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FOREWORD
Contemporary trends
in logistics
By Professor Michael Bourlakis Chair in Logistics and Supply Chain
Management at Cranfield School
of Management and Director of the
Supply Chain Research Centre.
This article will analyse the key
contemporary trends and challenges
faced by logistics and transportation
managers. Its aim is not to provide
an exhaustive view but to illustrate a
range of topical issues as perceived by
the author. Specifically:
2. Sustainability
Supply chain members have
implemented sustainability in various
aspects of their operations aiming to
produce relevant social, economic and
environmental benefits. Sustainability
can be considered from the pure
operational / functional perspective
(warehousing, transportation etc) and
/ or the natural resource perspective
(e.g. energy, water, minerals etc).
Sustainability can be also considered
from an interdisciplinary perspective
aiming to examine its three pillars
in a holistic and integrated manner.
Sustainability is the focus of two
projects funded by the European
Union where researchers from
the Centre of Logistics and Supply
Chain Management at Cranfield
School of Management have a major
involvement: a) the SCALE project
aiming to develop new collaborative
frameworks to enable the improvement
of the efficiency and sustainability of
food logistics operations
(http://www.projectscale.eu/partners),
and b) the CO3 project where the focus
is on achieving competitiveness and
sustainability by promoting horizontal
collaboration between European
shippers (http://www.co3-project.eu/).
3. Transportation
Transportation has been always
considered a key function in supply
chains for, inter alia, its critical role
in connecting various supply chain
members and supporting other
key logistics operations such as
warehousing. Transportation has
received major attention the past
years from industry, society and other
stakeholders due to its critical role in
sustainability issues and its contribution
to a better quality of life and well-being
for consumers and citizens (e.g. better
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CONTENTS
IN THIS ISSUE OF
E-commerce impact
by Sam Tulip.
14 Blue cooling
66 Tyre specialities
management
24 A north-western approach
by Tracy Powell
44 Deep-freeze logistics
in perfection
52 Future sorting
components
Packaging, Pallets
& Green Logistics
74 Rolling forward the future
management
80 Picture an exhibition
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ISSN: 1367-0212
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warehouse
38 Platform to convey
logistics
68 Complementary
36 Conveying power
42 Aerosols in an automatic
Forklifts news.
20 Export help
warehousing
34 Effective logistics
40 Highly competent
by Alex Cottard
16 European gateway
08 Indonesia
31/07/2014 11:43
Best in
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power of a diesel engine. With upto 28 per cent lower consumption than its
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E-tailing impact
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E-tailing impact
The only
restrictions on
online retailing
will be imposed
by the logistics
infrastructure,
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Indonesian Logistics
Indonesia:
By Mike King
Rising demand is
creating a situation in
which companies are
poaching staff.
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REGIONAL PROFILE
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Manufacturers are
looking for options
outside China where
it is now more
expensive
Indonesia is touted by many as the
next China for growth and this term
means huge potential for logistics
companies as well, said Chan.
Indonesia has a population of 250
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Saurkrkur
Akureyri
Grundartangi
Reykjavk
Ume
Vestmannaeyjar
Sundsvall
lesund
Mntyluoto
Larvik
Fredrikstad
Katrineholm
Norrkping
Kristiansand
Gteborg
St. Petersburg
Helsinki
Moscow
Riga
lmhult
Helsingborg
Aarhus
Klaipeda
Ahus
Copenhagen
Belfast
Cuxhaven
Hull
Dublin
Immingham
Waterford
Hamburg
(Oder)
Duisburg
Tilbury
Mainz
Ludwigshafen
Mannheim
Neuf-Brisach
Melzo
Novara
Genova
Gijon
Padova
Trieste
Bratislava
Budapest
Curtici
Verona
Bucharest
Bologna
Bilbao
Barcelona
Leixoes
Busto
Basel
Warsaw
Wroclaw
Cologne
Antwerp
Gdansk
Poznan/
Gadki Kutno
Frankfurt
Cork
Vigo
Gdynia
Lbeck
Bremerhaven
Ust-Luga
Tallinn
Oxelsund
Nassj
Varberg
Grangemouth
Kotka
Stockholm
Moss
Brevik
Stavanger
Rauma
Gvle
Oslo
Bergen
Bari
Istanbul (Pendik)
Pomezia
Madrid
Valencia
Thessaloniki
Athens
Lisbon
Korinthe
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Container Shipping
Blue Cooling
Bluezone is a technology that has demonstrated effectiveness
in extending fresh produce shelf life, reducing product loss
and maintaining product quality, writes Gino Baldissari.
