This year, the IFOY AWARD Night will be hosted by the BMW Group. The awards ceremony will take place on 30th June at BMW Welt in Munich. The trophies of the IFOY AWARD 2022 (International Intralogistics and Forklift Truck of the Year) will be ceremoniously presented to the winners of the intralogist...

PALLITE, an award-winning international designer and manufacturer of 100% recyclable high-density storage units, has launched to the US market with a new manufacturing base in Milwaukee and a presence at the MODEX trade show. Building on its existing global success, PALLITE’s innovative storage un...

Datalogic S.r.l. has acquired the entire share capital of Pekat S.r.o. With its registered office in Brno in the Czech Republic, Pekat is a start-up founded by Petr Smid, the majority shareholder of the company, who has developed proprietary algorithms that use machine learning and deep learning for...

The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked the merger between Cargotec and Konecranes. According to the CMA’s final report issued today (29th March), the remedies – which would have removed all overlapping businesses of the two companies and were accepted by the European Commis...

Fen-Bay Group, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of industrial doors and loading bays which includes Lincolnshire-based Fen-Bay Services and Doncaster-based Transdek, has been acquired by Hörmann UK. The move will see ongoing investment in the group, which will now be part of Hörmann, Europe’s...

Lucas Systems, a leading provider of voice and warehouse optimisation software for fulfilment and distribution centres, has formed a partnership with Silicon Valley-based Fetch Robotics to enable the next generation of smart warehouses. Through the partnership, Lucas and Fetch will offer tailored so...

FedEx Express has now made its international, day-definite e-commerce service available to customers in 24 European countries with connections to 47 markets worldwide. After a successful 10-market launch in 2021 (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands...

Chiltern Distribution claims to have found the ‘sweet spot’ for truck tyre performance thanks to Michelin’s fuel-saving Energy tyre ranges, which it specified as original equipment across 19 new trucks which have entered service during the last year. The net result of its move to low rolling r...

Specialist temperature controlled 3PL provider, Moran Logistics, has seen its production output ramp up eight-fold since switching to the technologically advanced, cloud-based SnapFulfil WMS. Moran’s 100,000 sq ft Castle Donington HQ in Derbyshire, UK is central to its nine-site multi-drop and tru...

With supply chain disruption remaining a consistent problem for shippers around the world, GEODIS has introduced a fully integrated and customised logistics service designed to withstand the unpredictability of today’s global trade environment. Flexibility is key to achieving consistent reliabilit...