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Cold Robots for Cold Chain Logistics

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This has become critically important given how issues such as Brexit, the pandemic, war in Ukraine and the weather have each highlighted the role chilled and frozen warehousing has in creating resilience in our food supply chains; not forgetting of course how Covid revealed the centrality of low temperature storage in medicine and pharmacology.

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Robots Revolutionize Cold Chain Logistics

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There are technical issues – operation at low, and especially sub-zero, temperatures, can embrittle and otherwise degrade materials including metals, plastics and rubber tires. Batteries, in particular, have degraded performance and shorter lives at low temperatures. Not all AMRs can work in cold storage.

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UniCarriers wins cold chain award

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As the UK’s active and growing forklift provider for frozen and chilled operations, UniCarriers offers a full range of forklift trucks optimised for use in temperature-controlled areas. Of course, the truck is not the only TCS&D star – UniCarriers solutions and levels of service not only meets, but also exceeds customer expectations.

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Air Cargo Pharma Benchmarking Initiative

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Air freight experts at Tim Consult have launched the special Market Intelligence Initiative ‘MII Pharma Air Cargo’, aimed at providing pharmaceutical industry specialists with a trusty guide through the labyrinthine world of temperature-controlled global air freight markets. So the data is fully grounded in the business.

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Cold Storage Warehouse Fire Safety

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While it may seem counterintuitive that fire is even a risk in spaces designed to maintain cold temperatures, cold storage in fact presents a huge fire hazard for warehouse designers and builders, life safety installation companies and facility owners. So as the demand for refrigerated products grows, so does the need for better fire safety.

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Flexi highlights sustainability goals to distributors

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Of course, lead acid batteries remain a highly efficient option for electric forklifts and many electric Flexi Truck lift trucks still feature this type of battery. Maguire added: “We see it as essential that our product offering constantly evolves and, of course, sustainability drives much of our research and development thinking.

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Vaccine Transport Protection

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Temperature-controlled transport specialist Thermo King is ready to meet the challenge of storing COVID-19 vaccines, which are likely to require extreme conditions beyond anything previously. It’s because it’s about maintaining the temperature the vaccines need to be transported and stored at,” she explains from her office in Brussels.