Initially developed for the US Army,
Bluezone technology this year became
subject to the necessary steps for
being applied to the commercial
shipping sector. An achievement
made possible through a partnership
between Primaira LLC, a Boston-based
technology company, and Maersk
Container Industry (MCI), the container
manufacturing unit of the A.P.
Moller-Maersk Group.
Bluezone is a patented technology
that, thanks to extensive tests and
trials, has shown efficient elimination
of molds, fungi and bacteria, by using
an ozone concentration 300 times
higher than otherwise seen on the
market, achieving the highest levels
fresh preservation in a cost effective,
efficient and reliable configuration.
MCI and Primaira have partnered
to integrate the Bluezone into Star
Cool containers, the refrigerated
units manufactured by the Danish
transport operator. In the words of MCI
chief commercial officer, Soren Leth
Johannsen, this integration involves an
enormous change in the market.
The economic and environmental
gains of converting todays airfreight
into reefer containers are possible
thanks to the integration of Bluezone
with MCIs well-known CA and AV+
systems (Controlled Atmosphere and
Automatic Ventilation), increasing the
geographical reach of containerized
transport and preserving the quality of
fruit and vegetables.
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CONTACT
Commercial Direction
commercial@portdedunkerque.fr
Tl : +33 3 28 28 77 20
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PORT PROFILE
European Gateway
Following on from our attendance at the annual Port of Dunkerque press event back in
February Alex Cottard caught up with the ports Commercial Director, Daniel Deschodt to
see how 2014 was progressing.
Looking at the first quarter of 2014 the
overall global scale activities for the
port of Dunkerque were very good.
As forecasted in early 2014, the port
continues to show strong commercial
activity, with the only exception being
that of the coal activity which was
the result of a mildly warm winter
compared to yester years.
Focussing on a positive note, iron
ore activity for the steel industry has
remained strong, along with liquid bulk
activity, container activity, and ferry
services. Deschodt also emphasised
the, two figure increase on overall
activity from the first quarter of this year
compared to last years first quarter.
When asked about their main focus for
this years commercial activity, short
sea activity instantly became a talking
point. For the port, they see this area
of their operations as a key element,
and with the main season lasting from
November to May, no doubt we shall
soon see how successful these efforts
have been this year.
The channel route between the Port of
Dunkerque and Morocco is currently
a strong trading route, with the
exportation of fruit of vegetables and
French export of manufacturing goods,
construction goods heading in the
opposite direction.
Six months on from the press
conference in Lille, the desire and
ambition to attract new investors to the
port still very much remains. With 200
hectors dedicated for redevelopment,
the port certainly holds the capacity
and infrastructure for new companies
to relocate and begin new trading
routes.
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Regional Hub
Since at least the Bronze Age, the Humber estuary has been the natural point of entry for traffic
from Northern Europe to most of the British Isles, and the Humber ports (which include Hull,
Goole and Immingham) still handle 17% of British maritime trade, some 83 million tonnes, more
than any other port group in the UK.
to Hull can for most of the UK be very
competitive with container traffic via
Felixstowe or Southampton. As well
as North West Europe Neill and Brown
offers weekly services with Italy and
Spain and there is a lot of business with
the Far East. Happily, Brown reports
that export traffic is also busy.
efficient, competitive,
personal service.
Not everyone
wants cheap
Still serving the ports after over
95 years is Neill & Brown Global
Logistics. CEO Peter Brown tells
Logistics Business that the company
has flourished during the recession,
with 10-15% growth year on year over
the past four years and a workforce
almost doubling to 110. The firm offers
200,000ft2 of fully-racked warehouse
storage, and in a 2.5 million
investment, backed by the Local
Enterprise Partnership, is building a
new 40,000ft2 warehouse at Marfleet
which will create a further 26 jobs.
