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Cold weather working with Snickers Workwear’s sustainable climate control
Dressing right and staying comfortable when it’s cold and wet demands the best in Climate Control working clothes Continuous work in cold weather produces body heat and sweat. But when your rate of work slows, the sweat cools and you’ll start to feel cold and damp. The solution is Snickers Workwear’s body-mapping Mid-layer working clothes that deliver advanced ventilation to control and regulate the heat from your body. Made to last from sustainable fabrics such as micro fleece and recycled polyester, they’re
great for both work and leisure activities. These garments insulate and keep heat around your body by effectively creating an air pocket inside your clothes. They complement Snickers Workwear’s FlexiWork Base-layer undergarments that combine sustainable animal-friendly Merino Wool with polyamide for warmth and ventilation. As well as the Top-layer or ‘outer shell’ AllroundWork and Flexiwork Weatherproof Jackets and Trousers that will keep you warm, dry and comfortable all day long.
Snickers Workwear 01484 854788
sales@hultaforsgroup.co.uk www.snickersworkwear.co.uk
Industry first IP52 AMRs with increased ability to withstand dust and fluids
Two new additions to the RARUK Automation Ltd MiR range of autonomous mobile robots are the first IP52 rated AMRs on the market, giving them increased ability to withstand dust particles and fluids. This allows them to be used in more challenging environments such as areas close to open, weather- exposed docking gates. Both AMRs – the MiR600 and MiR1350 - are also compliant with the highest safety standards, ISO3691-4. This attribute, combined with the new IP52 design, makes these models the safest, most stable, flexible and reliable AMRs currently available. The MiR1350 is the new top-of-the range model, the most powerful AMR from MiR to date.
With a payload of 1350kg (3000 lbs), this model, with its specially designed pallet lifters, enables heavy loads and pallets to be moved automatically at a speed of up to 1.2m/s to maximise the efficiency of logistics operations.
RARUK Automation Ltd 01462 670 044
automation@raruk.com
www.rarukautomation.com
TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION
Make mine a double
The Park, the multi-award-winning manufacturing and blending plant in Avonmouth, produces 25 million 9L case equivalents of wine each year at its 80,000m² warehouse and distribution centre, the largest of its kind in Europe. Recent problems with the supply chain and shipping, in tandem with a period of growth, prompted the management to look at ways of increasing on-site storage for containers and ISO Tanks which are shipped mainly from Australia and New Zealand.
Freight Manager Bob Prescott and his team evaluated various options and concluded that the capabilities of the Combi-SCs would enable containers to be stored much closer together as well as double stacked for maximum density. “The container handling equipment we have used for years can only lift one load at a time and their manoeuvrability is very limited,” said Prescott, “whereas the three-wheel Combi-SC can turn on its axis and access much tighter spaces.”
The own weight and axle loading of the Combi-SC models is much lighter than other types of
heavy handling equipment such as reach trucks, enabling them to work on less than perfect ground conditions. Some concreting and general surface improvements were carried out in the yard, however, mainly to determine and mark out areas that could bear the weight of double- stacked containers. The potential for storing containers or ISO Tanks, each containing around 24,000 litres of wine, has now expanded from 166 bays to 250, representing a massive increase in capacity with no requirement to purchase or lease extra space.
Each Combi-SC that is built in the factory in Monaghan is tailor-made to customer specifications, and The Park’s 35t capacity telescopic double stacking models feature a fixed fully automatic attachment to handle 20ft ISO Tanks and containers, which can also lift 40ft containers via chains if required. Weighing systems with an accuracy of +/-2% were also fitted, as were 129° cameras front and rear to ensure when the load is raised the driver has 360° visibility from the cab.
Richard Lloyd, General Manager, European Operations and Supply Chain comments: “The addition of the Combi-SC straddle carrier has enabled us to react to a dramatic decline in global shipping reliability and double our storage capability of wine, importantly within the same footprint. This change in capability is transformational for the site in meeting its customer demand on time.”
Euchner to showcase comms network guard locking at Drives & Controls 2022
Industrial safety engineering specialist Euchner (UK) Limited will use its stand (G120) at this year’s Drives & Controls exhibition to showcase its extensive range of guard locking products available for bus connection networking using protocols including EtherCAT, PROFINET and EtherNet/IP. One machinery safety solution the company is keen to highlight at the show is Euchner’s MGB/MGB2 (Multifunction Gate Box) which, by integrating modules including the EKS key systems, can go from being a simple interlocking/locking device, to a small control terminal. Commenting, Euchner’s UK&I Country Manager David Dearden says: “The combination of MGB and EKS can be used across multiple sectors and for numerous applications to ensure process efficiency, create access rights flexibility, increase personnel and process safety, safeguard product quality and create transparency and traceability.”
Euchner (UK) Ltd. 0114 256 0123
www.euchner.co.uk
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Combilift
www.combilift.com
http://www.thepark.info/
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