Rogers Chapman, acting for Henry Schein, has acquired a 2,232sq m warehouse representing Units 5 & 6, Medway Distribution Centre in Gillingham, Kent at a rent of £4.75 per sq ft. The new facility will accommodate the tenant’s planned growth and expansi

Another year is ending and a new one rapidly approaches, and with it new challenges which UK industry must overcome if there is to be any chance of a feel good factor in the global supply chain.

As globalisation marches on, we are increasingly comfortable carrying out business activities without the concern of national boundaries. Yet, although widening the scope of opportunities and opening up new horizons, the international marketplace does thr

Royal Mail’s road distribution hub on the DIRFT complex near Daventry features Hawker batteries and chargers to ensure the lift truck fleet there works round-the-clock. The 38-acre facility handles some 45 million letters and packets a day from

WHS Halo, one of the UK’s biggest PVC-U extruders for the window industry, has taken delivery of six multi-directional sideloaders from Sidetracker Engineering for its national distribution centre near Birmingham. The order is worth £300,0

In its ten-year transport policy introduced in 2000, the Government called for an 80% increase in rail freight by 2010 to help ease worsening traffic congestion on Britain’s roads and motorways. The shift from road to rail by 2002 showed a less than encou

Robert Bosch has chosen the LeanTek modular system in a project to dramatically reduce stock levels within the final assembly area at its Cardiff plant. The introduction of bespoke LeanTek live storage racks has resulted in a 58% reduction

Chocolate is considered by many as the ultimate “pleasure food”. In the US alone, more than $13Bn is spent annually on chocolate – with the average American consuming about 12 pounds of it each year, according to Real Simple Magazine. No one understands

Abitibi Consolidated Group subsidiary Bridgewater Paper Mill (BPM) has replaced most of the materials handling equipment at its Ellesmere Port facility with Linde products to “consistently sustain maximum efficiency”.

A new £100M growth fund to help drive forward a vision for the economy of the North of England was launched in September by the three Northern Regional Development Agencies (One Northeast, Yorkshire Forwards and the Northwest Development Agency). The grow