Brown says that, People who ten
years ago were moving out of Hull are
now moving back - they are getting
the message that the local economy is
worth supporting and will support them
back. In addition, blue chip companies
in Hull who have previously used large
national and international carriers are
reconsidering the advantages of the
service offered by local handlers.
The key to success is, efficient,
competitive, personal service. Not
everyone wants cheap - they want
to pay a reasonable price for a good
service. That may, he concedes,
involve, doing a lot more for the same
money or a bit less.
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REGIONAL PROFILE
Electric
evolution
The new Kalmar electric forklift truck is built for heavy-duty work, by the
heavy-duty expert. Enjoy a life cycle cost like never before, with maintenance
costs cut by 50 percent and energy costs by 75 percent, compared an the
equivalent diesel forklift. Not to mention the clean and fresh air in your plant.
So why not join the electric evolution? www.kalmarglobal.com
Kalmar Truck
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Express Logistics
Export Help
UK SMEs are urged to take
advantage of global trading
opportunities
The age of Internet trading has opened up a whole new world
of business opportunities, choice and buying power to the
commercial world, writes Chris Price-White.
With the above in mind one
importantUKbusiness community has
been advised to take heed and expand
beyond its usual trading borders. The
world of the SME (small and medium
enterprises) has changed immeasurably
since the rise of Internet trading and
B2B status. Communicating with new
customers and closing deals can be
done in minutes thanks to the power
of the Internet, but when it comes to
the logistics of getting your goods
forwarded and looking further
afield at global marketplaces
then the game does indeed
change beyond recognition.
Logistics expert FedEx has
recently commissioned and
published a report titled the
Great British Export Report,
offering a ground-breaking
insight into the export
behaviour of UK businesses.
According to the first edition of
the report, based on the views
of 1,000 SMEs, only one quarter
of UK SMEs are currently
internationally active, with a
third (35%) of UK businesses identifying
tapping into new markets as essential to
their success in the next twelve months.
However, more than half (51.9%) of the
1,000 UK SMEs surveyed said they
would require more support to achieve
this. Trevor Hoyle (pictured) is the
Vice-President of Operations for UK
and Ireland and he is urging UK SMEs
to take heed of the reports findings.
At FedEx we do a lot of work with UK
SMEs, says Hoyle.
Not only have we set up a specialist
team, based in Coventry, to offer advice
and consultation to customers wanting
to dip their toe into the export market,
but we also have access to a huge
network of over 3,000 international
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REGIONAL PROFILE
www.mobiconsystems.com
LIVERPOOL2
Liverpool2 is a new 300 million container terminal that will reaffirm the Port of Liverpool as
the UKs leading transatlantic port. Once completed in 2015, it will enable direct market
connections to the Americas, India, Far East, Caribbean, Mediterranean and the Baltics.
Liverpool2 will be the UKs most centrally located deep water container terminal,
connecting larger vessels with the UKs industrial, manufacturing and consumer heartland.
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Warehouse Equipment
Back-of-store equipment
Wanzl UK Group has been awarded
a contract, for an undisclosed sum,
to supply a range of back-of-house
equipment solutions to The Cooperative Group. The roll-out to
stores throughout the UK has now
commenced and will continue through
to the end of the year. Wanzl UKs
L&I specialist, Gareth Dando, said
this important breakthrough contract
win for the L&I division demonstrated
Wanzls growing strength as a volume
supplier to the top tier of UK retail and,
firmly established our KT2 and KT3
range as a preferred choice of stock
trolley in this competitive market.
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We now deliver
REGIONAL PROFILE
Peter Dorne
Logistics Manager
www.mobiconsystems.com
Design
Consultancy
On-site training
Q.A.
Surveying and testing
Manual floor grinding
Superflat floor grinding with the patented Laser Grinder
Ultraflat floor grinding with the Laser Grinder XPT
Bespoke tolerance grinding
Floor joint repairs
Floor joint stabilising
Wire guidance
Re-surfacing of worn out floors
General floor surface grinding
Screed systems
Floor repair & maintenance products
www.cogrigroup.com
COLD LOGISTICS
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18/07/2014 14:29:52
Port Profile
By Chris Price-White,
Contributing Editor
A Bright future
This event was also viewed as a huge
success by the Merseyside Maritime
Association with the Associations
chairman John Hulmes delighted with
the shipping and freight forwarding
industries response to the event.
