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Efficient order picking

The advantages of electric order pickers

electric order pickerThe world of warehousing and logistics has a crucial element of efficiency and productivity. The use of electric order picking equipment has revolutionised the order picking process and has offered a much more convenient and user-friendly solution for UK businesses.

11 March 2024/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (112)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 5.0

Taking the strain out of carrying goods upstairs

The benefits of electric-powered stairclimber sack trucks

stairclimberUnlocking efficiency combined with safety in today's fast paced business world is critical for the transportation of heavy loads when negotiating stairways and other challenging terrains.

23 November 2023/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (405)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.5

Stillages and pallets

Choosing the right equipment

pallet stillageWhen it comes to efficiently storing and transporting goods, stillages and pallets are essential tools for many businesses.

21 August 2023/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (542)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.0
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Streamlining your warehouse with materials handling equipment

How materials handling equipment can improve operations

rackingIn today's fast-paced business world, efficiency and productivity are key to staying ahead of the competition. When it comes to warehouse operations, streamlining processes is essential for meeting customer demands and maximising profits. One effective way to achieve this is by investing in top-of-the-line material handling equipment. From fork stackers and pallet trucks to conveyors and automated systems, these tools can revolutionise your warehouse operations and take them to new heights.

27 June 2023/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (369)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.7

Making manual handling safer

Something has to be done, the statistics don’t lie!

stair climberOne-in-three accidents at work are caused by manual handling. In 2022 out of the 1.8 million working people suffering from a work-related illness, 477,000 of them experienced problems from a job-related musculoskeletal disorder according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Furthermore, 300,000 people in the UK were troubled with back pain caused by manual handling incidents!

06 April 2023/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (500)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.0
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A buyer’s guide to sack trucks

Guidance to help make an informed choice

sack truckSack trucks have been around since the industrial revolution and were used to move large sacks of spices around the docks. As this was usually the job of young boys, the simple L-shaped sack truck with two wheels was invented to allow the children single handedly move goods much heavier than they could carry. That design has survived and is still in use today. There have also been further design developments resulting in numerous material handling trucks more suited to specific tasks.

07 September 2022/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (800)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.0
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Weighing up your options

The evolvement of the simple weigh scale

simple scaleThe simple scale and the ability to weigh things with it, is something most of us largely take for granted. However, you may not be fully aware just how sophisticated modern scales have become.

13 June 2022/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (524)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.5
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Electric platform trucks improve productivity

A safe way to move heavy goods around

packaging tapeWhen there is a pile of goods that are needed to be moved from one area to another, there are various ways in which that can be achieved. You can either handball each item or place the goods onto a truck or trolley of some description and push or pull them to their new location.

19 November 2020/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (1278)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.0
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There’s more to packaging goods than just a roll of box tape!

How to choose the right equipment to suit your packaging application

packaging tapeApplying strapping as a packaging measure to pallets, boxes, cartons and loose products seems like an easy thing to do but getting it right in terms of the actual requirement and the costs involved can be anything but!

22 September 2020/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (1123)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.5
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Adapting forklift trucks and stackers ...

... can offer great benefits

drum attachmentBusinesses are often faced with the need to provide new or additional materials handling or access procedures in order to deal with trading expansion, health and safety implementation or new legal requirements. It is very easy to overlook the existing equipment that you already have within your organisation, that could easily be adapted to suit the task in hand.

01 July 2019/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (1742)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.3
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It’s just a pallet truck …

… aren’t they all the same?

pallet truckWhen you normally think of pallet trucks you think of a helpful tool that moves wooden or plastic pallets around a warehouse or factory floor. Well, of course they do predominately do that, but there are also a whole variety of other styles that are designed for many different tasks or uses in less traditional environments.

02 May 2019/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (1502)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.7
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A buyers' guide to cash & carry trucks

“Three wheels on my wagon and I'm not rolling along!”

cash & carry trolleysThe UK's ‘Cash & Carry’ grocery wholesaling trade was first reported as starting in June 1957 with the opening of Vye and Son in Ramsgate, a subsidiary of the Home & Colonial Group. But Lawrence Batley is widely accredited as the originator of the concept in the UK and in April 1958, L. Batley & Co. of Huddersfield opened a large 30,000 sq. ft. modern cash & carry warehouse which was by far the biggest of its kind to date.

