Some 800,000 professional drivers will be affected by the European Union-wide Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) directive, which comes into force for lorry drivers from 10th September. Although aimed at raising the skills of professional driver

Estonia plans to turn hundreds of hectares land in Ida-Virumaa into an industrial park.

Electrical retailer Maplin recently moved to a 200,000 sq ft distribution centre atManvers, close to Rotherham.

MG sports cars are once again in production at Longbridge in Birmingham, and to increase the pick rate of small components in the company’s logistics centre, MG has chosen Linpac Storage Systems to design and install a new range of dynamic carton live she

SSI Schaefer has completed a 40-metre tall, rack-supported high bay warehouse production, storage and distribution facility in Fredericia, Denmark, for brewing giant Carlsberg. The centre has 76,000 pallet storage positions, an integrated pallet conveyor

Plastic laminates supplier Payne Worldwide has increased stockholding with 100 per cent selectivity and reduced product damage with a tailored system from The Storage Equipment Centre.

Thorntons reported a cost saving of £100,000 in the
first year of installing a warehouse management
system from Manhattan Associates at its 140,000 sq
ft warehouse in Alfreton, Derbyshire.

Bart Spices relocated to a 30,000 sq ft warehouse and implemented a WMS which could cope better with
its expanding volumes.

Consumer packaging company Huhtamaki UK opted for a software-as-a-service WMS system from Snapfulfil, for its three southern UK warehouses. Each site went live with the systemsimultaneously and the result was a cost saving of £80,000 in the first year. Fu

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