This was a very late addition to the
International Festival of Business but
one that we felt was essential, says
Hulmes.
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PORT PROFILE
Showing expertise
Huck says that the bravado shown
at the beginning of the project was
measured and calculated. When we
broached the project we knew that our
expertise in handling steel coils, our
lean towards automation and indeed
our geographical position made the
project an exciting proposition and
something that is now showing its
merit.
Peel Ports 3m investment program
to upgrade the existing Gladstone
Steel Terminal (named after Britains
finest Prime Minister who was born in
Liverpool) with Caregos automated
facility management system, includes
an upgrade of the Gladstone
Steel Terminal warehouse and the
introduction of automated cranes that
have doubled gantry crane capacity.
The employment of the fully-automated
Carego FMS (facility management
system) and Carego IMS (inventory
management system) enables real time
stock visibility through reporting and
web portals and that has improved
the booking process for outbound
steel and the reporting of inventory
management and hub capacity levels.
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FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
Effective logistics
management
by David Phillips, Logistics Director at HSS Hire Group
At HSS Hire, we operate from over
250 locations across the UK and
Ireland, providing complete equipment
management and hire services to big
businesses, trade and DIY customers.
Were all about making sure our
customers have whatever they need
to get the job done, wherever and
whenever they need it, so I cant
emphasise enough just how important
logistics is to the smooth functioning
and success of our business and to
ensuring we are able to deliver for our
customers.
We do a lot of work with customers in
the Facilities Management sector and
in turn, they often have very stringent
SLAs to deliver on for their own
customers, so its important that we
make sure the kit they need from us
is always available when they need it,
and that it always arrives ready to use.
Its essential that we have a logistics
network that can support this.
Since 2011, our network has been
organised into 10 regional distribution
centres, 25 local distribution centres
and over 200 local format branches
supported by a National Distribution
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CONVEYING TECHNOLOGY
Platform to convey
At CeMAT Hannover David Priestman
met Michael Kuhn, Managing Director
of Interroll Automation GmbH in
Sinsheim, Germany to learn about the
companys new modular conveyor
platform for internal logistics.
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Highly competent
At CeMAT Hannover, in May, David Priestman interviewed a
panel of Directors from a leading storage systems provider.
META Regalbau, of Arnsberg,
Germany are in many ways an
archetypal German mittelstand
original equipment manufacturer
(OEM) in the materials handling
industry. Employing over 400, with
a projected turnover this year of
100m, the company is growing 5-10%
per year and, having been a major
player in central Europe for years,
is now focused on being successful
internationally.
Dr Klaus Vatter is Managing Director
of META. I asked him about his
vision for the companys future.
We have a high competency in
shelving and ecommerce storage, as
well as strong project management
credentials. Our expertise ranges
from storing hazardous materials
to office equipment, archive and
volume storage but we are always
adapting products. Were members of
DIBT (German Institute of Technical
Building), which certifies storage safety
and gives customers confidence in the
installation quality and timeliness. This
carries weight in Germany but perhaps
doesnt have sufficient international
recognition. Were investing highly
in tools that can calculate installation
progress and provide visualisation, 3D
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Warehouse Automation
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Automatic Warehouse
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Integration in Warehouse
Processes
The new automatic warehouse is
connected to the other warehouse
activities by means of an optimized
materials handling process. Most goods
arrive by rail at the warehouses own
train unloading terminal. Employees
scan delivered pallets and thereby
notify the warehouse management
system (WMS) what goods have arrived
and need to be stored. The WMS in
turn notifies employees which pallets
are to be stored in existing block
storage areas and which are destined
for the automatic warehouse. The
system is configured in such a way
that fast-moving goods are largely sent
to the block storage area, which also
keeps a minimum stock of all articles.
