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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Accessories: efficient warehouse solutions

Melissa Barnett

11 minute read

Accessories: efficient warehouse solutions

Feature Article - 21 Nov 2019 (#950) In part one of the warehouse efficiency feature, Forkliftaction looked at how materials handling equipment can improve your warehouse bottom line. In part two, Melissa Barnett examines the range of modern accessories that can give materials handling equipment an enhanced ability to boost efficiency and productivity.

Melissa Barnett

9 minute read

Towards more efficient warehouses

Feature Article - 14 Nov 2019 (#949) Why is warehouse efficiency so important? Can materials handling equipment help achieve efficiency in your warehouse operation? Melissa Barnett looks at what is on offer in this two-part feature on achieving optimal warehouse efficiency.

Allan Leibowitz

6 minute read

Chinese lift their game

Feature Article - 19 Sep 2019 (#941) China's forklift manufacturers are embracing advanced production techniques and using R&D to improve their offerings, as Allan Leibowitz reports.

Rough and tumble: rough-terrain forklifts and telehandlers

Melissa Barnett

8 minute read

Rough and tumble: rough-terrain forklifts and telehandlers

Feature Article - 6 Jun 2019 (#926) In industry sectors where robust and versatile equipment is required, two materials handling options - telehandlers and rough-terrain forklifts - stand out. Construction, heavy industry and mining continue to take advantage of rough- and all-terrain forklifts, while construction and agriculture have discovered the versatility of telehandlers. Melissa Barnett takes a look at what is happening in the rough-terrain and telehandler market.

Melissa Barnett

9 minute read

Attachments – moving challenges

Feature Article - 7 Mar 2019 (#913) Forklift attachment designers have one thing in common: they love a logistics problem. They believe there is nothing too wide, large, round, flat, heavy or high that can't be moved by an attachment - you just have to design it. Melissa Barnett looks at current attachment design and manufacture, and the unique challenges of moving a vast variety of sizes, shapes and weights.

Melissa Barnett

8 minute read

Changing up – Automated Guided Vehicles

Feature Article - 22 Nov 2018 (#899) Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) have traditionally been small players in the materials handling industry, but not any more. Melissa Barnett looks at the changing face of the AGV market and some of the factors that are enabling the once-niche sector to expand beyond the factory floor.

Allan Leibowitz

11 minute read

Europe set to meet challenges

Feature Article - 27 Sep 2018 (#891) The European materials handling market has performed extremely well, but will it survive geo-political uncertainties and mounting trade tensions? Allan Leibowitz reports on the resilience of a number of manufacturers.

9 minute read

Intelligent management - Fleet and Asset systems

Feature Article - 7 Jun 2018 (#875) Five years ago, telematics was the buzzword in fleet and asset management. In 2018, it is believed that less than 20% of the 1 million forklifts in the USA use any sort of fleet or asset management tools. Melissa Barnett looks at the reality behind the stats, investigates whether it is a worldwide phenomenon and finds out where fleet and asset management is headed.

10 minute read

Energy solutions: only a matter of time

Feature Article - 22 Feb 2018 (#860) Melissa Barnett examines the rise of new energy sources, how they address many of the recurring problems of the old technology and whether they are really here to stay.

8 minute read

Safety through design

Feature Article - 30 Nov 2017 (#849) Each year Forkliftaction News receives alarming reports on industrial accidents involving forklifts. Many of these accidents result in injury, disability and, far too often, death. Melissa Barnett asks manufacturers if good forklift design can improve safety and whether the most common forklift accidents can be prevented at the drawing board stage.

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