http://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/Materials handling world - news and stories for material handling, forklift trucks, warehouse, supply chain, logistics and packingen-usWPR Media Ltd Makers of MHW Magazine17/05/2012 08:38:54http://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11740Axtec's market leading OnBoard axle load indicator has received approval from the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) allowing it to be fitted as original equipment by vehicle manufacturers. The system is the first and only one of its type to receive this approval. Approval from ...Wed, 16 May 2012 11:21:33 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11739Norbert Dentressangle has taken delivery of the first Renault Trucks 26 tonne hybrid vehicle in the UK as part of the company's commitment to testing alternative technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across its transport operations. The Renault Premium Distribution 310.26 6x2 rea...Wed, 16 May 2012 10:59:39 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11738While electronic load monitoring systems have helped to reduce conveyor malfunctions, unplanned and costly conveyor downtime is still an issue that plant engineers have to contend with on a regular basis. "Of course load monitoring systems are a useful safety feature but they should no...Wed, 16 May 2012 08:30:18 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11737As official GDP figures show, the UK is once again in recession, businesses are looking to strip waste wherever possible to remain buoyant and profitable. The insource versus outsource debate has long been discussed across all industries, but neither has become the defacto as both have continu...Wed, 16 May 2012 08:24:07 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11736Vital repair work to the Hammersmith Flyover will be completed on 30 May, allowing the structure to be fully reopened to all traffic well ahead of the London 2012 Games. The works, which began in January, have seen around 200m of the central reservation along the flyover removed, a new stru...Wed, 16 May 2012 08:12:17 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11735Mercedes-Benz is about to extend its family of trucks with a new member, the new Mercedes-Benz Antos- a model series designed specifically for heavy-duty short-radius distribution transport use. The vehicles have already been showing their mettle, albeit still in camouflaged guise, but the covers wi...Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:25 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11734Richard Brown CBE FCILT, Chairman of Eurostar, a former President of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK (CILT), and Ambassador for CILT's Rail Professional Sector, will be the guest speaker at the CILT Cymru-Wales National Transport Awards 2012. Richard Brown wi...Wed, 16 May 2012 07:52:41 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11733Transportation software provider, IES, Ltd., adds Highway ACI to its Ocean and Air ACI certifications. The technology provider urges the industry to take action before the November 1st deadline when non-compliant carriers will be denied entry into Canada. Transportation software provider, I...Wed, 16 May 2012 07:46:32 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11732GT Radial has hailed The Commercial Vehicle Show 2012 as "a real success" having secured over 30 high-quality leads, including a large number of senior national and European key fleet contacts. The company also revealed that attendance at the event has resulted in several orders f...Wed, 16 May 2012 07:41:56 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11731Castell and Traka are pleased to announce a joint development of their respective loading bay systems. Castell has many years of experience in providing loading bay safety systems and has installed Salvo on thousands of loading bays worldwide. Traka is an expert in access control solutions for Forkl...Wed, 16 May 2012 07:38:07 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11730When Forresters Chicken decided to make the switch from cardboard to plastic containers for its poultry, Goplasticpallets.com, the UK's leading independent supplier of plastic pallets and containers, held the hygienic advantage. Forresters, based in Kingsley in Cheshire, is a major UK ma...Wed, 16 May 2012 07:28:27 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11729UKWA - the United Kingdom Warehousing Association - has announced that the fifth in the Warehousing Futures series of networking conferences and exhibitions will take place at the St John's Hotel, Solihull, on 29-30 October 2012. The theme chosen for Warehousing Futures 2012 is Success i...Wed, 16 May 2012 06:47:22 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11728Eco-friendly logistics solutions are not just good for the planet but also offer major cost benefits to carriers and their customers. That was the message from P&O Ferrymasters group environmental manager Pete Chivers at this month's UK-based Multimodal 2012 trade show, where he was a speaker...Tue, 15 May 2012 08:38:25 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11727STORAX Racking Systems, the Midlands - based mobile racking specialist, has appointed Paul Horton to the position of project engineer. He will cover the whole of the UK and work closely with senior project engineer Martin Levitt. Paul's role will include providing advice to clients on th...Tue, 15 May 2012 08:30:35 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11726Deltion has launched an innovative 'App' for Android-based smart phones to deliver accessible telematics to users of the company's cloud-based CarrierNet transport management solution. Called CarrierNetMobile, the App can be downloaded free of charge from the Google App store. With...Tue, 15 May 2012 08:01:04 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11725A warming "cuppa" is the perfect thing to take the chill off the seemingly endless winter and, as a nation of tea lovers, in the UK alone we consume some 165 million cups of tea every day. As the vast majority of tea drinkers habitually pop their used wet teabags into the bin, Unilever UK ...Tue, 15 May 2012 07:54:19 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11724DSV Road