04 April 2019/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (1201)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.5
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Reel lifters

The benefits of owning one and what you need to consider before purchase

light duty stackerWhilst every company is unique in its own way, the work problems it can encounter on a daily basis are often shared throughout industry. Action Handling has a 48 year trading history, during which it has accrued a fountain of knowledge, so when it comes to finding solutions for work problems, we can often pull on previous projects completed for other customers with similar hurdles to jump.

19 October 2018/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (2400)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.5
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Better to be safe than sorry when handling gas cylinders

Helpful advice for moving and storing dangerous cylinders

gas cylinder handlingBefore buying cylinder handling and storage equipment it is important to understand and assess how different types of cylinders need to be handled and also to establish the actual requirements of individual gases by identifying them in the first place.

01 October 2018/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (2239)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.4
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Uplifting

Forklift truck attachments

Forklift truck attachmentsForklift trucks are an indispensible piece of equipment for many in the materials handling industry. Traditionally used for lifting and stacking, they can also be customised by adding attachments, adding to their versatility within your business.

11 September 2017/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (1310)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 3.0
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Drum Beat

Storage drum uses

drum lifting equipmentSteel drum barrels have been in use for many years to store and transport various items. They've also been used in less orthodox circumstances, such as musical instruments native to Trinidad and Tobago, urban bonfire pits and even by several daredevils who decided to tackle Niagara Falls inside steel drums of varying shapes and sizes. One bright spark even enclosed his drum in inner tubes (amazingly, he survived).

11 September 2017/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (1273)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 3.0
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Utilise gravity and increase productivity

How to choose a gravity roller conveyor


bendy conveyorGravity roller conveyor is often referred to as gravity conveyor, roller conveyor or just plain old conveyor. Conveyor in its most basic form is made up of an outer framework and a series of rollers fitted within that frame over which goods can be rolled from point A to B.

20 April 2017/Author: Dee Jones/Number of views (1949)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.7

Turntable trucks

Helping you to move goods efficiently

Turntable TruckThere are many types of hand truck or trolley available to the industrial sector today and many of them have names that we have all heard of before…..flatbed truck, rough terrain truck, platform truck, hand trailer, warehouse truck etc. Sometimes they seem to be referred to as trucks and sometimes as trolleys. What`s the difference? To be honest I`m not quite sure anybody really knows! Certainly Wikipedia seems to struggle with that.

28 July 2016/Author: Anonym/Number of views (1918)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.6
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How to choose the correct stacker truck

Questions to ask yourself when choosing a stacker truck

A stackerThey lift and move pallets of goods around from point to point and are generally used in warehouses, factories and goods inwards departments. Some models are often used to move un-palletised goods like machine parts, boxes, drums and cartons but then they would normally need to be fitted with a fork platform or lifting attachment to suit the load.

07 July 2016/Author: Anonym/Number of views (2690)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.1
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Pallet truck repairs

Maintain it, repair it or send it to the skip?

Pallet truck being servicedMy TV repair man came around the other week to fix a problem with my 10 year old flat screen LED. I was somewhat surprised when to my joy the problem was fixed and it only cost me £78. I was expecting the usual ‘Oh sorry mate, that model must be at least 2 years old and you might as well throw it away and buy another one’.

14 June 2016/Author: Anonym/Number of views (5057)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.1
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Three-in-one sack truck

One product that does three jobs!

Three Way Sack TruckWith such an array of hand trucks and trolleys flooding the industrial market place it can sometimes be totally baffling to know which sack truck or trolley to select for your workplace or indeed even home use. The choice seems endless from folding foot, fixed toe plate, mesh infill back, curved back the list of different variations of the product are vast and that’s before we even get into the realms of handles and wheeling, So to find a sack truck that can perform a host of applications there may well be a very savvy choice.

07 June 2016/Author: Anonym/Number of views (3352)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.6
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Growing Begonias

Drown them all Sir!

