Pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca has extended its contract with Yusen Logistics to include the transport of prescription drugs to Australia under temperature-controlled conditions.
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Birds Eye has extended its logistics partnership with Norbert Dentressangle to include the storage and supply of packaging and ambient raw materials, along with on-site shunting operations into the manufacturer's award-winning manufacturing complex in Lowestoft.
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Furniture manufacturer Home Decor GB has boosted production and storage capacity with a move to a new site, where it has an interactive showroom and new manufacturing processes. Plant and equipment investment includes two electric-powered Combilift trucks to maximise space at the facility.
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Three leading car manufacturers have joined forces to reduce risks in their supply chains.
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Hitchin-based manufacturer Hermitage Sheet Metal has become one of the smallest engineering companies in the UK to secure a silver World Class Supply Chains for the 21st Century Award (SC21).
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Britain's manufacturers are calling for government to prioritise investment in roads, act faster on increasing airport capacity and take the politics out of transport infrastructure by setting up an independent commission.
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Westmill Foods has awarded Potter Logistics a £1m contract to handle raw materials for its rice milling and packaging facility in Selby, Yorkshire. The two-year deal includes handling, warehousing and transportation of bulk and bagged rice.
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Easter egg and confectionery manufacturer Kinnerton is expanding and altering its production lines in the pre-Easter rush with little effort by moving machinery around on air skates.
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Norbert Dentressangle is replacing 40 forklift trucks (FLTs) during 2013 with a new hybrid drive model that massively reduces fuel consumption and emissions
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Industrial crane and hoist manufacturer, Street Crane Company, has launched an initiative to recruit the next generation of engineers to take the business forward.
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Safety devices, forklift trucks for specialist applications and rubbish bags for pallet trucks were all in the spotlight at the Fork Lift Truck Association's annual awards for excellence, held earlier this month in Birmingham.
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Carbon steel component manufacturer CMS Cepcor has two new overhead travelling cranes which, it says, are delivering considerable improvements to production efficiency.
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Coatings and speciality products supplier PPG Industries has renewed its long-term supply chain contract with Norbert Dentressangle.
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Toyota Material Handling has redesigned the diesel engines for its Tonero counterbalanced forklift truck range, giving 8% better fuel efficiency and reduced carbon emissions.
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IT equipment disposal and recycling business RDC has consolidated four warehousing locations into one 340,000 sq ft facility which has been kitted out with a narrow aisle pallet racking system from Jungheinrich.
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Organisers of logistics and materials handling event IMHX 2013 have announced a line-up of supply chain experts for the free-to-attend conference running from 19-22 March at the NEC, Birmingham.
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Entries are open for the RTITB Operator of the Year competition, which tests and rewards excellent driving skills by counterbalance forklift operators.
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Materials handling training group Mentor is urging plant managers with forklift trucks to ensure their staff are fully trained to work safely as winter arrives.
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Egg and dessert distributor Noble Foods has improved efficiency, decreased manual handling and reduced product damage with a fleet of pallet trucks which can be charged on-board its delivery vehicles.
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Cardboard manufacturer Smurfit Kappa has been fined £8,000 plus £14,000 costs after forklift reversed and hit a worker at its Caerphilly factory.
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Automotive component distributor First Line has relocated two warehouses to a new purpose-built centre where it is using a mix of new and refurbished warehouse trucks from Jungheinrich.
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Underlay and flooring manufacturer Interfloor has outsourced transport of goods from its two production sites to retailers around the UK, with a three-year contract awarded to logistics business Norbert Dentressangle.
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Boiler and water heater manufacturer BDR Thermea has introduced Flexi articulated forklift trucks into one of its finished goods warehouses, following a materials handling review of the operation.
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Materials handling equipment manufacturer Combilift has been named Ireland's top exporter to Germany by Enterprise Ireland and the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
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Automotive product manufacturer Brose has signed a new three-year deal with Gefco for the transport of seat frames from its Coventry facility to a customer site in Redditch.
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