GPS tracking data has been used to prove that a UK sandwich maker, Authentic Bite Ltd, was using baskets and dollies belonging to bakery equipment company Bakers Basco without permission. The technology played a major role in the investigation and subsequent court case which saw Authentic Bite fined nearly £7,000 and made to sign an agreement not to misuse the equipment again.

Hyundai Heavy Industries Europe (HHIE), with the support of the UK’s Hyundai forklift dealer network, is using the IMHX exhibition to launch a brand new warehouse equipment range. The new range includes electric Ride-On and Pedestrian Warehouse trucks with a lifting capacity from 1.5 to 2 tonnes. Also new on the Hyundai stand will be the brand new 16BRJ-9 electric reach truck.

One of the UK’s leading food companies, the Addo Food Group, says investment in new Mitsubishi GRENDiA ES forklifts is helping feed their ravenous production lines and maximise production of over 256 million of the nation’s best-loved pork pies, sausage rolls, pasties and Scotch eggs. Faced with an ageing fleet, the Dorset Foods division – where hundreds of thousands of the UK’s Scotch eggs are baked and fried – sought out a very specific type of forklift truck to deal with their conditions on site.

Goobal logistics company Samskip has completed a major environmental protection project through subsidiary frigoCare, installing the largest solar panel system in the port of Rotterdam as part of its Sustainability Strategy. The initiative has been undertaken in partnership with Dutch renewable energy company Zon Exploitatie Nederland (ZEN), working in close cooperation with the Port of Rotterdam Authority.

Lord Heseltine, UK Government local growth adviser and chair of the Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission, has welcomed the potential of the Port of Sheerness to contribute further to economic development in the area. The Commission’s delegation met representatives of the port’s operators, Peel Ports, to hear about the company’s vision for new infrastructure on the River Medway.

IMHX 2016, the essential intralogistics event for supply chain professionals, now has over 250 exhibitors booked – over a year before it takes place.

As a result the event, which is taking place from 13-16 September 2016 at the NEC Birmingham, is predicted to be the biggest ever. Rob Fisher, Director of Informa Exhibitions’ Materials Handling Group and IMHX organiser explains: “That we have over 250 exhibitors booked for IMHX 2016 is amazing given that the event is still over a year away.

“When we compare bookings made so far versus those made at the same time prior to IMHX 2013, when the event last took place, we are around six months ahead in terms of both numbers of exhibitors, and space booked. This leads us to believe that this could be the biggest IMHX so far.”

Aleading British egg supplier is one of a number of companies to appoint LPR UK to manage its nationwide pallet movements. Sunrise Eggs, which has been supplying eggs to businesses of all sizes for around fifty years, will work with LPR to further boost its distribution capabilities. The UK division of LPR, the European pallet-pooling specialist, is working with Sunrise Eggs for the first time and is drawing on its extensive experience, including work with some of the world’s leading FMCG brands, including: Nestlé, Weetabix and Carlsberg.

Uk--based plastic pallet supplier Exporta Global has launched the nestable PLUS Pallet to replace its best-selling SP1210 range. While the cost remains the same as its predecessor, the PLUS Pallet is capable of carrying up to 25 per cent more weight – up to 1 tonne from 800 kg. The PLUS Pallet will also stack 60 pallets to one stack, rather than 52 pallets with the SP1210 range, meaning shipping costs can be reduced by 15 per cent.

In  addressing eco-challenging landfill waste issues, more and more companies are looking for ways to "go green" with their packaging products by leveraging eco-friendly, sustainable, biodegradable, or natural alternatives. Midwest Precision Products, Inc, based in Ohio, USA, has provided retractable, reusable, self-contained cargo restraints for material handling applications since 1992. In a continuing effort to advance sustainable packaging solutions, MPP has been collaborating with one of the oldest thermoforming and structural foam moulding companies in Michigan, Robinson Industries, to create eco-friendly systems that combine their “Seatbelts for Pallets” with Robinson’s returnable synthetic pallets.

According to the latest JLL report on warehouse market in Poland for the first half of 2016, the industry is breaking another record. Demand reached a historical level of 1 312 000 m2 with supply at 615 000 m2, writes Maria Piedziewicz of EuropaProperty. This means growth of 150 000 m2 in comparison with the same period of 2015. These record results were reached mainly due to two factors: take-up from the logistic and retail sectors, and low rental levels