Specialist video-game retailer Game Stores chose Vanderlande’s cross-belt sorter to help boost productivity by making picking operations faster, more flexible and accurate.
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SSI Schaefer says the cold store industry lags behind other market leaders when it comes to warehouse systems and logistics. While capacities increase, the average degree of use in most warehouses is 75 per cent.
Knapp UK has promoted former business development director David James to the role of managing director, taking over from founder Mike Cogger who is set to retire in 2009.
SDI Group, which designs, builds and supports integrated materials handling solutions for international retail, wholesale, fulfilment and e-commerce distribution operations, has bought four companies from PEP Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH in Germany for 2.
Samsung has taken its new material handling system for small electronics and spare parts into operation in its new DC in Breda, the Netherlands.
Product recognition technology from Knapp has helped Europe’s largest independent home entertainment specialist, S Gold & Sons, to improve the availability of goods for picking.
Knapp UK is opening a service centre at Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire to meet the needs of its growing service operations.
Conveyor Systems was awarded the contract to supply a storage and handling system, which included a spiral conveyor belt to transfer products to/from a mezzanine floor for the new NHS national distribution centre in Scotland.
British gas is seeing dramatic increases in throughput and capacity, as well as major manpower savings at its new £17 million distribution centre for gas and electrical appliance spare parts in Leicester.
The Automated Material Handling Systems Association (AMHSA) has pulled together some of the industry’s top speakers for its first ever symposium.