Limited's Customer Service Team in the UK has undertaken training to increase its understanding of client needs and how to meet them. The Customer Service Academy workshops took place over two days and were run by senior DSV management and external training specialists. ...Tue, 15 May 2012 07:50:26 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11723Carpet Recycling UK's fourth Annual Conference opens in Birmingham on July 11th with a packed programme providing information and inspiration for all sectors of the carpet waste supply chain, including presentations from leading American carpet recyclers. Preceding the one-day event at ...Tue, 15 May 2012 07:48:28 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11722A one million pound investment in security and a local community partnership has paid dividends for Onward Holdings, after Langthwaite Business Park in South Kirby, West Yorkshire was officially recognised by West Yorkshire Police as crime free*. Onward Holdings, which operates a number of ...Tue, 15 May 2012 07:43:07 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11721Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV (HCME) has implemented a unique process to reduce chemical waste from the painting process at its factory in Amsterdam. Developed in cooperation with Advantage Chemicals Ltd, the process will save an estimated €60,000 per year on labour and energy costs, as...Tue, 15 May 2012 07:37:59 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11720After prolonged testing by an independent user in the Benelux region, data shows that a new Hyster ReachStacker is using up to 5.7 litres (1.3 Gal) of fuel less per hour compared to competitor reachstacker models at the same container terminal. A rental company has put the new Hyster ReachS...Tue, 15 May 2012 07:24:38 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11719The NHS in Wales has chosen to expand its use of the Ultimate™ labelling solution, from Episys, a global information technology solutions and services company, to a single labelling and worksheets system for its seventeen hospitals. It's Ultimate™ Platinum software was chosen to produce consisten...Tue, 15 May 2012 07:18:56 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11718Woodway UK Ltd has recently announced that they have just been awarded the ISO14001 environmental certificate. Martin Inwood, Managing Director, says "We all have a responsibility to the environment to ensure we reduce, reuse and recycle where possible. This is even more important in t...Mon, 14 May 2012 07:26:53 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11717NHS laundry chiefs in south-west Wales bought their first Bevan-bodied Mercedes-Benz trucks back in 1999, with the intention of running them for five years. But so sturdily built, reliable and well supported did those two vehicles prove that not until now, 13 years later, has the Hywel Dda ...Mon, 14 May 2012 07:23:44 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11716Warrenpoint Harbour in Northern Ireland has awarded Barloworld Handling a contract for the supply of a new fleet of Hyster forklift trucks with 7,000kg lift capacity. Warrenpoint Harbour receives up to 1,000 ships a year and when the busy port required new materials handling equipment, it c...Mon, 14 May 2012 07:11:29 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11715Determined to take industrial lubricants and site safety systems to a whole new level, ROCOL® has launched official Facebook and Twitter sites to engage with its growing band of customers and distributors. To celebrate its launch, the leading manufacturer is offering fans of its social media sites t...Mon, 14 May 2012 07:06:25 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11714Over three quarters (77%) of British adults think that large businesses should be required to report their carbon emissions, according to a new Populus poll [1]. This is despite a Government announcement at the end of March 2012 to delay a critical decision on whether to introduce such laws...Mon, 14 May 2012 06:55:41 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11713Western Commercial, the Mercedes-Benz dealer for Scotland's Central Belt, is targeting major growth in used vehicle sales and raising its service game after making a series of key appointments. Norrie Rae spent three years with Western Commercial before leaving in 2007 to work for anothe...Mon, 14 May 2012 06:52:34 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11712Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV (HCME) has announced the appointment of Mr Moriaki Kadoya as its new President and CEO. Mr Kadoya is also the new regional CEO of Hitachi Construction Machinery for Europe, Russia, CIS, Middle East, and North and Central Africa as of 1 April 2012. ...Mon, 14 May 2012 06:41:31 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11711Printwaste Recycling & Shredding makes its debut at The Facilities Show from May 15 to 17 to present its individual and bespoke flexible services tailored to customer requirements for the collection of all waste materials, including convenient collections direct from office areas that reduces costs....Mon, 14 May 2012 06:34:42 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11710The growth of roll-up door specialist Dynaco into the United Kingdom is being achieved with the support of Easilift Loading Systems. As the company's leading national UK distributor, Easilift is able to offer Dynaco doors as part of its total loading bay solutions. Easilift Loading Syste...Mon, 14 May 2012 06:28:17 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11709From 1 July anyone driving a motorised vehicle in or through France will be required to carry a single-use disposable breathalyser kit, although the enforcement and fines for not carrying one will not commence until 1 November. This measure is intended to reduce drink-driving problems in the countr...Fri, 11 May 2012 07:15:20 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11708Allport, the UK's leading freight forwarder has chosen vehicle tracking, telematics and integration specialist Isotrak's Active Transport Management System (ATMS) for its Specialist Services division. The deal will see functionalities such as Tracking, Telematics and Driving Style implemented ...Fri, 11 May 2012 07:11:05 