FKI Logistex® – a leading global supplier of automated material handling systems – announce that they have been awarded a second contract by Wincanton plc to upgrade the Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) at a distribution centre operated by Wincanton on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

FKI Logistex® – a leading global supplier of automated handling systems – has successfully completed the design and installation of Warehouse Management System (WMS) control and Graphical User Internface (GUI) software at M-Real’s National Distribution Centre in Sittingbourne, Kent. The upgrade of functionality from the existing standalone Stock Distribution System (SDS) was completed, on budget and on time, in just 12 weeks.

FKI Logistex® - a world leader in automated handling systems - has been awarded a contract to extend their robotic palletiser system installed in R Twining & Co. Ltd’s North Shields factory.

FKI Logistex - a global leader in automated material handling systems – has been awarded the Total Project Integrator (TPI) contract for a new automated high-bay clad-rack warehouse for a bottling system at the Ploiesti manufacturing facility in Romania part of the Athens-based Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (HBC) – one of the world’s largest bottlers of Coca-Cola.

FKI Logistex® - a global leader in automated material handling systems – has completed the handover of a new high-speed palletising system to Unilever Pty. Part of Unilever’s plans to introduce detergent powder in eco-friendly bags as a replacement for traditional cardboard boxes, the system at the Unilever plant in Boksburg, South Africa was completed on time and on budget.

FKI Logistex® - a global leader in integrated material handling systems - announces its new modular Logistex Case Conveyor Solutions which combines industry-first features designed to reduce its environmental impact and maintenance costs to ultra-low levels.

FKI Logistex®), a global leader in integrated material handling solutions, announces enhancements to its EASYpick® order fulfilment software.  EASYpick now offers customers a variety of new features for cost-effective management of distribution and manufacturing fulfilment operations.  The software integrates multiple light- and voice-directed picking and putting technologies and supports FKI Logistex EASYpick Pick-to-Light, GoKart, Voice, RF and EASYput® Put-to-Light.

FKI Logistex® - a global leader in automated materials handling solutions - has been awarded the contract to extend the major site at Middlewich, Cheshire, from which Wincanton operates GlaxoSmithKline’s northern distribution base.

FKI Logistex – a leading global supplier of automated handling systems – have started the installation of a high-density automated handling system designed to help the British Library to reduce their storage footprint and increase productivity.

Acting as main contractor and total project integrator for design, construction, installation and commissioning of all handling and storage systems, FKI Logistex® has helped Wolseley UK - the country’s leading plumbing and building merchant - set exciting new global standards in logistics operations with its automated, state-of-the-art National Distribution Centre (NDC).

Improved throughput, operating efficiencies and stock management, together with significant cost savings, are just some of the major benefits provided by a newly-built, fully-automated warehouse, opened recently by Coca-Cola Enterprises Limited (CCE) and designed, manufactured and installed by FKI Logistex® - a global leader in integrated materials handling solutions.

FKI Logistex® to supply and fully integrate turnkey materials handling solutions at two UK manufacturing sites operated by the world’s number two supplier of breakfast cereals.  Production units in Staverton, Wiltshire and Bromborough, Wirral, Merseyside are the plants being expanded, , to provide the additional capacity needed by the Cereal Partners Worldwide joint venture of General Mills Inc and Nestle SA.

FKI Logistex® - a global leader in integrated material handling solutions - has won a major contract to supply Condor™ very-narrow-aisle (VNA), automated storage-and-retrieval systems (AS/RS) for six new Preferred Freezer Services® facilities planned for mid 2007. This prestigious contract, which includes a fixed-price, parts-and-maintenance back-up agreement, involves installation of 42 FKI Logistex Condor cranes, to be manufactured at FKI Logistex plant based in Worcester.