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Pallet mole can increase drive-in racking capacity
Pallet Mole, a clever device from e-racking, promises to increase the capacity of drive-in racking by up to 75%.
In these difficult times there is a greater need to optimise every inch of warehouse space. A new product that promises to solve many of the problems of high density storage solutions is now available.
Sheda highlights pitfalls of buying racking ‘blind’
Do you think you’ve netted the racking deal of the century? ShD talks to Storage, Handling Equipment Distributors’ Association (SHEDA) committee members to highlight some of the pitfalls with buying ‘blind’.
We all know eBay is the world’s most environmentally-friendly website. Creating a marketplace for people’s unwanted items, millions of products are being reused rather than recycled or sent to the tip. Including pallet racking. eBay isn’t the only internet shop where racking is available at a cut-rate price, but it’s certainly the largest.
Racking of ages
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A chance encounter at a trade event led to Peter MacLeod being invited to visit Redirack‘s factory in South Yorkshire. He was impressed.
Regular readers will be familiar with Redirack. It has bound its house magazine, Rack It, in ShD for quite some time, bringing to our readers its considerable experience of all things racking and shelving.
Spreadsheet management needs to change says Equipment Tracking Ltd
Equipment Tracking Ltd says managing pallet pools through stand alone spreadsheet software are losing thousands of pounds.
According to one leading software company, spreadsheet management is dated, time inefficient and lacks the power of integration to effectively track and collate pallet/delivery information.
Eco-Cap saves time and money
Hayley Shirley, former pallet distribution manager and Staffordshire inventor whose 62p cardboard cone has saved the international handling industry an estimated £40m in damaged stock, has now launched a new version that is claimed to be even more cost-effective than before.
The highly visible, yellow Palletcap has sold in its thousands, winning a clutch of awards and becoming a familiar sight in warehouses worldwide.
EPAL’s world pallet warning
EPAL has warned that World pallets are not exchangeable in its European Pallet Pool, following reports that they are appearing in the UK market.
Earlier this year, the German district court of Erfurt prohibited Falkenhahn AG from offering or selling wooden flat pallets carry the branding ‘World’ in an oval shape (reference number Az. 3 O 987/08), a mark that has a similar appearance to the ‘EUR’ and ‘EPAL’ trademark symbols – also in an oval - which have been used on EPAL Euro pallets for many years.
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