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Welcome to the September 1st edition of Warehouse & Logistics News. The excitement of the Olympics is over now until 2020 but there’s plenty of action to come from the top warehousing and logistics suppliers at IMHX 2016, taking place at the Birmingham NEC from Tuesday 13 to Friday 16 September. Prepare for your visit with our IMHX 2016 Preview, published with this issue and also available at www.warehousenews.co.uk/imhx
Talking of winning gold, in our news pages it’s congratulations to CHEP UK & Ireland on receiving the RoSPA Gold Award for the fourth year running. CHEP’s Pontefract plant has achieved over two million hours free of lost time incidents.
In other industry news, on our front cover Swisslog’s humanrobot picking solution Automated Item Pick (AIP) has won the 2016 Industriepreis at Hannover Messe. AIP was the winner in the Intralogistics & Production Management category. You can read more about Swisslog in our interview with James Sharples, Managing Director, Swisslog (UK) in the centre spread.
We also have an interview in this issue with Richard Champion, Packaging Business Director – Antalis, the packaging supplier to warehouse and logistics operations, e-commerce businesses and others. Antalis has delivered materials cost savings of over 40% for longterm client Seabrook Crisps while maintaining maximum protection of goods, reducing damages and returns.
If you’re planning to invest in upgrades for your business, don’t miss our Loading Bay feature. Stertil UK has refurbished and updated a major loading bay installation for AAH Pharmaceuticals, the pharmaceuticals and healthcare distributor. Hörmann’s recent investment in its service department is paying off with 30- 40 percent of projects now being sold with a service contract. Staying with the loading bay, Sara LBS’s new website offers technical brochures, CAD files and a comprehensive spare parts list.
If you need to change your premises but don’t want to move, in our Buildings and Facilities feature you can read about Union Industries’ recent static curtain installation for Don and Low, the polyolefin technical textile manufacturer and the latest news from temporary buildings maker Herchenbach and Westgate Factory Dividers, supplier of Flexiwall warehouse segregation systems.
Are you going to IMHX 2016? Come and say hello! Warehouse & Logistics News will once again be exhibiting at IMHX and we will have our biggest stand yet at this year’s event. If you are visiting the show, join us on stand 9D25 for a chat. As well as handing out the September 1st issue, our Show Preview and the Exhibitor Focus Supplement, we will also be distributing copies of the industry’s biggest supplement, the Warehouse & Logistics News Annual. Now in its fifth edition, the Annual is firmly established as the leading information source for the sector. If you’re involved in running a warehouse, come and collect your copy. See you there!
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