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Logistics in Perfection
Heavily hooded forklift operators, who
navigate in -20C with their narrowaisle-reach truck through deep-freeze
warehouse aisles and pick pallets for
order processing? At Mydibel S.A. this
belongs to the past. Like that, we
have done the storage for production
and sales up to 15 hours per day at
5 different locations, explains Dries
Seynaeve, head of the new Mydibel
distribution center in the Belgian city
of Mouscron. From there, the familyowned company founded in 1988
supplies frozen potato products to
the food sector, trade chains, industry
and catering companies in more than
75 countries. The past configuration
required around 20 employees, says
Seynaeve. Four trucks commuted
between the locations up to 75km
away from each other. This had no
bearing on modern storage.
It was time and cost-consuming,
bound resources and resulted in a
large effort to guarantee a continuous
cold chain. Against this background
Mydibel decided to consolidate
storage capacities into one new,
modern logistics facility at the
production location in Mouscron. With
its implementation, the processes
should be automated and optimized as
much as possible. After an international
tender, the intra-logistics specialists
SSI Schaefer received the contract
to develop the logistics concept for
the automated warehousing, which
included the detailed engineering
and turn-key implementation
of a high-bay warehouse
along with the
conveying system
connection
to the
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Systems Integration
Logistics of the
future at -24C
1.3 million people a day in Germany
and across Europe enjoy meals
from apetito. apetito has 8900
employees worldwide and sales of
733m. Our existing deep-freeze
warehouse with an order picking
system at the Rheine site was 35
years-old. The capacity reserves of
the system were exhausted at peak
times, states Guido Hildebrandt,
director of sales and marketing at
apetito. The expansion called for a
new and considerably more powerful
intralogistics system.
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Handling Systems
Future sorting
Beumer Group is an international
leader in the manufacture of
intralogistics systems for conveying,
loading, palletising, packaging,
sortation and distribution. Together
with Crisplant a/s and Enexco
Teknologies India Limited, the Group
employs 3700 and 2013 turnover
was 627m. Martin Mossinkoff, the
Sorting and Distribution Technology
units worldwide Director of Logistics
Systems, talks about market trends.
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Industrial Trucks
However, the relationship between
management and ownership has been,
and still remains one of co-operation
and mutual understanding. Bulmors
CEO, Dr Julian Ptzl, told me that, the
company has financial stability along
with the support and backing from the
family ownership. Reassuring words
indeed for this ambitious and driven
organisation.
Financial stability is key, as any
corporation will tell you, but with
Bulmors continuous attempts to lift
their own standards, this does require
financial security. Having seen Bulmor
at shows such as LogiMAT and CeMAT
during the year, it evidently points to
their goal to become one of the major
international players in the sideloader
industry.
As standard, each truck will work
between 40 50 hours per week
with the life span exceeding 10 years.
Therefore each truck must be able
to withstand the constant bending,
stretching and manoeuvring that are
required throughout its working life.
Each truck feels solid and reliable
with a sense of being mass produced
which is high praise for a hand built
manufacturer. Just over 300 trucks
leave the factory floor each year, with
the electric trucks going up to 8 tonnes.
Currently, Bulmors portfolio of trucks
ranges from 3 to 25 tonne capacity
which spans across all of the engine
variations of LPG, diesel, and electric.
Impressively, the production process
doesnt finish there. The company has
the capability to design a unique order
picking solution that is both safe and
efficient, whilst able to move and lift
equipment of any shape and size.
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Discover more at
www.enersys-emea.com/motive
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FORKLIFT TECHNOLOGY
The X-Factor
for future warehousing
Logistics Business reports on 4 OEMs
of industrial and warehouse trucks to
glimpse into the future.
Visitors to CeMAT Hannover in May
saw the concept vehicle cubeXX
live in action at the Still pavilion. The
multi-functional vehicle was developed
based on logistics megatrends and
was first presented as a concept study
as early as 2011. Its flexibility makes
it part of the shared research project
Hub2Move with the Fraunhofer Institute
for material flow and logistics (IML).
Fully-automated warehouses can be
fairly inflexible and barely adaptable.
When processes or goods change,
elaborate planning is necessary to
develop new solutions; old plants/
parts may need to be removed and
new systems installed. For this reason,
companies with hard-to-plan or very
volatile businesses must employ
numerous staff and conventional
storage areas in order to balance out
capacity fluctuations or changes in item
or order structure.
