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Mosca is showcasing a full range of strapping solutions for a variety of applications at FachPack 2018. Celebrating its premiere at Stand 513 in Hall 4A, the compact EVOLUTION SoniXs MS-6 KR-ZV is designed for maximum efficiency and high performance – especially for strapping pallets with reduced strap tension. The …

Linde Material Handling, one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of forklift trucks, has launched the Linde C-MATIC; a new automated guided cart (AGC) designed to improve production logistics. The C-MATIC is designed to move parts to a production line and to transport goods through the warehouse. The vehicle can move loads …

Pregis Limited, supplier of Easypack®, the UK’s leading brand of eco-friendly packaging solutions, have been shortlisted as a finalist for the Environmental and Sustainability Award in the 2018 Logistics Awards. The Logistics Awards is an annual celebration of excellence in the logistics and supply chain sectors, recognising the most impressive …

Automated materials handling solutions specialist TGW Logistics has completed a fully automated distribution centre for Interdiscount at the home electronics giant’s headquarters in Jegenstorf, Switzerland. With 1,800 employees, Interdiscount sells a wide range of electronic products online and in over 180 store locations. The company, part of the Coop Group, …

Europe’s leading pallet pooling business, LPR (a division of Euro Pool Group), has won the UK pallet pooling contract for Beiersdorf, best known as the maker of Nivea branded skin care products. LPR will supply pallets for Beiersdorf’s health and beauty products from its Birmingham national distribution centre to distributors …

SICK has launched 2D and 3D vision-guided part localisation systems for easy and quick set-up of robot picking from a belt, or from a bin or stillage. Suitable for both cobots and conventional industrial robots, the SICK PLOC2D and PLB 520 have been developed specifically to facilitate affordable, or entry-level …

Loadhog, the packaging innovator, establishes close partnerships with companies to encourage them to swap one-trip packaging for reusable products. This has resulted in productive associations with companies such as Decathlon, enabling Loadhog to achieve a record £9.6m turnover, representing 26.6% growth in 2017. Like Loadhog, Decathlon has recognised growing investment …

Nestlé, the world’s largest food and drink company, and XPO Logistics, a leading global provider of transport and logistics solutions, are co-creating a 638,000-square-foot distribution centre at the new SEGRO East Midlands Gateway Logistics Park in Leicestershire, UK. The facility, a digital warehouse of the future, will be occupied predominantly …

The electronics wholesaler, ECOMAL Europe GmbH, will be using more Picavi smart glasses at its European central warehouse from the third quarter of 2018 onwards. This is because the company is extending the field of activities used by the pick-by-vision solution in the past at its logistics centre in Kirchzarten. …

De Cromvoirtse, a Netherlands-based steel stockholder and contract manufacturer of small batches of semi-finished sheet metal components, has invested in two interlinked, automated storage systems from Kasto and connected them to three sheet metal laser cutting machines to help speed deliveries. The Uniline store and Unitower B ensure fast, accurate, …