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Month: August 2019

Aug192019 by adminNo Comments
Forklift Safety Month warns of life-changing accidents

Forklift Safety Month warns of life-changing accidents

FLTA, General
The UK’s leading training provider is to release a report on site shortcomings and solutions following an industry survey. With October now confirmed as National Forklift Safety Month 2019, employers are being urged to take this as an opportunity to review their working procedures in a bid to drive down what industry leaders describe as the “stubbornly high levels of accidents and injuries”. According to Tim Waples, CEO of the Fork Lift Truck Association: “Across the UK there are 5 forklift-related accidents every working day. This year alone more than 1300 individuals will sustain life-changing injuries. And, as the ripples spread out, many more thousands of partners, children, parents, friends, workmates and employers will see their worlds turned upside down.” As one of the bus...
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Aug192019 by adminNo Comments
AFI promotes Higgins to COO

AFI promotes Higgins to COO

Movers and Shakers
Powered access hire group AFI group has promoted Nick Higgins to group chief operating officer. The appointment of a COO is part of a restructure following last week’s acquisition of Facelift (GB). The acquisition takes AFI’s UK rental fleet to 7,500 machines. Nick Higgins will assume overall responsibility for AFI’s UK rental operations as well as group services. Working with him is a rental management team. Steve Williams heads the AFI-Uplift powered access hire business; Pete Wajner, the specialist rental division; and Neil Gellender and Graham Hawkins look after Hampshire Plant & Access, which was acquired by AFI in 2015. The move allows chief executive David McNicholas to work with chairman David Shipman on strategy and business development. David Shipman said: ...
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Aug182019 by adminNo Comments
Nationwide Platforms opens in Didcot

Nationwide Platforms opens in Didcot

Access
Powered access rental company Nationwide Platforms has opened a new depot in Didcot, Oxfordshire. With the addition of Didcot, Nationwide Platforms now has 35 depots across the UK with this number set to increase as the company look to expand their service offering throughout the Midlands in 2020 and beyond. Owned by French rental group Loxam, Nationwide runs the UK’s largest fleet of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) with more than 13,000 machines. The Didcot depot, on Hawksworth Industrial Estate, has capacity to hold stock of over 400 MEWPs and will also host operator training programmes. Managing director Colin Hotchkiss said: “Great powered access hire service depends on being close to our customers and delivering the right equipment just when they need it. This ...
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Aug162019 by adminNo Comments
Exoskeletons Tested in Warehouses

Exoskeletons Tested in Warehouses

Innovation
DB Schenker has intensively and successfully tested the use of exoskeletons at several logistics locations. The logistics service provider is thus continuing its efforts to relieve warehouse staff of physically-demanding tasks. Exoskeletons, also known as outer skeletons or support robots, are electro-mechanical support structures carried on the body. In addition to ergonomically-designed workstations, they are designed to support the warehouse employees during lifting and rotating movements of the body. In particular, this protects the lumbar vertebrae and the back muscles. The strain on these parts of the body is often the cause of illness and inability to work. “Here at DB Schenker, our employees are our most important and valuable asset. I am therefore very pleased that we ar...
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Aug152019 by adminNo Comments
Uplift for Busy Shift Operations

Uplift for Busy Shift Operations

Batteries
Hoppecke Industrial Batteries has launched trak | uplift, the latest in vented lead-acid technology. Combining quality, durability and economy, the new battery range provides the ideal solution for busy single shift operations. At the heart of all Hoppecke trak | uplift products is active carbon. In conjunction with other innovative developments this specially matched active material promotes higher current discharge characteristics, improved fast charging capabilities and increased service life for cyclic applications. New innovations include a 3D enhanced electrode design plus a protective shell separator, which prevents deposits of free active materials accumulating on the negative electrode, known as mossing – a major cause of short circuits. A pole feed-through, with a labyr...
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Aug142019 by adminNo Comments
It’s time to register for the IMHX 2019 Forklift Operator Challenge

