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Dimensions

Who can resist a uniform?

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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6m
Garment storage capacity
14m
Garments dispatched a year
275,000
sq/ft footprint plus 125,000 sq ft of mezzanine
Smith and Nephew

Just a spoonful of sugar…

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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100+
product position sensors
40
independent motors on system
24hr
operation
Clipper

By George they’ve done it!

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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4 million
garments storage capacity
43,000m
of overhead monorail
3 million
garments processed per week
Honda

Paradise by the dashboard light

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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20
station assembly line
700mm
up to 1700mm/min running speed
85secs
time taken to produce a new Honda car
BOC

It’s a gas, gas, gas…

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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6
cylinders loaded/unloaded at a time
200ºC
operating environment
2
drop sections with 2m stroke
Diageo

We’ll drink to that!

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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£10m
cooperage in Cambus
250,000
casks produced
90%
per year reduction in manual handling
Dimensions Dimensions
Smith and Nephew Smith and Nephew
Clipper Clipper
Honda Honda
BOC BOC
Diageo Diageo