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Track-and-trace made easy - Complete line of traceability solutions
Remote order-picking technology earns iF Design Award
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rown, one of the world’s largest material handling companies,
announces that its QuickPick®
Remote order-picking technology has earned a third international design award for superior design quality, workmanship, ergonomics and innovative functionality. This most recent honour comes from the iF International Forum Design in the “Transportation Design/Special Vehicles” category of its 2014 product design competition. The iF jury has now recognised Crown product design excellence 35 times since 1969. Crown’s QuickPick® Remote is one of the first systems of its kind to utilise technology to reduce operator fatigue while improving productivity and safety. Order-picking operatives simply press a button on a wireless transceiver glove to remotely advance the
forklift eliminating to the the need
next to
pick return
location, to
the
virtually operator
compartment while picking. Crown field studies show that the technology helps reduce the number of steps on and off the platform taken by operatives, by up to 70 percent. Customers using QuickPick® Remote have experienced an average of 10 to 25 percent increase in productivity, according to Jim Kraimer, Director of Industrial Design – Europe at Crown.
Crown Tel: (49) 89/93 002-0 Web:
www.crown.com/uk
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raceability creates lean manufacturing processes, simplifies just-in-time deliveries, aids legal certainty and ensures product quality. The sensor specialist and RFID provider Balluff can look back on 25 years of experience in this area and offers an extensive portfolio of track-and-trace solutions. The portfolio was recently expanded to include new RFID technologies for high-temperature applications, which are often called for in the semiconductor industry or in paint-spray lines and drying ovens in the automotive sector. Balluff offers not only the entire spectrum of flexibly combinable LF, HF and UHF-RFID components, but also a variety of stationary barcode readers by means of which its customers can realize individual and economical traceability solutions on a high technical level. Data carriers mounted on a workpiece, pallet or directly on equipment record all steps and manufacturing lots of a production sequence. This occurs in running operation, so that the data can be evaluated in real time or later – even after years – for traceability purposes. Balluff, with its RFID systems of the BIS series, offers industry-proven solutions for extremely rough environments.
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Container access ramps underline comprehensive nature of our loading products portfolio
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oading and unloading specialist Thorworld Industries has underlined the comprehensive nature of its product portfolio in its 2014/5 Product Range Brochure, which includes the company’s new Ground Level Container Access Ramp. This latest addition to Thorworld’s best-selling range of loading solutions has already proven a hit with a variety of customers who need easier access into standard shipping containers. Ground Level Container Access Ramps provide a means of bridging the lip between the ground and the container floor to enable the trucks to enter the container at a gentle incline for a safer, smoother unloading process. The 2014/5 brochure continues to showcase the UK’s widest choice of loading bay and materials handling equipment, safety aids and accessories. Thorworld’s international reputation in the design, manufacture and supply of mobile yardramps is showcased, with a range of versatile ramps to buy or rent. New to the 2014/5 brochure is a revised layout that highlights the different types of yardramp available, as well as standard features common to all; helping customers to find exactly the right model they need.
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Kite Packaging Opens New Midlands Office
This month, leading UK packaging supplier Kite Packaging held a Grand Opening of its brand new building on the Alliance Trading Estate in Coventry. Just a few months ago Kite made a significant investment in its Midlands operation – the £3.5 million spend means Kite now fully owns the whole of Alliance Trading Estate, which is based next door to the company’s main building. The business has more than doubled its property footprint in the Midlands from 69,000 sq. ft to 179,000 sq. ft and the new building will be home to Kite Environmental Solutions and the Group Accounts operation. The opening saw the Managing Partners from each Kite branch cut the ribbon on the newly renovated building which includes a refurbished office and brand new Warehouse facility. The new Warehouse will allow for a more efficient packing and delivery operation from the company, who already offer free standard delivery on all online products as well as full service solutions such as JIT for branch customers, and includes a scissor lift so that trucks can easily transfer stock, as well as narrower lanes to allow for more storage space and new Aisle Master forklift trucks.
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Kite Packaging Tel: 02476420065 Web:
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ew building will be home to Kite Midlands Group Accounts and Kite Environmental Solutions
oplasticpallets.com is now offering a trio of pallets popular with industrial and manufacturing industries. Now available in lightweight, medium-duty and heavy-duty versions,
Goplasticpallets.com’s 1212mm (L) x 1212mm (W) plastic pallet range offers customers a solution for every application, from low weight shipments to heavy weight bulk consignments. Weighing just 7.6kg, the new lightweight open deck nestable pallet – the Qpall 1212 L – offers a static load capacity of 2,500kg and a dynamic load capacity of 1,000kg so, for low weight exports, this pallet really is a money saver. Capable of stacking up to 50 pallets high when empty, a standard 13.6m trailer can carry 1,000 of these pallets
G at a time, achieving further cost savings on return journey
transportation. The medium duty Qpall 1212 M6R pallet offers all the safety and hygiene benefits of plastic. It has a static load capacity of 7,500kg, a dynamic load capacity of 1,375kg and, depending on the model, can hold up to 600kg in racking. The APB1212 HR 6R is a heavy-duty open deck full perimeter pallet and the powerhouse of the 1212 range. Its superior strength and durability means it can withstand the heavy handling sometimes imposed in transit, including 4 x 45 gallon drums, often used in the transportation of oil or radioactive waste.
Goplasticpallets.com Tel: 01323 744057 Web:
www.goplasticpallets.com
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