Garden Centre BarrowIt's that time of the year when keen or even not so keen gardeners turn their attentions to the planting of garden plants. A very good friend of mine and knowledgeable gardener tells me that Begonias need a damn good regular drowning and that sweet peas need lots of loving care and attention. Bulbs like Gladioli can be planted at this time of year but one should ensure that the deciduous trees in the locality have to be well 'into leaf' to offer their protection to the soil. Now quite how he knows all these things are a complete mystery to me seeing as he seems to spend all his time in the bookies or the pub!! But what I do know, is that he knows his garden plants ... and I don't!

 

04 March 2016/Author: Anonym/Number of views (2017)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.5
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Cash & Carry

More ... see it, pick it and wheel it

Cash and carry truckFrom its humble beginnings in the mid nineteen twenties the Wholesale Warehouse more latterly known as the Cash & Carry, although the first street appearance of the term is widely accredited to Lawrence Batley who didn't open Batley's Cash and Carry in Huddersfield until 1958.

22 February 2016/Author: Anonym/Number of views (1958)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 5.0
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Trucking around

A materials handling essential

trucking aroundWhen we refer to trucks in the materials handling industry, we are referring to a wheeled platform used to convey loads in a warehouse or factory setting. Sometimes these trucks can be motorised, and they come in many shapes and sizes, depending on their end use. Action Handling has supplied trucks to industries across the UK for over forty years, and we have a large range of different types available.

13 November 2015/Author: Anonym/Number of views (1943)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 5.0
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A Good Housekeeper

NuKeeper Product Range

a good housekeeperOur NuKeeper product range offers an extensive choice of cleaning equipment, opening up a multitude of possibilities within the professional cleaning sector. Much of the product range is unique, with key patented features designed to blend today’s technology with our own brand of quality-based common-sense engineering.

 
02 November 2015/Author: Anonym/Number of views (1640)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 5.0
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Sack truck buyer's guide

Which sack truck?

sack truck buyers guideFor the past forty years, Action Handling have supplied trucks and trolleys in a huge range of designs, sizes and capabilities to clients across the UK, so you could say we’re pretty familiar with them. We understand that, for the average user, your requirements may just be for “a standard sack truck”. However, when we further analyse the everyday use of the machine, it allows us to supply the most suitable equipment for your specific needs. If you are wondering which sack truck, what sack truck or are just looking for a description of sack trucks this buyer's guide will help.

 
28 October 2015/Author: Anonym/Number of views (2242)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.7
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Conveyor systems

Keeping on track

Keeping on TrackMany of us can remember the famous scene from ‘I Love Lucy’, where Lucy and Ethel was working at the Acme Candy factory, wrapping chocolates on a conveyer belt. The belt speeds up and the candies arrive more and more quickly, leading to hilarity (wonderfully conveyed by the expressive Lucille Ball). It’s a scene that has been re-used and parodied and paid homaged to many times since, and is considered one of the most famous episodes of I Love Lucy ever.

03 October 2015/Author: Anonym/Number of views (2345)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.0
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Weighing things up

Weighing up your options for material handling

Weighing things upIn the collection at the British Museum, among many other fine things, is a small cast lion weight, found in what is now modern day Turkey. Made from a tin/bronze alloy and dating to the fifth century BC, it’s evidence of the fact that weights have been used to measure commodities for trade since ancient times, just as they are today.

27 July 2015/Author: Anonym/Number of views (2835)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 5.0
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Uplifting

Customising your forklift truck

Forklift truck imageForklift trucks are an indispensible piece of equipment for many in the materials handling industry. Traditionally used for lifting and stacking, they can also be customised by adding attachments, adding to their versatility within your business.

22 April 2015/Author: Anonym/Number of views (3297)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: No rating
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How to choose, use and look after a pallet truck

Pallet Trucks are great for moving heavy loads

One of the most popular pieces of equipment used in the UK is the simple pallet truck. They are often referred to as pump trucks, lift trucks, stillage trucks and probably a multitude of other names but in essence they all do the same job in lifting pallets for ease of movement and transportation.

 

24 November 2014/Author: Anonym/Number of views (4797)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: 4.3
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