HANDLING & STORAGE

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work is the main EU reference point for safety and health at work, set up in 1996 by the European Union. Andrew Smith, head of communications at EU-OSHA, presents the Safe Maintenance Campaign.

Standfirst: At the recent CeMat show in Hannover, Germany, there was a considerable amount of interest shown in a power source technology that many believed could revolutionise the forklift truck industry. Gus Whyte, sales director – National Account

Conveyors are one of the most useful and widespread types of equipment in the manufacturing process. Controlling conveyors brings its own challenges and variable-speed AC drives are ideally suited to meeting them. PWE reports.

A new braking roller for carton live storage lanes ensures that both empty and fully-loaded bins and containers stocked in the same lane will move to the picking face at the same speed. The new braking roller, from BITO Storage Systems Ltd, achieves

As companies emerge from the recession and reassess their supply chain models in an attempt to maximise efficiency, warehouse automation is back on the agenda - but the agenda has changed, says Steve Richmond, general manager of Jungheinrich UK Ltd’s

Mark Beauchamp, European Marketing Manager for Citizen Systems Europe, explores the benefits of the latest generation of barcode and label printing technologies particularly in production engineering applications.

The Loadmaster 9000i, the on-board weighing scale for loaders from RDS, now offers the advanced data capture option of a bar code-capable scanner module. The Scanner Module is a software update to the Loadmaster instrument allowing it to be coupled

Exide Technologies has launched a new traction battery rental solution; ‘Power Gap’ offers managers of materials handling equipment fleets the opportunity to bridge any gap they may have in their energy requirements without a major investment in capi

Ireland’s largest independent Temperature control and logistics company, Castlecool, has seen a marked increase in available storage space at its Castleblayney facility since it took delivery of an Aisle-Master articulated forklift.

Based in Gloucester, Downton is one of the South West region's leading distribution and storage companies. The company’s multi-client warehouse in Hardwicke, a small town sandwiched between the M5 and the Severn Estuary, was purpose-built to serve th

High productivity and low cost of ownership will be the two themes of the Jungheinrich stand (stand No: 19 L100 & 142) at IMHX 2010 (16-19 November).

Combilift, the manufacturer of customised 4-way handling equipment has two adjacent stands at this year’s IMHX, the smaller one being a dedicated hospitality area (stands 19K 135 & 130).

Toyota Material Handling UK will be showcasing its strengths at IMHX 2010 – 16-19 November, (stand 20F70) - by showing visitors the company’s products and developments, along with its range of services and solutions.

Standfirst: Coding, marking and labelling have become an essential component of modern production technology.

Impress Group, a leading global producer of metal packaging solutions, for consumer goods, has upgraded the materials handling equipment at its aerosol factory in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, with the acquisition of a fleet of 15 counterbalanced truc

Contract packing specialist Flexpac called upon Atlet to help optimise performance and efficiency in its new warehouse.

DSV is a global transport and logistics specialist with offices in over 50 countries. The company has been testing three of Crown’s new WT 3000 rider pallet trucks at their Neufahrn site near Munich. Neufahrn is a high-volume distribution hub for one

Because most companies have a major percentage of their costs tied up in their supply chains, supply chain management - once seen as something of an add-on with no real bearing on a business’s ultimate success - has been elevated to a key board-level

Hovair air film technology by Movetech UK, combined with new flooring from Sika UK, has provided London & Cambridge Properties (LCP) with a practical and cost-effective solution to LCP’s need to double capacity at their specialist warehousing facilit