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Big Box Buildings, part of the East Yorkshire based Big Box Group (operating throughout the UK), has been delivering a variety of temporary and more permanent buildings in double-quick time for companies looking for simple and affordable storage solutions. Ian Mackenzie, Director of Big Box Buildings, says the demand for temporary buildings – lightweight structures…
Wearables specialist ProGlove has partnered with Ivanti Wavelink, a leading global company in supply chain mobility solutions, to help organisations turn their warehouse management legacy systems into more modern, state-of-the-art technology. Through this partnership, businesses can benefit from an effortless transformation process that can be integrated right out of the box and hooks up ProGlove’s…
Docutech Office Solutions, the Manchester-based document management system provider, has secured a £7million, three-year contract to supply a cost-saving digital infrastructure to a UK leading retailer. The company has developed Docuflo – a bespoke document management system – to optimise the retailer’s warehouse processes and manage its warehouse inventory. The software also underpins its loss…
High-end accredited logistics are playing a key role in maintaining our love affair with authentic Italian food as the UK’s biggest importer of pasta continues to experience record demand for the wheat-based staple. From lasagne to linguini, fettucine to fusilli, demand for southern Italian pasta from the Naples region where it originated has continued beyond…
E-commerce fulfilment company Selazar has expanded its operations with the opening of a new state-of-the-art warehouse in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The investment will see the UK-based tech company increase its reach to all areas of the country via this prime geographical location. The new flagship warehouse offers what the company describes as the UK’s most accurate…
The June 2021 issue of Logistics Manager Magazine is now available to read online! Cover Story; Supply chain in the firing line? Saving costs as buyers move online will be essential for retailers’ future survival. Fashion, retail, and E-commerce; Are you creatively in tune with your reverse logistics? Intralogistics & Materials Handling; Order Picking; How are high-tech picking…
An online retailer – widely reported to be Amazon – has snapped up AEW UK Investment Management 512,500 ft2 Wakefield 515 mega warehouse in West Yorkshire. The property, built by Panattoni, has been pre-let on a five-year lease. It is currently under construction, on time and on budget, with completion expected in June 2021. The…
BITO Storage Systems will be highlighting its productive order picking technologies exclusively at the leading warehousing show, IntraLogisteX, on the 1st & 2nd July 2021. The exclusive show provides an opportunity to discuss with BITO experts on Stand 116, the latest intralogistics techniques and BITO systems created from shelving and racking, live storage, bins and…
Online retail giant Amazon has unveiled its new ‘innovation lab’ created to develop new technologies and enhance employee safety. The technologies being developed by the company follow the implementation of more than 350,000 Robotic Drive Units at several of the company’s sites across the world. The mobile drive units and four-sided yellow shelving towers are…
Industrial and logistics developer Goodman has won planning approval for a 106,000 ft2 warehouse at Lyons Park, Coventry in the West Midlands. The building features 12.5m eaves, 50m yard depth, 10 dock-level loading doors and 29 HGV spaces. It has been developed to a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ standard and targeting an A-rated EPC, key sustainability features…
Kite Packaging has announced official planning for its new site at Prospero Antsy Park, Coventry. The site is situated amongst prominent industry forerunners including Sainsbury’s, Meggitt, and Rolls-Royce. Spanning over 300,000 ft2 of logistics and a 26,000 ft2, Kite Packaging’s new site will consist of the company’s national distribution Centre and large-scale logistics organisation, online…
Körber has signed a deal with advanced autonomous forklift robot developer Balyo, to increase warehouse throughput and productivity. Körber will work with Balyo to integrate its range of robotics to overcome challenges associated with full pallets, bulk movements, and heavy goods. The technologies will also enhance employee safety and efficiency with the ‘stop-and-go’ features. A…
E-commerce delivery technology company Metapack, has partnered with location technology company what3words to streamline home deliveries. What3words’ location technology divides the world into a grid of 3-meter squares with each one labelled each one with a unique combination of three words. This means that every entrance has its own unique address, whether that’s a home…
Pallet-Track has signed a new lease on a a 150,000 ft2 warehouse in Wednessbury in the Blackcountry. Following a a record start to 2021, with growth of 16 per cent compared to the previous year, the new warehouse will enable to company to move an extra 4,000 pallets per night. The new facility on the…
Inadequate planning policy could be hindering the predicted boom in last-mile logistics according to planning and development consultancy Turley. While last mile logistics has largely been an urban-centric phenomenon, increasing online retail sales and the changing needs of businesses and communities post Covid-19 has seen demand for last mile logistics grow across the UK. However,…
