In-depth feature articles about materials handling trends and solutions

Feature Articles

Forkliftaction News takes an in-depth look at current trends, challenges and opportunities impacting the materials handling market. Packed with insights from industry experts, you'll learn about the latest emerging technologies and new solutions on the market.

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Matthew McDonald

9 minute read

Meeting the forklift safety challenge

Feature Article - 9 Jun 2022 (#1080) Matthew McDonald examines the latest products designed to help reduce the incidence of forklift-related deaths and injuries.

Big challenges and big opportunities for manufacturers in Europe

Eve White

9 minute read

Big challenges and big opportunities for manufacturers in Europe

Feature Article - 12 May 2022 (#1076) Eve White explores the challenges facing European manufacturers of materials handling equipment during this unusual time in history – and how different companies are dealing with the issues they face.

Sandra Hogan

9 minute read

The future of power for forklifts

Feature Article - 31 Mar 2022 (#1070) Sandra Hogan examines the way the energy revolution is affecting the global materials handling market.

Reducing environmental impacts in the materials handling industry

Eve White

10 minute read

Reducing environmental impacts in the materials handling industry

Feature Article - 3 Mar 2022 (#1066) Eve White examines current trends in motive power and the ways that manufacturers are both adapting existing technology and developing new technology that meets the new environmental standards.

Allan Leibowitz

17 minute read

A year of ups and downs

Feature Article - 13 Jan 2022 (#1059) 2021 has been a mixed bag for materials handling, with demand for equipment soaring, but supply chains under extreme strain. Allan Leibowitz summarises the year’s highs and lows.

Forklift Innovations: a better way to do it

Melissa Barnett

8 minute read

Forklift Innovations: a better way to do it

Feature Article - 4 Nov 2021 (#1050) If nothing else, the last couple of years have shown how important it is to ensure your business is lean and agile enough to change direction with little warning. Melissa Barnett takes a look at some recent innovations in the materials handling industry.

Pedestrian forklifts – here, there and everywhere

Melissa Barnett

8 minute read

Pedestrian forklifts – here, there and everywhere

Feature Article - 2 Sep 2021 (#1041) What piece of equipment do you find in every warehouse, retail stockroom and distribution centre, from grocery stores to IKEA, across the world? If you said a pedestrian forklift, you would be right. Melissa Barnett looks at the industry's most common forklift, its expanding areas of capability and recent improvements.

Automation and Robotics – designed for all sizes

Melissa Barnett

8 minute read

Automation and Robotics – designed for all sizes

Feature Article - 13 May 2021 (#1025) Over the past decades, the big manufacturing, warehouse and logistics operations have been pro-active in taking up automation and robotics, but small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) have been slower. Why is this the case and have things changed recently? What would encourage SMEs to take up the technology? Melissa Barnett looks at some of the challenges and the solutions surrounding automation.

Melissa Barnett

10 minute read

Energy sources update

Feature Article - 11 Mar 2021 (#1016) A lot has happened in the year since the last Forkliftaction News report on new energy sources. Melissa Barnett looks at how recent events have influenced the logistics sector, what that means when choosing an energy solution, and what impact the pandemic has had on the development of current solutions.