Handling and Storing
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Unbroken cold chain

As demand for chilled products and pharmaceutical drugs increases, so too does the requirement for vehicle loading times to be reduced. Easilift Loading Systems believes the best solution for temperature control at busy distribution centres is the installation of specialised automatic docking systems.

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Workplace safety: Time to show your hand

The sheer number of life-changing injuries sustained by pedestrians in warehouse truck accidents is pretty damning. Mentor FLT Training managing director, Stuart Taylor, explains how a simple hand gesture could change all that – and save life and limb 

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Ink for oily applications

Linx Printing Technologies has widened its range of specialist inks with the introduction of a new formula that meets the challenges of coding onto oily surfaces.

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Evolving WMS keeps firm in good health

Since implementing an Empirica warehouse management system (WMS) from Chess Logistics Technology a decade ago, medical and surgical consumables supplier Vygon has introduced refinements that have boosted warehouse efficiency and productivity and increased throughput volumes and accuracy

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Factory nears completion

Combilift, manufacturer of 4-way forklifts and other innovative handling solutions, is set to double its output in the next few years as its new factory nears completion.

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TCO savings

J D Neuhaus (JDN) hoist and crane material handling solutions deliver optimum performance and are said to offer the best Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in its class.

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Lift truck visibility in the smart port

To improve the awareness of lift truck drivers in terminals Hyster is exploring and developing an increased range of options for truck-to-truck, truck-to-object and truck-to-pedestrian detection systems.  Combined with cameras, telematics and other technologies, ‘connected’ Hyster fleets are helping to deliver greater productivity and visibility for the smart ports of tomorrow, explains Ed Stilwell, functional system leader for Hyster

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Tape range expanded

The latest launch in the Kite range comes as an extension to their existing tape range. The three new tapes offer a range of benefits.

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Loading streamlined

Jones Interiors, an international textiles and soft furnishings company, has streamlined loading efficiencies at its Nottingham warehouse, adding a bespoke loading platform designed and manufactured by Thorworld Industries, and supplied by Thorworld agent, James Corfield of Darmax UK.

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Logistics and the robotics revolution

Robots have always been considered as futuristic. The reality is, they are entering the here-and-now in a significant and transformative way – and nowhere more so than in the modern warehouse, as Simon Cooper, business solutions sales director, Dematic Northern Europe, explains

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