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Franklin Silencers, the designer, manufacturer and supplier of industrial silencers, has upgraded the materials handling equipment at its Northamptonshire factory with used forklift trucks from Jungheinrich’s Ready to Go range.

Honeywell has introduced two new versions of its 3800g linear barcode scanner, which it hopes will expand customers’ ability to read specialised barcodes, particularly in electronics and manufacturing.

West Midlands stockholder The Metal Centre has doubled hourly pick rates, from 15 to 30 per hour with the same manpower, as a result of moving to Unicompact systems supplied by Kasto from a manual handling system using conventional racking and fork lift t

In addition to leasing Ceva an 80,000 sq ft warehouse complex in Daventry, Nene Group has fitted out the warehouse with racking and ancillary products supplied through Nene’s Rentarack rack rental scheme.

While some sectors of the economy have wobbled in recent months, there is still an air of confidence in the European automation market with strong performances and healthy order books.

Rapidly changing supply chain strategies are having their impact on how companies plan their storage requirements. With demands for higher throughputs at the same time as higher capacities, the pressures have never been greater to get the racking right, r