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Furniture maker Alphason Designs consolidated its warehouse and manufacturing operations into one enlarged facility in Wigan, choosing Linpac Storage Systems to move existing equipment from a nearby site, and to provide additional racking to cope with the

Wyko Industrial Services and Chess Logistics Technology have worked together to create an order picking system that has integrated an automated storage and retrieval system, laser-highlighted picking equipment and RF terminals with Chess’s Empirica WMS. T

Audi’s largest Nordic sales and service unit, Din Bil Sverige, located in Gothenburg, Sweden, has installed a Constructor Tornado system in its workshop for the storage of its mechanics’ tools.

Still’s first fully-automated version of the FM-X reach truck is available in six different load-bearing capacities ranging from one to 2.5 tonnes.

Last year Crown unveiled its ESR 5000 range, which comprises two models – the standard 5000, with load capacities of 1.4, 1.6, and two tonnes – and the S class, with 1.6 and two tonne load capacities. Both have lift heights of up to 12m.

A flurry of reach truck redesigns unveiled last year has made 2008 a period of significant innovation. JESSICA DAVIES looks at the latest technologies.

Deutsche Post World Net says it has beaten its profit target for 2008 with full year underlying EBIT of £2.2 billion (2.4 bn euros).

Morrisons has signed a contract with Zetes, worth more than £6 million, to provide it with one of the UK’s biggest voice directed picking installations.