Handling and Storing
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Conveyors: Catering for food applications

Nercon Engineering has developed a set of universal standards to assess the conveying needs of specific areas within a food manufacturing facility, defining them with six distinct classifications. Steve Schiedemeyer, director of engineering, Nercon Engineering & Manufacturing, Inc, explains more

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Sandbags handled with ease

Following the flooding in northern England, the Environment Agency in Somerset has purchased Contact Attachments’ Forklift Bag Handler, which will enable it to handle large sandbags more easily.

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Space saving solution

Vehicle lighting manufacturer Britax PMG has reduced the footprint of a major assembly area at its factory by 75% using lean manufacturing equipment from The Tube & Bracket Company. New workstations created using modular components have replaced conventional benches.

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Boost to productivity

Currently, HLC Wood Products produces 200,000 wooden pallets a week – all of which need handling. To keep up with demand, the company has introduced 13 new Mitsubishi forklift trucks supplied by Eastern Forklifts – bringing the firm’s fleet to 34.

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Pedestrian reach stacker

Combilift’s Combi-WR Walkie Reach pedestrian reach stacker combines advanced ergonomics and features such as a pantograph reach, side shift and tilting fork carriage to ensure a safe working environment for both the operator and other personnel in the vicinity.

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Behavioural training: Changing attitudes

Health and safety can sometimes be seen as annoying bureaucracy, but there’s no getting away from it: lift truck accidents can and often do result in life-changing, devastating consequences. Here Stuart Taylor, MD of Mentor Training, discusses behavioural training and how it is transforming attitudes to lift truck safety 

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Fast-build WMS development tool

Red Ledge chose the IntraLogistex show to publicly launch the latest version of its Red Ledge CORE fast-build warehouse management system development tool which, it says, speeds the development of WMS and other logical, event-driven systems using a set of fast-build, standard libraries.

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