Mitsubishi’s warehouse trucks help increase order picking efficiency

Comprehensive line-up and class-leading performance from Mitsubishi‘s warehouse range help increase order picking productivity.

One of the key requirements of any warehouse operation, if efficiency is to be optimised, is a professional assessment of each materials handling application. This will identify precisely the right type of warehouse truck – and the precise configuration needed – for every task.  The next step is to compare quality and performance between suitable trucks offered by a range of manufacturers. On all counts, Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks says it has something very special to offer.

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Freight ideas

In our 2009 ShD Warehouse Efficiency Guide, we highlight ways in which logistics operations can be run more effectively. Over the next few pages, starting with our look below at freight exchanges, we hope you will discover something you didn’t previously know.

Finding efficiencies that not only enable businesses to survive the recession, but which make them stronger, is the Holy Grail for employers.

But where can businesses find such a win-win solution? For transport operators, the answer is online freight exchanges, such as those operated by The Transport Exchange Group (TEG), as they can make their businesses more profitable and greener.

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Briggs Equipment gives advice on how to recover from the recession

Tony Rooney, sales and marketing director at Briggs Equipment, highlights how the materials handling supplier is working with its customers to get them fit for recovery when the worst of the recession subsides.

It is widely recognised that this recession has made a deep cut into our economy. But it has also changed the structure of markets. Sophisticated markets with stronger competitors and improved products are already emerging and companies need to be ready to deal with this.

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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.

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