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Hart Door Systems starts autumn with strong order books
Industrial door solutions company, Hart Door Systems, has started the autumn with a strong order book based in its Speedor energy saving door range.
Hart’s sales manager, Julian Britnell, reports that sales have come from a wide range of industrial sectors for a host of applications. “Our ability to design a solution for specific uses enables us to work hand in hand with clients,” says Mr. Britnell. “The challenge could be environmental, it could be health and safety driven, it could be logistical, the important thing is being able to supply the appropriate answer.
Concrete Grinding goes flat out
Concrete Grinding Ltd (CG) worked in partnership with Eurolit at a new facility for BIC-Violex SA in Athens.
The assignment was very similar to the Aktor project CG did for IKEA in 2007/8. Eurolit constructed the steel fibre reinforced floor to a high standard. Face Consultants then tested the aisles for compliance to the DIN 15185 specification within the proposed truck wheel paths. The graphic traces were then analysed and any sections which did not comply with the specification were highlighted. Subsequently, Concrete Grinding used the Laser Grinder to correct the floor within the wheel tracks at these locations.
SSI Schaefer: waking giant
We meet SSI Schaefer’s UK general manager, Dutchman Jaap Vos, who has ambition to use the recession as a means to grow his company’s market share.
Well known as a supplier of racking and shelving in the UK, Andover-based SSI Schaefer has started recently to make a serious name for itself in the world of automated warehousing. As we brave out the recession, SSI Schaefer is pushing ahead with ambitious plans to up its influence in areas outside of its traditional UK comfort zone.
Picking ergonomics
In this latest article by members of the Automated Material Handling Systems Association (AMHSA), Roger Peart, major accounts manager for Vanderlande Industries UK Ltd, argues that the way forward for the retail sector is to focus on ergonomic automation.
Napoleon who dubbed the British ‘a nation of shopkeepers’, and the retail sector is still arguably the powerhouse of the UK economy – worth some £270 billion, contributing 8% of our national GDP and employing over 3 million people (11% of the nation’s workforce).
CoGri is a wizard in Oz
Floor levelling expert CoGri Group overcame a tough challenge ‘down-under’, when it was asked to smooth a stubborn floor for IKEA’s new VNA facility.
Goodman is an integrated property group that owns, develops and manages industrial property and business space globally. Within Goodman’s portfolio was a recently acquired existing warehouse located in Moorebank, approximately 30km from Sydney, Australia’s Kingsford Smith International Airport.
Balancing act
John Maguire, sales and marketing director of Narrow Aisle Ltd, looks at how a well-designed warehouse can maximise picking rate efficiency and can help order pickers and forklifts to work together.
With retailers keeping less inventory in store, the amount of break-bulk and ground level picking of items into economic order quantities within distribution centres is growing fast. This means warehouse designers are under increasing pressure to devise storage systems that allow forklifts and order pickers to work alongside each other efficiently and safely.
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