Soya milk products manufacturer Alpro has turned to Culina Logistics to provide a complete primary logistics service in the UK. The integrated chilled food and drink supply chain specialist is handling all collections of stock from Alpro’s Belgian manu

Northern Foods has contracted Norprint Labelling Systems to supply more than one million metal detectable labels each year. The new range of aluminium reversed labels, known as Food-Safe labels, have been designed to work within Northern Foo

Inotec UK has introduced a reusable RFID tag which not only carries data but is also programmable to measure temperature profiles or out-of-range extremes over a period of time. The fully programmable KSW TempSense tag records temperatures from -15°C t

Davigel, a major supplier of frozen foods to the French catering industry, has implemented the DLx Dispatcher warehouse management system (WMS) from RedPrairie. Davigel, part of the Nestlé group, stores approximately 150,000 tonnes of goods

Picking errors have been cut by 50% at Whitbread Supply Chain’s depot in Reading following the introduction of wireless voice-controlled order picking and radio data terminals operating with warehouse management systems from Chess Logistics Tech

A theme emerging from the recent Intermodal Transport & Logistics 2004 conference in Copenhagen concerned the capacity of the rail network and intermodal terminals to absorb the growth of international combined transport in forthcoming years. The E

Westler Foods has installed ATMS’ StockTrackPLUS warehouse management system with RF terminals for production receipt and finished goods control. The development follows the decision to take its distribution and warehousing in-house followin

Nissan has had to close three factories in Japan for five days and cut production by 30,000 cars; BP is struggling to find the materials to build its Alaska pipeline; Norwich bus station will be delivered over time and over budget. The world steel crisis

n Nimans has invested in five new Crown Wave work assist vehicles (WAVs) for its 8,370sq m trade counter and national distribution centre at Pendlebury, Manchester. The facility houses a stockholding of 4,000 product lines, worth more than £

n Topps Tiles has enlisted the help of Linde Creighton to provide high quality materials handling equipment capable of withstanding the intensive environment at its central warehouse and distribution centre near Leicester. The facility moves