It’s time to register for the IMHX 2019 Forklift Operator Challenge

General, Trending
Talent in Logistics working in partnership with UniCarriers UK are calling for Britain’s most skilled operators to take part in this year’s Forklift Operator Challenge at IMHX 2019 from 24-27 September. Visitors to stand 6B190 will have the opportunity to demonstrate a high level of skill and accuracy by operating the UniCarriers award winning TX3 Electric Counterbalance Truck. Before the challenge, the UniCarriers team will familiarise each entrant with the truck. To take part, one has to be a qualified counterbalance lift truck operator and provide proof of that on-site. Each entrant, having completed the challenge, will leave with a Talent in Logistics/UniCarriers giveaway. Ruth Edwards (pictured), Business Manager at Talent in Logistics says: “Forklift operators have a challe...
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Aug122019 by adminNo Comments
AFI takes over Facelift

AFI takes over Facelift

Access
Powered access hire company AFI-Uplift has taken over competitor Facelift after a £60m injection of new private equity capital. Facelift was founded by Gordon Leicester in Hickstead, Sussex in 1986 when he was just 21 years old and bought a Simon D50 truck-mounted platform to help with building maintenance work. From this, a hire business grew to a fleet of more than 700 machines and annual revenues of £12m. It is a top 20 player in the general UK powered access rental market and particularly prominent for its high-reach truck-mounted platforms. Now aged 54, Gordon Leicester is cashing in. AFI’s fleet of 7,500 platforms in the UK and Middle East make it much larger than Facelift but the acquisition substantially strengthens AFI’s offering in the self-drive truck and van mounted p...
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Aug122019 by adminNo Comments
New “ATEX” trucks provide protection for paints and coatings manufacturer

New “ATEX” trucks provide protection for paints and coatings manufacturer

Handling
A leading UK paints and coatings manufacturer has selected Pyroban® to provide explosion protection on its latest lift trucks operating in Zone 2 hazardous areas. The manufacturer makes paints and specialist coatings at its Distribution Centre which operates round the clock, moving more than 1000 pallets and servicing more than 40 HGVs in 24 hours, making quick operation and reliability of equipment crucial. As some of the products handled are solvent based, the Distribution Centre has been classified as a Zone 2 hazardous area which therefore requires specially adapted, ATEX* 2014/34/EU compliant lift trucks. Standard lift trucks operating in these areas could otherwise be a source of ignition in the event of a solvent vapour release. “Heat from a truck’s engine, motors, brak...
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Aug102019 by adminNo Comments
Linde expands fuel cell truck range

Linde expands fuel cell truck range

Innovation
Linde Material Handling is expanding its fuel cell truck portfolio with the launch of a tow tractor. Making its debut at Inter Airport Europe, the P250 is a rapid refuelling, efficient and emission-free machine with 25 tons of tractive force. With fuel cell technology becoming increasingly a promising energy solution, the OEM is seeking to tap more of this growing market. Having begun working on the alternative energy source 20 years ago, the first units from the firm went in to series production in 2010. Now, with 80% of its models available with the power source, Linde claims to offer the largest product range on the market – with pallet trucks, reach trucks and counterbalance trucks all included in this group. A special highlight at the Inter Airport Europe exhibition, taki...
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Aug82019 by adminNo Comments
Red Diamond buy Alto Handling

Red Diamond buy Alto Handling

Business, Dealer
The UK importer of Mitsubishi forklift trucks, Red Diamond Distribution (RDD), has completed the acquisition of Portsmouth-based Alto Handling. RDD’s Mike Jones describes the acquisition as "an important development that will ensure customers on the South coast, including Brighton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth, continue to enjoy continuity of service from a highly regarded and vastly experienced local supplier". "At the same time, the move will allow RDD to maintain the integrity of the Mitsubishi network in the UK by ensuring stability, job security and growth for this award-winning business." Jones says Alto was a highly successful Mitsubishi dealership for more than 24 years and scooped the coveted Mitsubishi Gold Award for outstanding customer support on three separate occas...
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