Reading, UK: Tower Cold Chain now has onboard catering containers, capable of maintaining fresh and frozen temperatures without using dry ice. Tower’s passive Advanced Insulated Boxes allow transport and storage of perishable food at refrigerated and/or frozen temperatures. The AIB range meets food safety standards and sustains temperatures at 5°C and below 0°C for up to …
Reading, UK: Tower Cold Chain has received the King’s Award for Enterprise, in the Innovation category. The award recognises Tower’s KTM container – a thermally insulated passive pallet shipping system, with modular construction design. Tower demonstrated outstanding commercial success over two years with the KTM, is a revolutionary contributor to the pharmaceutical logistics market, Tower …
Easton, Lincolnshire: Magnavale is investing £130m on its new cold storage development in Easton, Lincolnshire. The company says the site will be “Europe’s most efficient temperature-controlled storage facility”. Magnavale says it has achieved many of its development milestones since breaking ground in September 2022 and some of the aspects of the project have already been …
Ellington, Cambridgeshire, UK: Buffaload Logistics is celebrating the arrival of its 300th trailer. Managing director Julie Feltwell (pictured) said that the 100th trailer arrived in 2015 and the company’s 300th milestone trailer has just joined the fleet, in May 2023. “We are so proud of our continued growth,” the company said in a Tweet.
London, UK: Warehouse workers at Lidl are to receive their third pay increase in the last 12 months with rates of up to £13.15 an hour. The discount retailer says its entry level pay is now up to 16% higher than traditional and premium priced supermarkets. Both warehouse and store workers outside the M25 will …
Newton Abbot, UK: Food wholesaler R D Johns has a new distribution centre built by ISD Solutions. The bespoke building is an eco-friendly Dutch Barn design, an increasingly popular type of coldstore constructed from a single layer or composite panels at low level providing the thermal and vapour barrier requirements with an internal ceiling and …
Brussels, Belgium: Thermo King has a new BlueBox Lite telematics system for vehicle-powered refrigeration units. It provides temperature and position data, and other critical information from the vehicle-powered fridge, such as like setpoints, alarms or hours of operation. BlueBox Lite has 4G connection allowing customers to access the data through the Thermo King TracKing website, …
London, UK: More than 40% of logistics companies are offering workers flexible hours in a bid to retain and attract new staff, according to temporary work recruitment agency Indeed Flex. Two in five logistics companies say their biggest staffing challenge is ensuring they have enough workers for each shift. Since 2019 there has been a …
London, UK: Logistics UK has called for certainty for business as MPs debate the Retained EU Law bill in the House of Commons today. Logistics UK’s policy director, Kate Jennings, said: “Our members need certainty over the terms under which they trade, and while the government’s recent changes to the Retained EU Law Bill provide …
Grimsby, UK: Constellation Cold Logistics is renaming all its subsidiary companies with the Constellation brand. In the UK, HSH Cold Stores, which acquired ACS&T early this year, will now be known as Constellation Cold Logistics UK. Anthony Howard, managing director, HSH, now Constellation Cold Logistics UK, said: “We are still the same team offering the …
Gaydon, UK: Logistics UK’s Fleet Engineer conference takes place the British Motor Museum in Warwickshire on 22 June 2023. The one-day conference is sponsored by Gray & Adams, and includes insight from manufacturers, industry leaders and government. Sessions will include presentations from traffic commissioner Kevin Rooney, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, and the Health and …
Stoneleigh, UK: Hultsteins is showing its Ecogen Cost Saver fitted to a Buffaload Volvo LNG gas tractor unit at this year’s Road Transport Expo 2023. Ecogen is an electric-hydraulic drive system that transforms diesel fridge units into electric operation when coupled to the tractor using an engine PTO to generate electricity to run the fridge. …
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