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=1170775,000 boxes made to date... SSI Schaefer continues to support Aquabox Trust, a registered charity that provides a rapid response provision of safe drinking water and welfare aid items in the wake of both natural and man-made disasters. The charity, organised by the Rotary Club Wir...Fri, 11 May 2012 07:05:56 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11706Orders totalling more than £4.5 million were secured between January and March this year - the most successful start to the year the business has ever experienced. Requests for several FAUN refuse collection vehicles (RCVs) along with either Zoeller or OTTO lifts have been placed by local a...Fri, 11 May 2012 07:00:49 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11705The rain might have dampened the May bank holiday for some this weekend but in Peterborough, the rain was no match for monster trucks, celebrity guests and much more at this year's Truckfest Peterborough, which was held from 6th-7th May. Returning to the event for the first time in 12 ye...Fri, 11 May 2012 06:53:58 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11704The organisers of the PPMA Show have begun their search for rising stars of the processing and packaging machinery industry. The 'Ones to Watch', which features at the PPMA Show at Birmingham's NEC from 25-27 September 2012, not only offers the opportunity for machinery companies t...Thu, 10 May 2012 07:44:12 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11703Britain's oldest brewer has refreshed its distribution fleet with the latest in trucking technology, in the shape of its first Mercedes-Benz 'urban artic'. Shepherd Neame's new Atego 1329LS tractor unit was supplied by Sparshatts of Kent, the reigning Mercedes-Benz Commercial Ve...Thu, 10 May 2012 07:40:23 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11702Hyster Europe will demonstrate ways of achieving fuel savings of up to 20% at TOC Europe 2012 (Terminal Operations Conference and Exhibition), from 12-14 June 2012, at the Antwerp Expo in Belgium on stand C6. Chris van der Werdt, Sales Manager for Hyster Big Trucks, says "At TOC last y...Thu, 10 May 2012 07:34:53 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11701The Automated Material Handling Systems Association (AMHSA) has appointed Peter Lerigo its new President to serve a two-year term of office. Formerly Vice-President of the association, Peter takes the reins just as AMHSA celebrates the success of its latest symposium, entitled 'Future Ma...Thu, 10 May 2012 07:30:24 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11700The most important consideration when working with any heavy machinery is safety - for the operator, bystanders and the equipment. The new Hiab Multilift skiploader telescopic (SLT) radio control allows the operator to move freely around the truck and get an all-round view of the working area, makin...Thu, 10 May 2012 07:28:27 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11699Two of the UK's leading logistics companies have backed apprentice, graduate and back to work schemes to help solve the expected shortfall in future logistics employees. David Wilson, HR Development Manager, PD Ports, and Chris Malyon, Director of Sales and Marketing, DSV Road Limited, o...Thu, 10 May 2012 07:23:06 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11698STORAX Racking Systems recently exhibited at the Plant and Asset Management Exhibition at the NEC Birmingham. Centrepiece on their stand was a working miniature model of a warehouse demonstrating how their mobile racking system works. The three day exhibition featured a variety of companies...Thu, 10 May 2012 07:19:01 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11697Hygiene Group, the specialist contract cleaning services provider, is working with one of the UK's leading adhesives manufacturers to deliver cleaning for its on-site storage facilities. Norcros Adhesives manufactures and supplies tile adhesives, grouts, surface preparation and aftercare...Thu, 10 May 2012 07:12:06 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11696A new airside service at Heathrow airport has been launched by Kuehne + Nagel to enhance its critical spare parts logistics offering to the aerospace industry. The new solution means Kuehne + Nagel is even better positioned to meet the unique challenges an Aircraft on Ground (AOG) situation...Thu, 10 May 2012 07:05:04 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11695The Kühne Logistics University held its second case competition for Bachelor's students last weekend. Eighteen competitors from Germany and Europe spent all Saturday poring over a humanitarian logistics case study with a view to presenting a good result to the jury. The task ...Thu, 10 May 2012 06:43:24 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11694The Dewsbury-based business has acquired a 220hp CF65 18-tonner with a sleeper cab and a 28ft flatbed body built and fitted by Micra Truck Bodies of Wakefield. Also new to the 35-strong and mostly-DAF fleet is a 460hp XF105 Space Cab 6x2 44-tonne tractor unit equipped with DAF's new, lighter, 12-...Wed, 9 May 2012 13:20:03 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11693Carrier Transicold Europe is enhancing the level of support available to customers with the launch of a new app for iPhone and Android™ smart phones. The app enables users to locate and contact the nearest service centre across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), to help maintain cold chain p...Wed, 9 May 2012 09:09:47 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11692Steadplan Limited, the MAN Service Dealer with centres in Clitheroe and Rochdale, has continued to expand its MAN Dealer footprint with the acquisition of Croft Fleet Maintenance (Leeds) Limited. Speaking on behalf of Steadplan, Managing Director, Jim Smith, said, "Having successfully ...Wed, 9 May 2012 07:58:56 GMThttp://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=11691Over the past few years, technology has helped to transform the warehouse and logistics industry. Wireless technology in particular has aided our ability to gather data from diverse sources and locations for a range of functions. Investing in new technology is vital to the success of wareho...Wed, 9 May 2012 07:43:38 GMT