On the day Palletforce cut the red tape on its £30 million, 380,000 sq ft hub in Burton-on-Trent it saw, for the first time, the result of nearly two years’ worth of careful planning.
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Paragon and Isotrak have completed the “transport efficiency jigsaw” in a project for Sainsbury’s by combining the capabilities of the former’s routeing, scheduling and resource optimisation software with the latter’s real-time transport execution and
Warehouse and distribution property specialist sbh has delivered a turn-key service for Culina Logistics at its purpose-built 190,000 sq ft multi-temperature distribution centre in Haverhill, Suffolk.
More than 150,000 containers are now travelling around Europe carrying an RFID tag, as a result of a project by CHEP in association with suppliers Microsoft, Infosys and RF Identics.
Technology services provider Telent chose Jungheinrich to supply it with a more flexible materials handling and storage system for its 80,000 sq ft central contract marshalling centre in Coventry.
Faber Music Distribution – one of Europe’s largest music distributors and a subsidiary of music publisher Faber Music Ltd – has implemented a voice picking system from Zetes at its Essex-based distribution centre, to help it deal with the 46,000 order lin
Denmark’s largest retail group Dansk Supermarked Gruppen has placed an order with Dematic to implement its Order Assembly system to consolidate the operations of its expanding general merchandise brands and reduce logistics costs.
James Clark, secretary general of BITA, highlights the importance of new electrical technologies such as high frequency battery chargers. “They use less mains energy than conventional chargers, and permit time-efficient ‘opportunity charging’ over breaks.
Boots.com has deployed a TGW carton transport and sorting system that links the delivery packing stations with the dispatch area at its Birmingham hub.
Plant and Electrical has increased the storage density at its new warehouse in Dublin by 50 per cent with an Aisle-Master electric, articulated forklift.
