While non-conveyable items, including those that are oversized, irregularly shaped or heavy, have always been an issue for sorting centres, they’ve become a particular problem over the last two years, as customers have flocked to ordering nearly all household goods online. Joe Szymborski, Design E...

Scott Automation is pleased and very proud to announce that it has signed a record deal to expand its materials handling business into North America. Scott will deliver its first fully automated warehousing system for one of the largest JBS’s beef processing facilities in Canada, with an estimated...

Infinium Logistics, a global logistics solutions business, announces that it has hired L&G’s Tom Gough as Investment Director; former Deliveroo, Amazon and Gett legal heavyweight, Chris Fletcher as General Counsel; and Amazon’s Ben Clark as Acquisitions Manager. The three strategic hires fol...

PFERD-Rüggeberg S.A., a leading brand in grinding tool solutions for treating surfaces and cutting materials, has extended its logistics warehouse in Júndiz, Álava, Spain entrusting in the industrial storage specialist AR Racking for the advice, design and installation of the warehouse extension....

Vanas Engineering has sold its very first OPEX® Sure Sort® automation solution in the Benelux to Lulubuy, Luxembourg, a global pioneer in progressive e-commerce distribution. Lulubuy plans to install the Sure Sort sorter in its warehouse to replace manual put walls. In early 2022, Vanas Engineerin...

Lödige Industries, a leader in air cargo terminals, has installed a new fully automated air cargo terminal at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport, China. The core of the new international cargo facility consists of two elevating transfer vehicles (ETVs) with a five-level, three-directional automat...

Frazer Watson, UK–Ireland Country Manager at AMR designer and manufacturer iFollow, examines how AMRs can contribute to improving safety in increasingly busy warehouses. The good news is that the UK is one of the safest countries in Europe in which to work, with consistently one of the lowest rate...

Ryan Lucas, CEO, DG International writes: The modern-day consumer has complex varied needs, and their expectations are changing fast. Amazon’s ‘everything-now-centric model’ has not only shifted the way we shop and interact with brands as consumers, but more crucially, how we behave as organi...

FourKites®, a leading real-time supply chain visibility platform, announces that it has seen a recovery in import and export ocean shipment volume at Chinese ports over the past weeks as COVID-19 lockdowns have eased. Volume at the Port of Shanghai has increased since mid-May, with the 14-day avera...