There is lots of interest in locating to rail-connected terminals, but the rail freight services need to be more user-friendly.
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Branston, the potato buyer, packer and distributor, has installed Union Industries’ 4.5 metre high Bulldoor at the hub of a loading bay at its factory in Ilminster, Somerset.
Getting the right equipment and systems in place in the loading bay is critical, not just to efficiency, but also to safe warehouse operation.
Universal Silencer reckons it has increased the efficiency of loading and unloading and enhanced safety at its Hinckley warehouse with a new modular loading platform system from Thorworld.
Fruit and vegetable wholesaler Wealmoor has rebuilt its factory at Atherstone on Stour following a major fire two years ago and chose Stertil Stokvis to install 12 new loading docks in a £120,000 project.
The TIC Retail Accessories group has chosen a double deck scissor lift from Easilift to boost loading and unloading efficiency.
Widdowson has won a contract for the UK palletised distribution of Pearson Education and Penguin books
UK take-up of industrial property fell 15 per cent in the second quarter, according to DTZ’s Research UK Property Times Industrial market report. However, take-up in the West Midlands increased 15 per cent
Dematic has signed an agreement to buy North American material handling company, HK Systems.
Barloworld, the Hyster distributor, says it is seeing fewer breakdowns, faster engineer response times and less waste as a result of its Six Sigma continuous improvement programme
