Corporatewear specialists, Dimensions Clothing, selected LB Foster Materials Handling to design, manufacture and install the garment hanging, racking and shelving into its new distribution centre in Long Eaton, Nottingham. Dimensions is the UK’s leading supplier of bespoke corporate clothing. The company clothes over 3 million...
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When the UK’s largest medical device company, Smith & Nephew, needed to urgently install a powered pallet conveyor system at its Wound Management HQ in Hull it called in Leicester based materials handling specialist, LB Foster. Quite apart from the tight timescales on the project,...
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The mega garment handling and storage installation at Clipper’s deconsolidation centre near Teesport has the capacity to store up to 4 million units. The company’s first customer for the centre is Asda, with a 10 year contract for its George clothing brand. LB Foster’s system...
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Honda’s new continuously moving, inverted monorail conveyor for a dashboard sub assembly line at its UK manufacturing plant in Swindon is a big success. Designed to transport new Honda Civic dashboards around a 20 station assembly line in Car Plant 2, the LB Foster conveyor...
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The business case for BOC’s investment in its new state-of-the-art test centre in Wolverhampton was improved productivity whilst maintaining the highest standard of finished product. This needed to be achieved in an area with a very tight footprint and that was the challenge for LB...
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Coopering is, historically, a very physical industry. One of the main drivers behind the design of the new cooperage was to reduce the manual handling of casks which would simultaneously improve safety. To achieve this, automation was required throughout the processes; Diageo needed to appoint...
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