KP Industries managing director Phil Cornell is predicting a bright future for his company after he picked up a coveted national award. The boss was chosen by his peers from the Academy for Chief Executives to be the Member of the Year for the first time since he joined the …
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Rail-Veyor® Technologies Global Inc. is proud to announce it signed a contract to install a Rail-Veyor system at Agnico Eagle Mines Limited’s (NYSE:AEM, TSX:AEM) (“Agnico Eagle”) Goldex Mine in Val-d’Or, Quebec, Canada. The 3 km underground material handling system will be installed during 2016 and is intended to be operational …
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A successful family history In 2014, BEUMER Group, based in Beckum, looked back on yet another successful year with a turnover of 680 million Euros. This was possible because BEUMER continued to concentrate on its core business capabilities, to be innovative, and consistently to pursue its strategic policy of globalisation. …
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Version 3 of the TranSend ePOD app has a raft of new features that enable users to more pro-actively manage their delivery operation and provide a more responsive customer service: Predictive ETAs: GPS tracking of the driver’s device, combined with live traffic conditions using HERE maps, provides delivery operators and …
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NFT Distribution, the UK’s leading partner to the chilled food and drink sector, has signed a five-year contract renewal with CHEP, the world’s leading provider of pallet and container pooling solutions, for managed pallets in the UK and Ireland. The new deal will see CHEP supply around 1.1 million of …
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Online beauty products retailer, Pinkish, has streamlined its order fulfilment and despatch processes with a fully integrated shipping document solution from SellerDynamics and NetDespatch. Pinkish despatches around 1,600 orders of beauty products and garments every month throughout the UK and abroad, and has already earned a 5-star rating on eBay …
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Independent logistics operator, Europa Worldwide Group, has once again called on Impact’s expertise to equip its new European 1hub with 15 electric 1.6 tonne forklift trucks, cementing a relationship that began more than a decade ago. Europa’s 1hub is the UK’s largest European groupage hub where the business centralises all …
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Baoli Material Handling Europe extends its portfolio of warehouse equipment for the European market by introducing a wide range of new electric pallet trucks and stackers. They are suitable for load capacities from 1 to 2,5 tons. The different models are designed for a variety of applications, ranging from loading …
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On paper, the concept of automating vertical tray packing sounds relatively straightforward. However, even if the packs are presented uniformly to a robot with a vacuum end-effector, the shortcoming will always be ‘how do you get the last pack into the tray?’ The Shingle Tray Loader (STL) designed by Pacepacker …
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UPS (NYSE:UPS) has announced plans to construct a new 32,000 square metre package sorting and delivery facility at the DP World London Gateway logistics site in the south east of England. At close to £120 million, this project constitutes one of UPS’s largest infrastructure investments outside of the United States …
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