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PJH Group, which distributes bathrooms, kitchens and appliances to the home improvement market, has placed a £150,000 order with Solarsoft Business Systems for new voice picking software and Psion Teklogix WORKABOUT PRO units.

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

International cheese and nutritional ingredients group, Glanbia, has seen picking accuracy levels shoot up to 100 per cent, since installing a voice-directed order picking system at two warehouses and two manufacturing plants in Ireland.

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

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.

FP International has launched two environmentally friendly packaging lines.

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.

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

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.