cleaning specialist, Jeyes Group.
Compact & organised
A Sidetracker multi-direction reach truck has enabled structural steelwork engineers Adstone Construction to upgrade the storage system at its Worcestershire premises, increasing warehouse capacity and efficiency.
High-density storage
A telescopic cantilever racking system that provides high-density storage in a small footprint and allows one-man handling of long materials is now available from Pro-Dek Storage Systems.
Strong & hygienic
Thirty one extra plastic pallets available in the UK only through Goplasticpallets.com will be revealed over the next few months as the company launches its new CABKA-IPS pallet range.
Benelux partnership
Brownhills based distribution specialist, Twente Express, has announced a new European partnership with UPN, one of the UK’s leading pallet networks.
Asda chooses Star Refrigeration for chilled and frozen DC
The green credentials of Asda’s new chilled and frozen distribution centre in the North West have been bolstered by an environmentally conscious cooling system from Star Refrigeration.
Chess WMS for Kuehne + Nagel
Chess Logistics Technology has completed implementation of a new WMS for Kuehne + Nagel.
Increased throughput
The PROTEUS WMS Voice Solution talks people through their daily tasks, replacing paperwork, the inherent errors associated with it, and traditional data capture methods, with hands free personal voice instructions and confirmation.
Drive-thru shopping
Commenting on the Selfridges’ new ‘drive-thru’ shopping offering, Darrel Williams, regional director, Northern Europe & South Africa for Vocollect, said:
Automated baling
Compact & Bale has been appointed UK distributor for German manufacturer Strautmann’s automated baling machinery range and will have an AutoLoadBaler on its stand at the Total Processing and Packaging Exhibition.
Beware of inadequate servicing
As the economy continues to bite hard, companies are understandably thinking of cutting costs by not investing in new equipment, and relying on existing machinery.
ASRS for cold storage
Frozen logistics service provider, Yearsley Logistics, has selected Power Automation Systems (PAS) to provide the PowerStor system solution for its new Heywood Facility.
Get a grip!
Visitors to The Total Processing & PackagingTotal Processing & Packaging will be able to get grips with the elevation of liquid containers with the wide range of the SpiralVeyor BottleLifts (SpiralVeyor Portal) on the Ambaflex stand.
Linde to offset carbon footprint of forklift’s first year
The Eco-Lease solution is designed to now allow customers to offset 100% of the carbon footprint generated in the first year of a fork lift truck’s life.
Repeater has 1km range
Signatrol has introduced a high power repeater accessory for its spYdaq temperature and humidity monitoring system which enables distances of up to a kilometre between the transmitter and base station to be achieved.
