Narrow Aisle Ltd, manufacturer of the Flexi range of articulated forklift trucks and other intralogistics solutions, has announced that global sales of its products reached an all-time high in 2015.
“The increase in volume sales that we experienced in 2015 fully justifies the investment that we made in the development of our UK production site in 2014,” says the company’s founder and managing director, Peter Wooldridge.
“We extended our UK plant by 40 per cent in 2013 and, such has been the acceleration in demand for products in the Flexi range, this additional capacity is now fully utilised,” he adds.
John Maguire, Commerical Director, attributes the company’s long term success in part to the number of warehouse operators who, due to a lack of good quality, new-build warehouse facilities on the market, have been forced to reconfigure their existing sites to achieve the additional storage capacity that they require.
“The space saving benefits that Flexis provide are increasing, well known and have been proved in the third party logistics industry over many years and the fact that Flexi technology enables far more efficient use of the available storage cube makes the trucks now particularly attractive to those companies that need to optimise the storage space available to them within their existing buildings,” John Maguire says.
Product development is fundamental to Narrow Aisle’s growth and the company launched a new higher density storage system concept in early 2015 – the Flexi StorMAX AC.
With warehouse operators in the food and grocery retail sector under immense pressure to reduce costs, the Flexi StorMAX AC system delivers an amazing net 50% increase in pallets stored compared to traditional reach trucks and offers huge cost savings and a rapid return on investment for the user.
“Early adopters of the technology who have allowed us to completely reconfigure their operations around the Flexi StorMAX have been able to achieve overall project payback in less than 12 months,” says John Maguire.
Looking ahead to 2016 and beyond, John Maguire says Narrow Aisle’s development team will continue to work on new product ideas that are capable of lifting increasingly heavier loads to ever higher levels within the confines of narrower storage aisles.
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