Hyster is giving customers more ways to select the best battery technology for their application with Sunlight Group lithium-ion batteries now an option for selected Hyster forklifts and warehouse trucks. The Sunlight Li.ION FORCE batteries, which will be available for selected 24V, 48V, and 80V lif...

CK Food Stores – the largest independent food retailer in South West Wales – has upgraded the material handling equipment at its Llanelli warehouse and distribution centre with the acquisition of a fleet of refurbished powered pallet trucks from the extensive range of Approved Used forklifts ava...

With effect from 1st January 2022, Natalie Dunleavy has taken over as Regional Manager for the support and coordination of all sales activities in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland at Clark Europe. Natalie Dunleavy is no stranger to Clark. She can already look back on 15 years of experience...

Wachendorff Automation, the encoder and measurement systems manufacturer, has launched a new variant of its well-proven industrial grade rotary encoders that feature a freely definable pulse count. The new WDGP series, available in the UK from Variohm EuroSensor, offers any number of output pulses f...

STILL will be presenting its new ACH series to the general public for the first time at the LogiMAT trade fair in Stuttgart from May 31 to June 2, 2022, in hall 10, stand B41/B51. In a realistic application scenario, the Hamburg-based intralogistics specialist will be demonstrating how the versatile...

The Supervisory Board of CargoBeamer, a European pioneer in decarbonising freight traffic, has appointed Nicolas Albrecht (33) as the Company’s new CEO. Albrecht joined the Executive Board in January 2020 as Chief Business Development Officer. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Weidemann (59), co-founder and former...

Under the motto “People and Goods on the move”, IAA TRANSPORTATION will take place from September 20th to 25th 2022 at the Deutsche Messe AG exhibition centre in Hanover. In addition to the presentation of new vehicles, the focus will be on logistics, transport and the digitalisation of commerci...

The pharmaceutical retail, wholesale and distribution sector is ‘in play’, as they say on the markets, writes Leigh Anderson (pictured), Managing Director at Bis Henderson Recruitment. The group around Lloyds Pharmacy (retail) and AAH Pharmaceuticals (wholesale) has been acquired by Aurelius; Wa...

Dr. Robert Habeck, Germany´s Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, has taken over patronage of the International Intralogistics and Forklift Truck of the Year (IFOY) AWARD. The IFOY AWARD is considered the most authoritative international innovation award in intralogistics. For t...

Briggs Equipment has completed the acquisition of Aerial Platform Hire Limited, one of Ireland’s leading powered access hire companies. Working from two sites in Clane, Co. Kildare and Mallow, Co. Cork, Aerial Platform Hire has an established reputation for delivering high quality powered access s...