The Supply Chain Conference, taking place online on 16th and 17th June, is 2021’s must-attend virtual event for industry professionals. It’s been a long road out of the pandemic but at last the end is in sight, albeit it has not been quite close enough to allow a physical conference this year. We’re nevertheless pleased…
The high street retail giant is set to shut 30 sites in ‘locations that can no longer support a store’. M&S has said that it will ‘recapture trade’ from store closures, through nearby stores and online sales. It added that it will reduce the number of full-line stores from 254 to 180. The company said…
Packaging is an important component of the online customer experience, yet many shippers discount this final supply chain step. As the first physical touch point a customer has after purchasing online, packaging often leaves a lasting impression, be it good or bad. The online shopping boom comes with an Increase in customer expectations as companies…
Panattoni and Legal & General’s Industrial Property Investment Fund (IPIF) are to speculatively develop a three-unit warehouse scheme in Basingstoke after acquiring an 11-acre site. The new scheme on the former Motorola factory site, will accommodate three net carbon zero warehouses of 40,209 ft2, 77,548 ft2 and 96,302 ft2. Known as V Park, the mid-box…
Amazon is thought to have secured two new warehouses in the Midlands totalling more than 1 million ft2. The online retail giant has been linked with two properties at Magna Park Lutterworth one, which it will occupy direct and the other it will use via a 3PL. It is thought to have secured BentallGreenOak’s recently…
Location data and technology platform HERE Technologies, has partnered with medical technology company Siemens Healthineers, to optimise its logistics and supply chain operations. To address the problem of lost parts throughout the supply chain, and reduce wasted time, Siemens enlisted HERE Technologies to design a shipment visibility technology for tracking and monitoring of location, as…
WMS technology innovator, SnapFulfil, is again leading the way with two pioneering initiatives that have already been hailed ‘game-changing’ by customers. A unique Remote Implementation (RI) programme means its award-winning software can be onboarded from anywhere in the world, within just a matter of weeks, while SnapBuddy is an AI-style training tool, which ultimately enables…
Tony Dobson, UK & Europe CEO for WMS technology innovator, SnapFulfil, discusses his career path, e-commerce, WMS advances, what excites him about intralogistics, rabbit holes and what the company will be launching at IntraLogisteX 2021, taking place on 1st and Snd July at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry Could you please give me a little…
Knight Property Group has secured its first tenant at Phase 1 of its new Langlands Commercial Park in East Kilbride. Environmental consultant, Jax Asbestos Solutions has agreed a ten-year lease on Unit 1D, which extends to 2,500 ft2. The company specialises in asbestos removal across the UK. Sean Cameron, Asbestos Specialist of Jax Asbestos Solutions…
See how using AI-Based travel optimisation can double productivity – Inside Stories From Three DCs. Join us to hear the inside story of how three DCs used AI-based optimisation tools to increase picking productivity up to 122 percent by dramatically reducing travel. The three facilities profiled in this webinar are a multinational medical products distributor;…
Food ingredient supplier and distributor Kent Foods has paid Barberry Industrial £9.4 million for a freehold warehouse in Daventry, Northamptonshire. It has bought the speculatively developed warehouse known as Barberry72 as its new Midlands regional distribution centre in order to facilitate its expansion. The 73,257 ft2 property has been developed on the 3.5-acre site of…
Pan-European logistics building development company Baytree is to construct ‘one of the most sustainable logistics developments ever built in the UK’ in Milton Keynes. The company has awarded a contract to Glencar Construction to deliver the new, state-of-the-art sustainable logistics scheme on a 10.4-acre site in Fenny Lock. Jonathan Fenton Jones, Baytree Operations Director said:…
Glenny, on behalf of LGIM Real Assets (Legal & General Investment Management), has leased the final two units at Boxset Basildon in a deal totalling almost 140,000 ft2. Boxset Basildon is a speculative development of 3 high specification and energy efficient warehouse buildings, featuring first floor offices.The site also features deep yards from 48-57m, tall…
Ergonomic wearable technology expert and IntraLogisteX exhibitor, ProGlove, has added a new process analytics capability to increase workflow improvements. This extension pushes ProGlove’s initiative to provide an entire ‘ecosystem’ of technologies that improve efficiency on the shop floor while strengthening the role of employees. ProGlove Insight collects a unique set of data by using its…
Cognex, a specialist in industrial machine vision, has created a platform that provides barcode reading performance monitoring to prevent downtime. After installation, Cognex’s EI software begins to collect device data and displays the results in visual dashboards. Customers can use this data to analyse performance trends, monitor configuration changes, and capture no-read and failed validation…
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