Serving up cool savings
Energy efficient lighting specialist Lutterworth Ecolighting has completed a total lighting refurbishment for Blakemore Food Service in Wakefield, which is saving the national foodservice wholesaler over £45,000 a year.
High speed hooding
Available through Gordian Strapping, Italian manufacturerOMS S.p.A. has launched a new, high-speed stretch hooding machine – the IS45.
UK investment
Increasing demand for TydenBrooks security seals across a diverse range of applications throughout Europe has led to a £250,000 investment in new production equipment at the Group’s European logistics centre in Worcester.
Ensures material flow
At stillage manufacturer, JS Burgess Engineering, the role of the sideloader is pivotal: ensuring raw material flow at the factory is as efficient as possible. So when the Derbyshire-based firm was looking to replace its incumbent side loader, after consulting with its local material handling equipment dealer, it decided to switch its sideloader replacement programme to Baumann for the first time.
Container handler order
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has gained an order from DP World for seven empty container handlers to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Composite firewall systems
ISD Solutions, a specialist in warehouse and firewall construction, has been successfully installing composite firewall systems to protect buildings and contents for over 15 years.
Outstanding leadership
Out of the country’s best employee owned companies, Loadhog, the re-usable transit packaging innovator, and another Sheffield company lifted two of only seven national accolades in the 2013 Philip Baxendale Awards – the UK’s only awards for the employee owned sector, working in conjunction with the Employee Ownership Association.
Follow-up order
Vitronic Machine Vision has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to automate the manual processing of flats and small parcels from a large parcel and post customer.
Oven ready
Supplier of packaging equipment for the whole fresh bird wrapping market, Ulma Packaging has in conjunction with a major industry processor launched a new packaging format for poultry that offers attractive presentation, product protection and exceptional hygiene standards by removing human contact with the uncooked item, from the supermarket shelf to oven.
New fleet puchase
Independent logistics services provider, Meachers Global Logistics is purchasing seven new tractor units and 24 new trailers. The major investment by the Southampton based business, will provide significantly increased capacity to supply its growing operation.
Additional 2V batteries
Providing more choice and greater flexibility to specify plug-and-play power sources that can be charged for as long and as often as required to support total operational autonomy, EnerSys has extended its range of Hawker XFC batteries with 2V cells.
Push button safety covers
Designed to increase safety during machine maintenance, the new Twist and Secure safety solution from Brady temporarily prevents access to push buttons or emergency stop buttons.
Cloud-based WMS
Within eight weeks of the initial enquiry, Optima has implemented Optimiser – a new, cutting edge cloud-based warehouse management system – for the Border Group, which operates modern warehouses with a 15,000 pallet capacity near Newport, Gwent.
Robust platform for growth
Leading WMS software supplier, MACS Software, has recently received an order from Midlands-based ICS Distribution for MACSwms to enhance its existing warehouse management operations.
Better business management
Warehouse management systems supplier, MACS Software, is using Orbis Task Centre to link its MACSwms with SAP Business One. The result is an integrated system said to provide a best of breed approach to business and warehouse management.
MACS Software links up with multichannel developer
WMS specialist MACS Software has announced a partnership agreement with multichannel eCommerce software developer Linn Systems, the company behind the Linnworks business automation solution.
Space saving design
When Thomas Hardy installed a new shrinkwrapper to handle a wide range of bottles/packaging, the company approached Walsall Engineering to help overcome space issues by coming up with the optimum design solution to modify the bottle conveyors feeding the new machine.
Sheffield manufacturer kits out warehouse with Manitou MHE
The Foodservice Equipment division of Manitowoc was keen to run its factory warehouse as efficiently as possible and approached Manitou for help.
Less energy than a hair dryer
The company’s latest SoniXs Pallet Press models from strapping specialist Mosca use less energy than a domestic hair dryer and, as a result, are branded with the company’s ‘GET Inside’ (Green Efficient Technology) logo, which indicates that the machines benefit from more efficient energy consumption. The ‘GET Inside’ branding is visible on all of the machines that use SoniXs and Direct Drive technology.
Retain & maintain
Loading and unloading specialist Thorworld Industries has reported excellent growth in its dedicated service division during 2013, citing the current increasing preference of its customers to maintain and retain, rather than replace, loading bay equipment.
