From left: Kevin Chee(Prestar); John Maguire, Narrow Aisle Ltd and Sunny Toh and Desmond Ngiam (Prestar)

Cold Chain Storage Network (CCN), one of Asia's leading temperature controlled storage and distribution specialists, has replaced the existing articulated forklift fleet at its Malaysia facility with eight new Flexi AC CS articulated forklifts designed and built by Narrow Aisle Ltd.

The fleet of Flexi AC Cold Store (CS) trucks will operate at CCN's 200,000 sq ft. (18,600 sq m) multi temperature-controlled warehouse in the Malaysian state of Selangor.

The facility offers chilled, frozen, deep frozen and ambient storage facilities to a host of customers and is one of the largest temperature-controlled storage sites in the region.

The Flexi AC CS fleet will be supplied and maintained by Prestar Marketing, part of Narrow Aisle's global distributor network.

Prestar has been distributing, renting and servicing forklifts and warehousing equipment in Malaysia and Singapore for many years.

The Flexi AC CS's ability to increase conventional pallet storage space by up to 30% compared with reach trucks, combined with its VNA performance in modern power mobile rack systems, has dramatically reduced cold store warehouse logistics costs for many users.

The Flexi AC CS can operate continuously at temperatures as low as minus 28°C and only needs to leave the cold store for a battery change as battery charging can take place in the cold store itself if this is what the design of the store dictates.