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Cargotec has customised an order of seven Kalmar reachstackers to improve pipe handling for Norwegian logistics firm NorSea Group.

Business secretary Lord Mandelson has unveiled ambitious plans to make the West Midlands a leader in low carbon technologies which will have significant supply chain implications.

One e-commerce retailer has found strong customer support for moving over to a more environmentally friendly box filler.

Excel Automation has completed all four phases of a contract to upgrade the Chivas Brothers’ palletisation and automatic dispatch facility in Dumbarton.

FP International has launched two environmentally friendly packaging lines.

Over the past few years the growth of globalisation has challenged logisticians to deal with the massive changes of moving from local to international supply chains.

Czech automotive packaging specialist Omnipack is using ARPRO expanded polypropylene to produce up to 15,000 dunnage trays a year for the country’s automotive industry.

Smurfit Kappa developed the pack, which uses a cartridge body that can be cut away and recycled with domestic collections and a nozzle and plunger made from biodegradable plastics.

It only existed in the commercial arena for two decades but already it’s hard to imagine life without the internet. Networking giant Cisco Systems has played a key role in its development, and one of its top visionaries Mawgan Wilkins talks to Jessica Da