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UK’s Whistl Snaps Up Mail Workshop and Parcelhub

Logistics Business Magazine

Delivery specialist Whistl has acquired privately held Nottingham based Parcelhub and its sister company Mail Workshop. Mail Workshop was launched in 2003 and provides eCommerce shipping and fulfilment, printed matter fulfilment, picking and packing. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

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Flawless logistics at the click of a mouse

Logistics Business Magazine

Imagine that for a moment – no kinks in the warehouse chain, no costly errors, no unhappy customers, writes Paul Hamblin, editor of Logistics Business Magazine. Intelligent video cameras are placed in all relevant warehouse process areas: goods receiving, goods away, picking, packing, consolidation, loading. Flawless logistics.

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Auto Parts Packaging Automation

Logistics Business Magazine

The company operates leading online shops in five countries as well as a total of three specialist car markets with associated master workshops. one million customers per year, from professional mechanics to workshops and end users, trust kfzteile24. The Packing Lines are integrated in the Order Consolidation Areas.

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4-way Forklift for HMS Victory Conservation Project

Logistics Business Magazine

The vast amount of required material is stored in what were the old ropeworks, and includes 6.5 – 7m long packs of timber for making customised laminated slabs, steel mast sections that can be as long as 23m, as well as pallets of miscellaneous items such as ropes.

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Industry View: Where’s Secondary Packaging Going?

Logistics Business Magazine

To this end KHS is staging a number of workshops this year. Together we still have to work out how to close the gap here between recycling requirements on the one hand and the demand for packs of ever increasing quality on the other.”. The taut film gives us a good shrink pattern and a sturdy pack.”

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Optimal Spare Parts Storage Solution

Logistics Business Magazine

That is why the company holds 25 workshops in the network with the extra focus on agricultural areas in Skåne, Västra Götaland, Östergötland and Uppland. When goods are needed for an order, they are picked by a forklift or manually by an employee to be packed at the workstations for shipping. Local presence is crucial for Swedish Agro.

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Invar website walks businesses through digitalisation

Logistics Business Magazine

Craig Whitehouse, Managing Director of Invar Group, says: “We are witnessing a technological revolution in the warehouse – AI and robotics is transforming operational performance, particularly around dense storage, order assembly and packing.