Safe handling of biomass
Energy companies see biomass as an alternative source of clean fuel that will help meet carbon reduction targets.
Energy companies see biomass as an alternative source of clean fuel that will help meet carbon reduction targets.
Space and speed were two key issues for Ace Express Logistics when it was looking to update the forklifts at one of its warehouses. These requirements were answered by using Aisle-Master articulated trucks, and the fifth of these has just been delivered to its 110,000ft² facilities near Dublin.
One of Ireland’s leading suppliers of timber and timber-based products, Cranwood Industries, has just added a fourth Combilift 4-way forklift to its fleet, having acquired its first – which is still going strong – in 2002.
Troax has offered a proven Anti-Collapse safety screen for pallet racking for some time, incorporating mesh panels installed using a steel bracket. Responding to increased demand from both the market and customers, Troax has now reinforced the system bracket on its Musca product.
A simple laminated leaflet, created to help fork lift engineers and competent persons explain the importance of a truly Thorough Examination, has needed to be reprinted – because so many operators, owners and users of fork lift trucks asked to keep it!
Fibrelite says it can now provide the perfect lightweight alternative to traditionally used heavy concrete and metal access covers for areas imposing particularly high wheel loads such as aircraft pavements, taxiways of civil airports and dockyards.
Power protection solutions Specialist Harland Simon UPS is launching a range of what it claims is the world’s cleanest, high performance, industrial batteries into the UK, enabling businesses to reduce the environmental, safety and performance impacts of using traditional lead acid and lead gel batteries.
Over the past 25 years, the UK’s forklift truck accident record has improved significantly. Working with – or alongside – lift trucks is far less dangerous than it’s ever been. But the latest workplace transport figures show that the rate of improvement has stalled.
iwis drive systems has been presenting SafeTopChain conveyor chains from Flexon for the first time at this year’s CeMAT in Hanover, Germany.
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