Chronopost International has awarded FKI Logistex the right to supply a complete high-speed tilt-tray sorting system for its new 118,000 sq ft parcel hub near Paris.
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With land values continuing to rise and labour becoming more expensive and harder to find, will 2007 herald a golden age for warehouse automation? James Falkner reports.
Welconstruct has completed a heavy duty pallet storage scheme at British Gypsum’s plasterboard factory in Sherburn-in-Elmet near Leeds.
Bertram Books, a UK book wholesaler is using a void fill cushion from Easypack on a conveyor sorting system.
Dematic has bought the right to use AutoLogic System’s Demo3D software.
WH Smith has increased outbound productivity by 20 per cent at its Dunstable distribution centre, after installing a sortation system from SDI Greenstone.
About 20 per cent of all components stored in warehouses take more than 10 minutes to retrieve, according to a survey by automated storage and retrieval specialist Kardex.
The race to win the home shopping, e-fulfilment market is on, according to Steve Richmond, general manager for the systems and projects division of Jungheinrich.
Transdek UK has produced a mobile lifting platform that can be used to load and unload double-stacked containers, allowing customers such as multiple retailers to increase their external storage capacity at lower cost.
Environmental concerns are increasingly influencing the logistics decision-making process – particularly among public-facing businesses such as retailing. How is forklift truck technology developing to meet the challenge?