The future hub (a movable handling
centre) is to be easily adjusted to
changing requirements. Handling,
conveyor and storage technology in
the hub should be adaptable to new
requirements within a few days. A
compete hub should also be able to
run at a new site within a few weeks.
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Ironclad is the square tube traction battery to meet the demands of even the toughest, heavy-duty applications. Ironclad
batteries outperform other batteries with up to 15% more power, particularly at the higher discharge rates demanded by modern
AC drive trucks. Ironclad has a design life of 1,800 cycles, which equates to an extra year of life in many applications.
Ironclad, the square tube revolution.
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EH Europe GmbH Lwenstrasse 32
8001 Zrich Switzerland - Phone: +41 44 215 74 10
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AGVs
The last
revolution in logistics
The world is always looking for more
and more technology developments:
computer size has decreased
dramatically in the last decades;
our cells can be controlled just by
touching their screens and can
connect nearly everywhere to our
email accounts or favorite web sites.
Many technological advances have
changed the lives we used to have.
In this atmosphere ASTI, after many
years working closely with companies,
has come to this question:
Why pay for technology that
is not necessary to perform
certain tasks? Things could be
simplified, eased and much
more important - cheaper.
This was the beginning of the
latest of ASTIs developments:
the Basic AGC (pictured).
This small vehicle has been
conceived to perform as a
towing AGV, to transport cart
trains, what makes it ideal to
carry out the automatic supply
of components in assembly
chains.
The reduced size of this
machine and its capability
to execute complicated
manoeuvers configure this
vehicle as one of the few
AGVs in the market able to
follow complex routes with
narrow curves. Despite its
toy-like appearance, it has
been designed to tow up to
250kg and reach the speed
of 30m/sec perfect to work
in an industrial environment
as the biggest of the machines. In
consonance with this simplicity, the
basic AGC uses magnetic guidance to
set the routes implementing them with
RFID tags to set differentiated areas
into the layout.
With the magnetic guidance the routes
are marked just by taping a magnetic
band on the floor. At the same time the
vehicle is equipped with a magnetic
antenna to detect this band and
therefore follow it along the prefixed
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As maintenance can be as
important as performance,
this vehicle counts with an
external diagnosis tool, where
the last read tag enables the
AGVs performance to be examined
and studied. In addition, this tool can
be used to reprogram the tags and
therefore to reconfigure the routes.
The Basic AGC was launched into the
market at CeMAT 2014, where it was
seen in action moving a small cart and
showing some of its attributes.
www.asti.es
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FORKLIFT TYRES
Tyre specialities
At CeMAT David Priestman interviewed Bernd Zimmermann, Head of
Operations for Continentals Commercial Speciality Tyres division, to
learn about the trends and issues for industrial truck tyres.
Zimmermann is responsible for R&D
and quality traits that the giant
Hannoverian manufacturer is famous
for. A lot of goodwill comes from the
brand itself, states Zimmermann.
Its a premium product and we
dont compromise on quality. New
products include the SC20 Energy
(pictured), suited to electric trucks
used indoors and the SC20 Mileage,
most appropriate for outdoor use by
diesel or LPG machines.
Within the Conti group there is the
Barum Czech brand of solid, value
tyres, the Simex off-road brand,
which is big in Asia and suits
large harbour tyres and
General Tire in the USA,
which is strong in mining
and underground
applications. Continental
offers customised
solutions for solid tyres.
We focus on the end
users, Zimmermann
informed me. We listen
carefully to them, in
addition to having good
relations with the OEMs.
In the EU Continental is
the market leader, with an
approximate 30% market
share. In the German home market the
share is as high as 60%. We consider
ourselves the performance leader
and undisputed technical leader,
says Zimmermann. Engineered
in Germany has real meaning. In
terms of price Continental look at the
lifetime ownership costs of each tyre,
ie price divided by hours of usage.
The company claim to lead on this too
as the wear and cut resistance and
big tread volume are main product
features.
Strength versus internal heat build-up
is a challenge, with the objective being
to have a cool running tyre. This is
measured by rolling resistance. Our
tyres are 20-30C cooler than rivals
when in operation, so they last for the
entire anticipated lifetime, he adds.
