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Yankee Candle boosts efficiency with new picking system from SSI Schaefer.
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Marstons erects additional storage to improve production efficiency
Coca-Cola Amatil, Coca-Cola’s principal licensee in Australia, has consolidated its New South Wales warehousing operations and improved efficiency thanks to an automated storage, transport and staging system designed by Swisslog.
As the dark clouds begin to part companies are
redoubling their efforts to come back fighting fitter and
stronger – is now the time to invest in warehouse
automation? Lucy Tesseras investigates
Maspex Wadowice Group, the Polish food and drink manufacturer, has increased storage and handling capabilities at its factory in Tychy, Poland.
Could the pallet networks be the big winners from
the recession? Certainly, they are recovering fast, says Nick Allen, and seem set to resume their march for growth spurred on by continuing customer demand for smaller, more frequent deliveries.
TNT has deployed an automatic measuring system to capture the dimensions, weight and ID of pallets passing through its hubs in France.
Sometimes the cost of going green can seem prohibitive – certainly it is going to take time for the cost of some new technologies to come down. But,
says Malory Davies, there are plenty of measures that actually save money.
