Yorkshire and Humber looks set to become the centre of Europe’s electronic tagging industry by becoming the UK’s leading centre in the region. The development is part of a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) initiative to create a network
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Alpha Airport Services has continued its acquisition of Volvo FL 18-tonne aircraft high-loaders with a further six vehicles, bringing the total to 27. Based at airports around the UK and supplied by the Avonmouth depot of Volvo Truck & Bus (South),
Paragon Foods is using compact live storage at its new site at Doncaster to keep control of costs in the frozen and chilled facility while accommodating future growth. Supplied by BITO Storage Systems, the new system provides compact live
Halewood International, the alcoholic drinks producer, shipper and supplier, has taken on four Renault Premium 420.26 dCi 6×2 rigids for its distribution requirements throughout the UK. The vehicles, which feature Privilege cabs, replace four Volvo
A 50% increase in storage space has resulted from street furniture supplier Furnitubes’ investment in a Translift Engineering articulating Bendi forklift truck at its newly-leased warehouse than was feasible at its last Sittingbourne premi
The latest 32 vehicles to join homecare equipment supplier Medequip’s 100-plus fleet have all been lined and laminated by bodybuilder GRP Westbury. The vehicles – 20 Ford Transits and 12 Citroen Relay vans – carry community equipment, covering both
An adjustable pallet racking solution at Widdowsons’ new warehouse in Glenfield, Leicestershire, has doubled storage capacity for the integrated logistics provider.
Thamesport (London) is using seven new Terberg terminal tractors, from UK dealer Transtec Equipment, in addition to the four that arrived at the port in May. A further eight are due for delivery to the Medway facility in March 2005, completing the
Cyklop UK has a new plastic strap dispenser capable of automatically applying polypropylene or polyester strap around palletised goods using a strap guide system.
LXE has introduced two new rugged vehicle-mounted computers – the half-screen VX6 and the full-screen VX7 (pictured). Both units are based on the Intel XScale processor and on the Microsoft Windows CE .NET operating system. The VX6 and VX7 enables