CS Easy
SC20
Energy
All the new tyres come in nonmarking versions too. The Continental
LifeCycle tyre is a re-tread, remoulded eco product, utilising 60%
recycled rubber and 40% new. Still
Conti quality but reducing waste and
energy usage, Zimmermann says. Its
part of a long-term recycling project at
the company, even though the price
of natural rubber has fallen a lot in the
last 3 years. Rubber prices are set in
Dollars and, with the strong Euro
exchange rate, European tyre
companies can buy even more
rubber for their money.
Finally the CS20 Easy product
(pictured) is worth mentioning.
Normally it takes a 40t press
to push a solid tyre into the rim
of a wheel, thus requiring a local
specialised industrial tyre dealer
to perform the task with the necessary
equipment, Zimmermann told me. But
with this product anyone can change
a forklift tyre themselves. Mounting
is easy and fast because the tyre has
some plastic instead of rubber, which
further reduces rolling resistance.
www.continental-specialty-tires.com
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Forklift Components
Complementary Components
Logistics Business reports on
new innovations to forklift tyres,
attachments, batteries and cabs.
Remanufacturing and
Rentals on the Rise
Cascade Corporation is actively
growing their rental and
remanufacturing capabilities around
the globe. Cascade Europe recently
announced the expansion of their
Rental and Remanufacturing facility in
Almere, The Netherlands. The facility
in Almere is a good logistical centre to
serve the northern European countries
in a timely manner. Coupled with the
existing Rental and Remanufacturing
site in Italy, the Netherlands location
allows Cascade to provide rental and
remanufactured attachments throughout
all of Europe in just two weeks.
With a fleet of approximately 800
attachments available for short and long
term rental in Europe, Cascade offers an
economical alternative to purchasing.
There is no initial capital outlay, no
maintenance worries and businesses
can respond to seasonal requirements
without the worry of storage. Cascade
rental attachments are available for
purchase at any time during or after
the rental, should your needs change
and you decide youd rather own the
attachment.
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Forklift Components
Energy-efficient
modular chargers
The new Hawker LifeTech Modular
and Hawker Life IQ Modular highfrequency battery chargers from
EnerSys deliver increased flexibility,
efficiency and reliability with reduced
downtime, costs and carbon footprint
across a wide range of materials
handling, automatic guided vehicle
and motive power applications. They
reduce energy consumption by up
to 25% compared with conventional
chargers and can cut charging times
by up to two hours.
The chargers are configured using a
number of identical power modules so
that performance can be matched to
the specific application requirement.
Each module is a standalone unit
which is managed independently
by the control board to deliver peak
efficiency at all times. The advanced
design of the chargers delivers
increased efficiency and reduces
energy consumption compared with
conventional models. The chargers
convert 94% energy input into usable
battery power, an industry-leading.
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Mobile workstation
In the areas of goods arrival,
production, storage and dispatch
there is an increasing demand for
flexibility. Mobile workstations enable
flexible data recording directly on
site. Thanks to the separate electricity
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DIARY DATES
Picture an exhibition
Logistics Business details the major
logistics and handling shows for the
rest of this year:
Postexpo Stockholm,
September 23-25th
Intermodal, Rotterdam,
November 11-13th
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Manutention / Emballage,
Paris Nord Villepinte
November 17-20th
Manutention is not as strong a show
as it used to be, having faced stiff
competition from SITL in recent years.
However, by staging it alongside and
in the centre of the vast and bustling
Emballage packaging exhibition this
should guarantee plenty of visitors.
Manutention covers all materials
handling technology plus related IT.
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Events Worldwide.
Top meeting-places for intralogistics decision-makers
in the worlds growth markets.
GERMANY
RUSSIA
CHINA
INDIA
TURKEY
AUSTRALIA
ITALY
BRAZIL
HANNOVER
MOSCOW
SHANGHAI
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Hyundai (p60-61)
Jungheinrich (page 5)
Forklift Components - Hawker Enersys (pages 57 & 59) Meijer SE (page 79) Motec (page 31) Trelleborg (page 2)
Loading Bay Equipment & Doors - Assa Abloy (page 37)
Material Handling Systems - Beumer (page 51)
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