Welcome to the February 15th issue of Warehouse & Logistics News. In our front cover story you can read how Exporta are set to confirm their Verified Carbon Neutral status within a matter of days. Having worked together with Auditel to reach this milestone, Exporta will become the first carbon neutral plastic pallet supplier in the United Kingdom to be verified to BSi PAS2060 standard. The company has committed to be Net Zero by 2045.
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Moving into the future, UniCarriers in the UK have rebranded to Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks. Logisnext UK Ltd is delighted to announce that the brand UniCarriers is now replaced in the UK by Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks. This change is part of the European strategy of the company’s owner, Mitsubishi Logisnext Europe (MLE).
Welcoming back an old friend, Foodex Manufacturing Solutions will be back at the NEC, Birmingham this April (24th – 26th), as part of the UK Food & Drink Shows after a five-year hiatus. Bringing together the very best of the hospitality, manufacturing and grocery, speciality & convenience retail sectors, the shows are set to showcase the very latest products, big thinking, key insights and address key trends through the lens of the developing cost-of-living crisis.
Powering ahead, Team De Rooy has won the truck division of the 2023 Dakar Rally with an Allison-equipped truck. Almost 25 trucks that competed in the 2023 Dakar Rally and all Top 10 trucks were equipped with Allison Automatics, the majority of which were Allison 4000 SeriesTM transmissions. The 45th running of the world’s toughest annual motorsport competition featured daily extreme temperatures and terrain.
Providing quality, the Series 60 high-speed industrial sectional door from Hörmann UK, has been designed and developed for high security, and easy installation, our loading bay feature reports. When fitted with the Hörmann WA 500 FU operator, the Series 60 can achieve an impressive door opening speed of up to 1 m/s making it the fastest sectional door on the market, helping speed up warehouse operations and reduce building heat loss.
Delivering flexibility, Geek+, the global leader in mobile logistics robots, has released its latest solution, RoboShuttle Plus, achieving one-stop storage and picking of all types of goods. This marks a significant advance in the interoperability of Geek+’s various robot models and a stride towards full warehouse automation. The upgraded solution fills the market gap for an all-in-one picking solution by coordinating three types of robots around one centralised workstation: RoboShuttles handle vertical storage and retrieval of totes, P40 picking robots move smaller items, and P500 and P800 robots move medium to large items, according to our order picking feature.
Enjoy reading the issue.
James Surridge
Publishing Editor
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