Quietly does it

The new 50,000ft2 ASDA retail site at
Romford, which is located in a
residential area near an apartment
block, has been equipped with a BT
Lifter Silent from Toyota following
complaints from local residents about
noise

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Handles drums, sacks and boxes

The ‘Lifts All’ air powered handling
system from lifting and handling
specialist, Dales, is said to be 90%
cheaper to run than traditional
vacuum tube lifters. Repetitive load
weight applications are effectively
rendere

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Uplifting modular system

The Lift & Drive modular
system from Pronomic is
ergonomically designed for
light material handling for
manufacturing, food, packing and
pharmaceutical industries. It aims to
reduce unnecessary manual
handling injuries

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Mobile harbour hoppers

Demag Cranes’ subsidiary,
Gottwald Port Technology, has
supplied two identical G HMH 750
DS Mobile Harbour Hoppers to the
Port of Tyne, Newcastle. Each of the
hoppers has a capacity of 750t per
hour and they are being u

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Lifting KnowHow

Supplier of steel wire rope and lifting
equipment Certex has launched a
‘Lifting KnowHow’ App designed to
enable customers to implement safer
lifting.

The App is available for use on
iPhones and iPads and includes a

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Manual handling advice

First time exhibitor Toyota will offer
companies advice on manual
handling as well as distributing free
resources to help improve safety in
the workplace. The Health & Safety
events are an important part of
Toyota’s saf

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Making a huge Impact

Danish company Hovmand
has added some new
products to its range
of intelligently-engineered moving
and lifting equipment, designed
specifically to eliminate the potential
problems of manual handling and
increase effici

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FSDF puts focus on safety

The Food Storage and
Distribution
Federation’s (FSDF)
Technical and Safety
Committee is putting a
firm focus on safety according to
chairman, Chris Sturman.

The committee has already
launched ‘The Loading Bay Safety

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Loading bay order

Stertil Stokvis has supplied and
installed eight loading bays for Royal
Mail Group as part of an exclusive
supplier three-year contract.

Opened in 2012, the 15,400m2
Mail Centre occupies a 5.4hectare
site on the edge

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Show some restraint

With continued economic uncertainty,
austerity remains the watchword for
the current Government. Yet,
according to loading and unloading
equipment specialist Thorworld
Industries, the best way for a logistics
company to

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