Port of Felixstowe is Britain’s biggest and busiest container port in the UK, and one of the largest in Europe. Privately owned and handling more than 3.7 million TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units), the port welcomes approximately 3000 ships each year, including the largest container vessels afloat today.
Following a rigorous assessment of its health and safety policies and practices, The Automated Technology Group has been awarded Safecontractor status.
New data-logging handheld thermometers from The IMC Group make sophisticated food monitoring simple, fast, and affordable.
A versatile Citizen CLS700 is producing high volumes of labels on three types of media quickly, simply and cost effectively for Virgin Atlantic.
Linde Material Handling has made the shortlist in all four categories it entered in this year’s FLTA Awards. The awards represent the industry’s foremost recognition of engineering and design excellence.
Hörmann’s high-speed folding curtain for large openings, the V9012L Stacking, is opened via a belt drive system that folds the curtain into the lintel area.
Bott recently played host to a replica of Bloodhound’s supersonic car, giving local primary school children the opportunity to tour the Bott facility, followed by the chance to emulate the Bloodhound team and create a balloon powered car to compete in a race.
Derbyshire-based international freight forwarding, mail, logistics and courier specialist, Spatial Global has been appointed by fine bone china designer Lou Rota London to handle all its UK and international e-commerce fulfilment and freight forwarding.
Hot on the heels of the recent re-launch of its Trucare remote service package, Konecranes has developed a Crane Reliability Study (CRS).
The new SICK W2S family delivers powerful sub-miniature photoelectric positioning sensing for today’s difficult packaging materials – even matt black. The slim housing allows convenient mounting within tight spaces demanded by compact machinery.
Southampton based Meachers Global Logistics has invested more than £100,000 in a comprehensive staff training programme for its drivers and office based support team.
The Mitsubishi EDiA EX 2.5 to 3.5t electric counterbalance has been shortlisted for the Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) Annual Awards for Excellence in the Innovation category.
Mosca has enhanced its fully automated tandem machine for cross strapping, the SoniXs TAI-6, with the introduction of two models – Base and Pro – both of which utilise the company’s ultrasonic technology to provide reliable, quick and secure cross strapping for high throughput industries such as print and logistics. The machines offer safe operation and ease of use, with different levels of standard features to meet individual user requirements.
Transdek is exhibiting its Double Deck Urban Eco Trailer (DUET) at the Quiet Cities Global Summit, Twickenham Stadium, London, 25 – 26 November 2014.
SSI Schaefer has advanced its plastic container offering with new technology in design, moulding and materials.
The component division of a leading German automobile manufacturer has awarded Conveyor Systems Ltd a contract to improve the efficiency in transferring car wheel assemblies between ground and mezzanine floor levels.
Specialist in the supply of materials handling equipment and mobile work lifters, Lift Safe, has lessened the load in the Coventry manufacturing plant of Mission Foods, a leading manufacturer of tortilla wraps and flat breads.
A bespoke overhead conveyor, designed and manufactured by LB Foster Materials Handling, has been installed into the new paint processing plant of sign supplier and manufacturer, SignFab UK. Automating the plant has enabled SignFab to have the ability to double its production capacity.
Safety signs, pipe marking, accurate chemicals labelling, LEAN and 5s initiatives all contribute to a safer working environment.
Vitronic and express delivery specialist, TNT, have entered into a long-term global partnership to equip hubs, gateways and service centers with the latest machine vision technology for data capture of all transported items.
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