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The MasterCheck app creator chose to release the updated 2.0 version of the app on the occasion of the 2020 annual National Forklift Safety Day in the US. The updated release includes additional features aimed at improving workplace safety and making every day a safer day in the forklift environment.

This year’s National Forklift Safety Day returned on 9 June to promote the importance of safe segregation of pedestrians in the workplace – and despite the restrictions imposed by lockdown, the campaign is already gathering momentum across the materials handling industry.

By Ryan Wachsmuth, Dynamic Storage Sales Manager at Steel King Industries.

Retailers and the warehouses and distributors that support them know that empty shelves lead to lost sales. But, in any period of peak demand – whether in a crisis like a pandemic, hurricane or other disaster; or a holiday season, etc. – retailers’ shelves can become notoriously empty when logistical bottlenecks occur in the supply chain.

Hyundai Construction Equipment claims to be the first company in Korea to develop driverless autonomous forklift trucks – HCE is now planning to progress its smart logistics solutions using KT's (Korea Telecom) 5G communication network and artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Rushlift GSE, the specialist airport ground support equipment subsidiary of Doosan Industrial Vehicles UK, has won a £3.4 million contract to supply and maintain a fleet of 225 vehicles for ASC Handling’s new Gatwick Airport operations. 

NexSys ATEX batteries, available from EnerSys, are claimed to allow materials handling vehicles to work safely in hazardous areas where there is an explosion risk.

As the government prepares to lift some of the lockdown measures within the UK, it’s clear that life and work will not go back to the way they once were. Even as lockdown eases, people will remain risk-averse and many companies will continue to feel the economic pressures brought on by Covid-19 for some time to come.

Linde Material Handling’s Remanufacturing Centre in Velké Bílovice near Brno (Czech Republic), which was only opened in autumn 2017, is being expanded.

Hyster electric lift trucks are helping manufacturers of finished metal goods to reduce damage, and the associated costs, at every stage of their operation, while keeping productivity high.

Houston, Texas-headquartered forklift manufacturer Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (‘MCFA’) has implemented international supply chain solutions provider TouchPath’s ‘TouchMES’ manufacturing execution system, integrating it with the company’s ERP system to increase production capacity and support expansion.