Industrial Plant & Equipment

Astec provides missing link at speciality food company

Honeytop Speciality Foods,
manufacturer of various
flatbreads asked Astec
Conveyors to design and manufacture
a conveying system to integrate
packaging equipment, taking
discharged product from flow
wrappers in the pro

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Quick to sort

Cardboard boxes, flat or chine based
tote bins, bags, sacks and packets –
the new Transnorm SmartSort can
divide a single infeed line into two or
three discharge lines with no loss of
throughput.

With a linear speed o

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New system fashioned for Aurora

Dürkopp Fördertechnik has added a
second extension to the system it
installed for Aurora Fashions at its
central distribution centre near
Oxford that can store about 1.5m
garments.

The contract includes a two-tier
ha

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Speedy shopping

Excel Automation is helping Asda
change the way it picks online
grocery orders at its ‘Home Shopping
Centre’ near Leeds.

An Excel belt and roller conveyor
system, transfers merchandise from a
mezzanine to a despatch p

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Investing in UK manufacturing

Dawson Shanahan, supplier
of cold formed and machined
components, is investing over
£0.75m in new grinding and
degreasing technology at its
factory in Potters Bar. The
investment is part of a long
term expansion progra

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Lands End by truck

A Jungheinrich forklift truck has
been driven between John O’Groats
and Land’s End, raising more than
£15,000 for Cancer Research in the
process. The diesel-powered counter-
balanced hydrostatic truck from the
Jungheinr

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Rugged yet smooth

Crown believes its new WT 3000
Series pallet truck has all the qualities
a vehicle needs to work day in, day
out in punishing conditions.

Analysing the results of onsite
customer research, the Crown team
identified th

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Minute-by-minute control of fleet

A new asset management tool from Briggs Equipment is
designed to give managers control over their lift truck fleets
and help promote optimum safety and efficiency.Simon
Duddy, editor of IPE’s sister publication – Handling

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Battery control

PowerNet, a software system from
EnerSys, offers fleet management of
all lead acid battery technologies. By
scheduling charging to avoid costly
spikes in electricity demand and by
ensuring correct rotation of batteries,

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Special attachment

Contact Attachments has designed
and supplied one of its specialist
products to Cargotec in Ireland. It
will be supplied with a Hiab Moffett
truck-mounted forklift and is for a
customer in Portugal.

The four-fork atta

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