Warehouse

As a business grows, business owners face the challenge of managing this growth and its implications for business operations. Stock control management is one area of a business that can experience growing pains, often showing itself in increased costs, poor service, slow productivity or stock wastage. As growing companies often …

Onward Holdings Ltd has awarded Tolent Construction the contract to build a new warehouse facility at its Phoenix Park site on the Green Lane Industrial Estate in Featherstone, following the granting of B8 planning permission. The facility should be available to lease by the end of June 2019. It has …

Smart-Space, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers and installers of re-locatable, semi-permanent and permanent buildings, has completed the construction of a 250-pallet packaging store for Cranswick plc at the food producer’s cooked chicken facility in Hull. The semi-permanent 15-metre by 20-metre structure, with 40mm composite walls and a thermo inflatable …

National logistics developer db symmetry has completed the first state of the art 150,000 sq ft logistics building at Symmetry Park Doncaster as part of an overall £70million investment into the region. The speculative venture is the first in Yorkshire by db symmetry, which is one of the UK’s biggest …

Located on the outskirts of Solihull, Blythe Valley Park is an established 2 million square feet master planned campus for businesses and employees, with over 122 acres of beautiful parkland. The park has 500,000 square feet left to be developed, and the latest project to complete was a campus of …

The United Kingdom Warehousing Association (UKWA) will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its inception in 2019. The Association was launched in 1944 when representatives from warehousing companies formed a Committee to discuss the storage and distribution of food and materials in wartime Britain. Originally known as the National Association of …

A key component for the majority of modern businesses, having a thorough, well researched and carefully considered distribution strategy in place is a must. However, depending on industry and the types of product your company produces – such as perishable food items – distribution requirements can vary greatly. In this …

Automated handling solutions specialist TGW has won the ‘Business’ category in the 2018 Austrian Robotics Awards with its ‘Rovolution’ robot technology. The judging panel of representatives from the fields of education, industry and the Austrian Society for Measurement, Automation and Robotics were impressed by TGW’s intelligent, self-learning and flexible system …

Uses state-of-the-art automation to optimise warehouse control Features RFID goods tracking, automated goods routing and warehouse ‘lights out’ automatic storage and retrieval Includes interface to Böwe Systec sorters controlled by smart order management system Software engineering and automation specialist Red Ledge has chosen the 2019 IntraLogisteX exhibition for the public …

Working in a warehouse raises its own specialist set of concerns, but one of the very worst is heating. With temperatures dropping significantly in the wintertime, vast spaces such as warehouses can be badly affected, with working conditions inside suffering greatly as a result. A 24 hour industry, night shift …