The UK leader in palletised freight has expanded its fleet after the delivery of two fuel-efficient trucks. Pall-Ex has taken a two-year lease agreement on two Renault Premium 450 dci 6 tractor units with Allport Truck Centre - which currently supplies and supports all of Pall-Ex's fleet requirements. The trucks, which are equipped with Opti driv...[more]

Advanced logistics software from Paragon Software Systems is enabling The Linde Group to optimise routing and scheduling of thousands of gas deliveries across the world. The Linde Group is a world leading gases and engineering company with almost 50,000 employees working in around 100 countries worldwide. In the 2008 financial year it achieved sale...[more]

VeriLocation's brand new wireless temperature monitoring system will make its world debut at this year's Food and Drink Logistics Show on Stand AC040. Using RFID tagging and wireless temperature probes, Bio-Trak is able to precisely monitor the condition and location of chilled and frozen cargo. Information from the system is fed back to a li...[more]

BITO Storage Systems, the UK's leading storage and materials handling equipment company, has launched the 2010 edition of its Product Catalogue. Many new and updated products are featured, as are details on a scheme that delivers significant customer discounts. More than just a catalogue, this comprehensive product guide to a full range of stora...[more]

The largest manufacturer of mechanical seals in the UK, AESSEAL, has installed an automated, double tower system at its Rotherham factory to store stainless steel and superalloy bar, tube and billet in a compact footprint. The KASTO Unitowers, housing 5-tonne- and 3-tonne-capacity cassettes respectively, are positioned side by side and occupy ju...[more]

The recently opened Tesco Distribution Centre in Middlesborough boasts a range of impressive statistics - not least being that it is home to one of the largest Link 51 pallet racking installations ever undertaken. The non-food storage area, which occupies approximately half of the 1 million sq.ft. of space available at the site, now benefits from ...[more]

Stable order inflow despite continuing challenging market environment. Ongoing projects progressing positively. Innovations being driven by investments in Research & Development. Dematic entering new markets and expanding range of services. Economically well positioned, even in difficult times As an internationally active group, Dematic's past ...[more]

Saint-Gobain Building Distribution UK (SGBD), the parent company of leading builders merchant Jewson, has announced it has comfortably beaten its target for reducing waste to landfill in 2009. SGBD is widely regarded as leading the sustainability agenda amongst builders' merchants in the UK, one indication of which was the company's decision to ...[more]

At a time when British industry continues to swim against the tide of recession, pro-Whale Tankers customer, SP Holding of Telford, Shropshire - a rapidly expanding drainage services, truck and plant hire, and events specialist - is throwing the gauntlet down to UK companies by asking them to buy the best of British. And proof of the pudding com...[more]

HUSBAND-AND-WIFE team Iain and Alison Biddle have built their road haulage and freight business on a very important ethos - the customer is always right. The ambitious couple run Thame Freight from their Oxfordshire home, carrying out express deliveries to destinations throughout the UK and continental Europe. Their business has grown with the h...[more]

A manufacturer of innovative food storage solutions is enjoying a fruitful relationship with its third party logistics (3PL) provider, who it says is playing a key role in ensuring the company meets its growth targets for the UK. The manufacturer, Sistema Plastics UK Ltd, specialises in the design and manufacture of plastic storage boxes and con...[more]

Smurfit Kappa UK's Packaging Division, one of the UK's leading manufacturers of paper based packaging solutions has been awarded the first Carbon Trust Standard for a major multi-site packaging company after taking action on climate change by measuring and reducing its carbon footprint by 11%. This huge reduction of almost 8,000 tonnes of CO2 car...[more]

Troax UK Limited has designed and built a high security computer storage facility for use by IT infrastructure services specialist, Computacenter. Computacenter brought in Troax to construct the secure facility where computers are stored prior to being issued to offices throughout the country. To provide the highest possible level of physical...[more]

Schoeller Arca Systems, the global market leader in plastic packaging solutions for materials handling, is proud to announce that they will be exhibiting plastic pallets now manufactured in the UK at this year's Food & Drinks Logistics Show to be held at Birmingham NEC from 21st to 24th March. Schoeller Arca Systems has a complete range of plast...[more]

Containerships Ltd Oy of Finland has appointed leading European logistics specialist P&O Ferrymasters as its sales and booking agent for Italian business transiting via the port of Rotterdam. The appointment is effective from today. Containerships link northern Italy via Rotterdam with Helsinki, St Petersburg and the Baltic states through freque...[more]

1. The Client One of Europe's leading POS (Point Of Sale) producers, Jansen Display supplies shop and display equipment to major retailers. Founded in 1995 as a German-Czech joint venture in Prague, the company has offices located in Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Czech Republic and Poland. As part of the company's growth and major expansion plans, t...[more]

Leading fruit and vegetable wholesaler Wealmoor has specified Stertil Stokvis products at its brand new factory in Atherstone on Stour, Warwickshire. The factory was rebuilt following a devastating fire two years ago and Stertil Stokvis was asked to install twelve new loading docks in a £120,000 project. The Wealmoor project involved a range of ...[more]

VINCI PLC has recently been awarded the UK wide facilities management contract for DSG International (the electrical retailer best known for its PC World and Currys brands within the UK) Following a successful pilot, AMH Services have subsequently been awarded a 3 year contract with Vinci to service and maintain the materials handling equipment ...[more]

Pharmaceutical giant Fresenius Kabi has opened a brand new state of the art, fully automated, high-bay warehouse at Cargo Centre Graz (CCG), planned, designed and installed by SSI Schaefer. Fresenius Kabi, the leader in infusion therapy and clinical nutrition in Europe and countries of Latin America and Asia Pacific, chose CCG in Austria, a publ...[more]

Basildon-based courier company Abby Couriers will be demonstrating its electric powered delivery vehicle at Havering Town Hall in Romford on Wednesday 17 March 2010. Managing Director of Abby Couriers, Mark Giles, said: "Last autumn Abby Couriers launched three electric powered delivery vehicles on to the streets of London on regular delivery ro...[more]