Production line handling
Wilmat has supplied West Midlands-based Covrad Heat Transfer three track mounted and three battery operated lifts, along with other ancillary equipment, used at key stages of the manufacturing process.
Pay-as-you-wrap
Pallet and container pooling solutions specialist, CHEP, has launched CHEP Stretch, an innovative new service that allows customers to use a market-leading, semi-automatic stretch wrap machine on a simple cost-per-wrap contract basis.
Winter layering
Safety supplier Arco has introduced a new winter weatherwear layering system, designed to keep workers warm, dry and comfortable.
Active light capture
Active Skylights, available exclusively in the UK from Ciralight UK, work by capturing available light and driving the light down into the building for up to ten hours a day, reducing energy consumption, improving people performance and providing environmental gains.
Virtual power plant creation
Honeywell is working with power-management company Stor Generation to help organisations automatically adjust energy use in their buildings, creating virtual power plants (VPPs) to help stabilise the electrical grid.
South West service centralised
As part of its ongoing drive to increase the efficiency of its nationwide service operation, Konecranes has consolidated its service provision within South Wales and the South West, with a new centralised facility in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire.
US expansion up & running
End-to-end logistics services provider Torque is proving its fitness to tackle marathon distances by helping women’s sports clothing retailer Sweaty Betty expand into the US.
Greater traceability
Importer of South East Asian food brands, Manning Impex, has implemented the Access Delta warehouse management system from Access Group.
Campaign cleans up at awards
An anti-lorry and car litter campaign, jointly spearheaded by European palletised freight network Pall-Ex, has been named as best overall project at the annual Keep Britain Tidy Network Awards
Chains for the beverage industry
Chain specialist iwis has introduced hardened, wear-resistant stainless steel flat top chains which are used, for example, for conveying bottle crates and returnable bottles. The new chains are surface-hardened with a special process to reduce wear and maintenance costs.
SSI Schaefer supports local charity
Adam Goddard, project engineer at SSI Schaefer based in Andover, gave up his valuable time over a weekend to install racking and shelving donated by SSI Schaefer to the Andover Trees United community group.
Improved profits
Yorkshire-based Potter Logistics has posted its financial results for the year ending April 2013.
Bumper Christmas forecast
Indicating a strong Christmas and demonstrating the continued strength of the ecommerce market in the UK, NetDespatch is reporting an unprecedented 15% rise in parcel delivery for online shoppers over the past month.
Plastic-based A frame
Cargopak reports that its plastic-based nesting A frame roll containers are enjoying continued market success, with uptake of the product continuing to gather pace since the product was introduced in 2009.
Contact ploughs on for winter
Contact Attachments has been manufacturing high quality forklift mounted snow ploughs for more than 40 years, for clients ranging from leading supermarkets and borough councils, right through to premiership football clubs.
Salt spreader
To help customers cope with freezing conditions expected in the forthcoming months, Contact Attachments designs and manufactures a selection of salt gritters and spreaders.
Asset management
British Red Cross and its technology partners AIDC Solutions and TransitionWorks have developed a new system designed to streamline and improve the management of over 5000 Red Cross assets in the field, including laptop computers, satellite phones, GPS locators, surveying equipment and vehicles used in multiple humanitarian aid projects worldwide.
Plastic based A-Frame finds favour
Cargopak’s plastic based nesting A-Frame roll containers are enjoying continued market success.
Storage & picking
SSI Schaefer has been working with orthopaedics specialist, Össur UK, to design and install efficient storage and material handling solutions in its new Stockport warehousing facility.
Star performance
The UK’s largest cold storage and logistics company, Yearsley Logistics has invested in a bespoke high efficiency cooling system from Star Refrigeration as part of an expansion to cold storage facilities at its flagship distribution centre in Lancashire.
