Materials handling services specialist Briggs Equipment has won a new contract worth £250,000 to supply forklift trucks along with lift and access equipment to Car Parts Industries (CPI), one of the leading remanufacturers of automotive parts in Europe.

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Car Parts Industries remanufactures products such as brake callipers, steering racks and steering pumps for an extensive range of cars and light commercial vehicles. With sister companies in Belgium, Poland and Denmark and maximising more than 40 years’ industry expertise, it is now market leader for both steering and brake remanufactured products.

Briggs has supplied CPI with a mix of forklift trucks and lift and access equipment with a capital value of £250,000. All of the equipment, which includes Hyster medium level order pickers, two Hyster counterbalanced electric forklift trucks and six JLG driveable stock pickers, will be deployed in the core and finished goods warehouses at CPI’s 135,000 sq. ft. facility in Wednesbury in the West Midlands. Under the terms of the five-year rental contract, Briggs is also providing a fully comprehensive maintenance and service package.

During the past two years Car Parts Industries has seen a significant upturn in demand for its products, prompting major investment, both in plant and people. The company has set up its own research and development centre located in Manchester and has created a centre of excellence for steering units and brake callipers at its Wednesbury site. Business development has also resulted in CPI expanding its workforce and the business now employs 232 people, up from 75 in 2010.

“The cornerstone of our materials handling strategy was to invest in top quality machinery that would give us the capacity for further development as well as the ability to cover our current needs, and to partner with a well-established supplier who understands what’s important to us as a business,” says CPI’s purchasing manager Darren Causer.

“Briggs was the only real choice. We negotiated hard to achieve a solution that would deliver the product reliability and quality of service we require, building a genuine rapport with the Briggs sales team, for whom nothing was too much trouble, and have arrived at a package which suits both companies.”

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