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- 6 Mar 2025 ( #1220 )
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Flegg and Forklift Exchange have teamed up
Flegg and Forklift Exchange have teamed up

Flegg joins Forklift Exchange

Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

The US-headquartered Forklift Exchange has joined forces with UK-based forklift sales and service group Flegg Projects, to offer European and UK access to high capacity extendable forklifts.

Forklift Exchange, in a Facebook post, explain some of its products are now available to the US and European market including the Gen II hoist, some models of the hoist FR series, and some of the Royal Rig-N-Lift series.

Belgian group implements Skypods

Londerzeel, Belgium

Exotec's Skypod system
Exotec's Skypod system

Belgian food market retailer Colruyt Group has further automated its online Collect&Go service by installing Exotec’s Next Generation Skypod system in its Londerzeel warehouse.

Tom Malfroid, supply chain manager at Collect&Go, explains: “Soon, dozens of Skypods will be operating in the Londerzeel distribution centre; warehouse robots working in hand-in-hand to support employees in picking groceries”.

"When we adopt an innovation like this, we believe it’s important that humans and machines are working collaboratively,” Malfroid adds. “We want to ease the workload of our employees to ensure that they can focus on the tasks that make a difference.”

The Collect&Go service has been operating for 25 years.

“With the introduction of the Next Generation of Skypod, Colruyt expects productivity to increase by 35%,” Malfroid continues.

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