Head to toe menswear
From a baseball cap style bumpcap to 10 new styles of safety footwear, Workwear brand Dickies has menswear covered from head to toe.
Cold store extension
After successfully completing a £6.7m cold store and packing hall for frozen fruit and vegetable specialist Ardo in 2009, Chalcroft was called upon in late 2013 to partner the Kent-based business on the design and build of a cold store extension to the facility.
Take the right line
With warehouse and facilities managers under pressure to improve efficiency whilst maintaining a safe environment, often floor markings are seen as an unnecessary cost and therefore tape or cheap spray lines are applied.
Colour coded gloves
In order to help reduce hand injuries, TraffiGlove has provided eight different styles of its safety gloves to Tractor manufacturer, Case New Holland for use by 450 workers at its Basildon, Essex manufacturing base.
Enhanced delivery
Love Sofas has implemented the fleXipod ePOD Solution. The paperless fleXipod system allows Love Sofas to enhance the customer experience, facilitating a quicker and simpler transaction for the customer at the point of delivery.
Supporting growth
Six years of growth on from implementing the the MACS warehouse management system (MACSwms), operations at Chiltern Cold Storage continue to be supported by MACS.
Flexi celebrates 25 years
As a celebration to mark the 25th anniversary of the development of the original Flexi Articulated truck concept, Narrow Aisle recently hosted a series of distributor open days at its UK manufacturing plant.
Corner & edge protection
Catering for a range of industries including furniture, antiques, fulfilment, and logistics, Kite Packaging has added a comprehensive range of Nomafoam foam corner and edge protection to its website.
Energy efficient alternative
Venture Lighting has partnered with Hertz Electrical Distribution to supply over 250 of its latest LED technology luminaires to one of the largest electrical management specialists in the UK.
Quick top-up
The attributes of the Hawker XFC batteries from EnerSys are proving ideally suited to its Diversey Care’s TASKI scrubber driers, which are designed to provide contract cleaning and in-house cleaning teams with high performance, reliability and availability. Reduced energy consumption and simpler deployment of the batteries also fitted well with objectives to make cleaning operations simpler, less expensive and more sustainable.
Increased capacity palletising robots
Capable of operating 2050 cycles per hour with a 130kg payload is the claim of Kawasaki Robotics for its new CP range of palletising robots. Three new models make up the CP range, offering maximum payloads of 180, 300 and 500kg.
Committed to reducing collisions
One hundred organisations and individual construction projects have now shown their commitment to improving the safety of vulnerable road users through becoming CLOCS Champions, just two years after the initiative was launched. With this number continuing to rise fast, the need to treat on-road safety with the same importance as on-site safety is quickly being recognised across the construction industry.
Low cost label applicator
New from Toshiba TEC is a low cost automatic label print and application system that combines high performance and cost effectiveness, the APLEX4.
Radiant tube heaters
Powrmatic has supplied 17 radiant tube heaters to provide space heating in a large open plan assembly area at the Doreset facility of specialist in the design, manufacture, distribution and sourcing of medical furniture and equipment, Hospital Metalcraft.
Bespoke packaging solution
For those looking for a bespoke solution to a packaging problem, Packaging ONE offers the a free packaging design service.
Modular flooring
Wearwell’s Ergodeck is an ergonomic modular flooring system – it was engineered with the evolving workplace in mind and can be used to cover large workspaces or custom work cells where traditional matting products fail.
Royal Mail invests in 76,000 Zebra TC75 handhelds
A supplier selection process led by BT picked out Zebra.
Doosan revamps lower capacity electric forklifts
The forklifts feature redesigned masts to improve visibility and a control system protected to IP65 as standard.
International trade accolade
CRM Logistics has won the Queens Award for Enterprise in International Trade. The company has increased sales by almost 600% in the last 5 years to international companies by offering freight, transport and warehouse services at the highest level working in partnership with some very high profile
High efficiency LED lighting
Cost reduction specialist BIS Group has supplied a range of high efficiency LED luminaires from Carbon8lighting for use in a warehouse and for exterior lighting at Cooper Tire & Rubber Company Europe’s 33 acre site in Wiltshire
