Warehouse expansion
Work to create new warehouse facilities for Import Services in Southampton is on schedule for a summer opening following the traditional topping-out ceremony.
RFID asset management
Barcode and RFID solutions specialist, Inotec, is upgrading its UK operations to support growth and diversification with the installation of an RFID asset management system from software and engineering company Red Ledge.
Reduced battery handling
Safe handling is an increasingly important factor when it comes to specifying batteries for lift trucks and other motive power applications.
Flexible battery chargers
The new Hawker LifeTech Modular and Hawker Life IQ Modular high-frequency battery chargers from EnerSys deliver increased flexibility, efficiency and reliability with reduced downtime, costs and carbon footprint across a wide range of materials handling, automatic guided vehicle and motive power applications.
Key account manager
Woodway UK has appointed Jess Le Page as key account manager. Le Page has over five years’ experience in the packaging industry.
Total measuring & calibration
The new Testo 870 Thermal Imaging Camera has been designed in co-operation with building and heating contractors, service engineers and facilities maintenance specialists.
Manufacturer unveils plan for automated DC
Control and automation technology manufacturer FESTO will open a 161,500 sq ft production, service and logistics centre in the USA in 2015.
Convenient security
Offering a comprehensive range of innovative products including combination padlocks, key padlocks, locker locks, safety lockout and key storage solutions, Securikey is the largest supplier of Master Lock products to the UK security market.
Engineering director
As part of its continued drive to bring the latest technology and user performance to compact construction equipment worldwide, leading global solutions provider, Terex Construction, has appointment Eric Kuimjian to the role of engineering director.
Premium pallet wrapper
IBIS Packaging is the exclusive official UK Agent for the C-one nano premium pallet wrapper. C-one pallet wrappers are gaining market share quickly in Europe. Its Auto cut-off means the operators don’t need knives or need to wait to cut off the film after the wrapping cycle.
Building on economic recovery
Portakabin reports that in the last nine months the upturn in UK manufacturing has resulted in a 19% rise in orders from the manufacturing sector for its modular buildings.
Integrate IT & hammer inefficiency
Improving manufacturing efficiency is a top challenge for nearly half of the companies that responded to a Supply Chain Management Survey carried out for Access. Yet the survey also finds that even more admit that their supporting IT isn’t up to the task. Access has launched a new white paper on the issue, titled: ‘Integrate IT & hammer inefficiency’.
Appointments support growth plans
Quartix has announced two further appointments to the board of Quartix Holdings: Paul Boughton and Jim Warwick join the company as non-executive directors.
MBE for manual handling expert
Davy Snowdon, founder and managing director of Oxfordshire-based Pristine Condition, has been awarded an MBE for the business’s contribution to health and safety awareness and training in industries across the length and breadth of the country, and the significant reduction in workplace accidents as a direct result of their efforts.
Curtiss-Wright appoints Rekarma
Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s Industrial division has announced the strengthening of its global distribution network for the Penny + Giles and PG Drives Technology brands, with the appointment of Turkish distributor Rekarma A.S.
Guidance for the safe use of lifting equipment
The LEEA (Lifting Equipment Engineers Association) has launched the eighth edition of its authoritative Code of Practice for the Safe Use of Lifting Equipment (COPSULE).
Radio controlled hoists
EDF’s Durance Verdon hydroelectricity basin consists of 17 dams and 30 power stations with a total installed capacity of 2200MW and production of 6.5 billion kWh. Verlinde hoists are installed at all plants and have to meet very specific operating conditions.
WMS supports growth
On Logistics, a third party logistics (3PL) provider, has implemented a sophisticated warehouse management system (WMS) from Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced) as it seeks to more than double its turnover in just three years. On Logistics, which will open its third warehouse later this year, will also use Advanced’s customer billing module.
Partner Logistics keeps its cool
Partner Logistics provides state-of-the-art, highly automated warehousing, primarily for frozen foods. It currently operates six large-scale deep freeze warehouses – two in the UK (of which one is the UK’s largest), three in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.
