Local company helps bring Christmas joy to underprivileged children

Budding engineers begin rewarding careers at Briggs Equipment

Budding engineers begin rewarding careers at Briggs Equipment

Battery recycler to save £1/2 million in toughest application

Partnership sees Briggs promoted to the premier league

Cannock firm secures £10million Homebase contract

Briggs Equipment secures £10million Homebase contract

Cooper SH Handles Growth for Leading Rail Freight Terminal

Free high visibility vest to boost forklift hire safety

Briggs Invests £5.5 million in Yale Short-Term Rental Fleet

Anochrome Group Receives Revolutionary Contract from Briggs

The Anochrome Group has re-appointed Briggs Equipment, the UK’s leading independent distributor of materials handling products, as its materials handling supplier in a new contract worth nearly quarter of a million pounds. Briggs’ flexible approach, coupled with bespoke truck modifications, secured the 11-truck fleet deal. The Anochrome Group, which operates three sites across the West Midlands, had recently undergone major changes in its production operations meaning it needed to handle a much wider variety of container types. The coatings specialist, which deals in a highly competitive

PREMUIM UPTIME LEVEL WINS COOPER SH AN ENGINEERING PRESENCE IN SCOTLAND

Cooper SH’ s engineering service has entered Scotland for the first time after being made service and maintenance provider for Malcolm Rail’s Edinburgh and Glasgow rail terminals. The contract was awarded after Cooper SH helped Malcolm Rail reach 98 per cent uptime at its Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal. The Scotland terminals have a 45 tonne top lift and combi lift reach stacker where they handle nearly 260 containers that come into the sites weekly. Malcolm Rail hopes that with the help of Cooper SH, it will gain the same uptime levels and carbon reductions as achieved at the

RENEWED SPONSORSHIP FOR CANNOCK INDOOR BOWLING LEAGUE

Briggs Equipment UK, a leading supplier of forklift trucks and warehouse equipment, has renewed its sponsorship of the Cannock Indoor Pairs Crown Green Bowling League. The deal will provide support for local bowlers who are based at the Cannock Chase Leisure Centre. The sponsorship sees the total prize money for the winter season raised to £900. Formed in 1994, the league involves three divisions of eight pairs competing every Sunday from November through to February each year. Secretary, Mel Evans commented: “We are delighted that Briggs Equipment UK has renewed its sponsorship for this

FUTURE SECURED FOR ONE OF BRITAIN’S GREAT FOODS

The future of sausage roll production in Market Drayton has been secured thanks to the efforts of a leading food manufacturer to cut the fat from its factory operations. Multi award winning firm, Pork Farms has saved nearly £18,000 after reviewing its manual handling requirements with the help of a leading distributor of fork lift trucks, Cannock-based Briggs Equipment. Dave Bradley, supply chain manager at Pork Farms commented: “We’ve implemented a comprehensive programme of change to embrace the ‘lean’ manufacturing system. Working in the food industry, we are constantly driven by sell-by

COOPER SH WINS DESIGN 4 SAFETY TECHNOLOGY AWARD AT IMHX 2010

Cooper SH, the UK’s leading provider of Konecranes port and terminal equipment, has won the Technology award at this year’s IMHX Design 4 Safety Awards with its NearGuard Safety Alert System. The awards highlight the importance of safety product design features and recognise the best innovations in helping to reduce forklift truck accidents. Investment in technology has increased over the last few years and has helped to reduce the number of deaths caused by moving vehicles. Statistics from the Health & Safety Executive show a 34 per cent reduction in 2010 compared to the same period in

Solideal Announce Growth Plans at IMHX

With last years’ acquisition of a national industry retail company, Solideal Industrial Tyres Limited will be taking the opportunity to tell the materials handling industry about its exciting plans at this years’ IMHX show. The company purchased Industrial Tyre Services Limited in July 2009 and is now the only manufacturing, wholesale and retail operation in the UK. As Solideal Industrial Tyre’s Managing Director Len Sambrook, explained: “This is an exciting time for Solideal. With the acquisition of Industrial Tyre Services we are now a viable alternative for customers in the retail sector.

BRIGGS SEES RISE IN TRAINING REQUESTS

Briggs Equipment has recently seen an upsurge in applications to attend its customised lifting equipment driver training courses. The West Midlands based materials handling equipment and service provider has over 12 years experience in delivering driver training programmes for UK industry. The courses last from one to five days and can be completed on site or at one of Briggs’ training centres. The structure includes practical and theory tests, a thorough explanation of current legislation with a focus on workforce health and safety legislation and the operator’s safety code. As Ken Stoll,

BRIGGS LAUNCHES ‘SPEEDSHIELD’ FOR REVOLUTIONARY FLEET CONTROL

The UK’s Cat® Lift Truck distributor and leading service provider, Briggs Equipment, has launched a new asset management tool. ‘Speedshield’ is an asset management tool that promotes optimum safety and efficiency, giving customers complete control over their fleet. Speedshield encourages best-practice driver behaviour by enforcing a tailored HSE checklist on start-up. This standard feature gives users a perfect, paperless, online HSE compliance record with exceptions locking out a unit and informing appropriate supervisors. Speedshield is the second instalment of innovative management tools

BRIGGS LAUNCHES ‘SPEEDSHIELD’ FOR REVOLUTIONARY FLEET CONTROL

The UK’s Cat® Lift Truck distributor and leading service provider, Briggs Equipment, has launched a new asset management tool. ‘Speedshield’ is an asset management tool that promotes optimum safety and efficiency, giving customers complete control over their fleet. Speedshield encourages best-practice driver behaviour by enforcing a tailored HSE checklist on start-up. This standard feature gives users a perfect, paperless, online HSE compliance record with exceptions locking out a unit and informing appropriate supervisors. Speedshield is the second instalment of innovative management tools

NEW PRODUCT RANGE TAKES PRODUCTIVITY TO MAXIMUM LEVELS

The UK’s national Cat® Lift Truck distributor and service provider, Briggs Equipment has extended its product range to include the new DP/GP 40-55N Cat Lift Truck range. The robust DP/GP40-55N range has been designed to offer maximum durability, greater ergonomics and performance for the hardest applications. It also introduces a new 5.5 tonne capacity truck to accurately match customer application requirements. “Product reliability and durability come as standard with Cat Lift Trucks which is even more critical for trucks in this key capacity range”, says Tony Rooney, sales and marketing

NEW CAT® / JC PLANT HYBRID ENDS UNSAFE HANDLING PRACTICES

Managers operating in power stations and refineries can now put an end to the manual handling of difficult materials thanks to the flexibility of Cat® Lift Trucks. Lincolnshire-based JC Plant Limited has manufactured a new range of machines using Cat Lift Trucks supplied by the UK’s national Cat® Lift Truck distributor and service provider, Briggs Equipment. JC Plant, which specialises in designing and manufacturing bespoke materials handling solutions, has developed the ‘Skyhook® 3.3’. It is specifically designed to work in hazardous environments and confined spaces whilst providing

BRIGGS EQUIPMENT APPOINTS NEW CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Briggs Equipment, sole UK national Cat ® Lift Truck distributor and leading independent materials handling service provider has appointed Chris Meinecke as Chief Operating Officer, effective from January 1st 2010. Chris joins the UK team from the USA where he has worked with Briggs Equipment for over 18 years. Briggs Equipment’s parent company, Sammons Enterprises Inc., is one of the world’s largest privately owned companies who are committed to long term investment in the UK. Now based within the UK at Briggs’ national headquarters in Cannock, Staffordshire, Chris will play a key role. “

MANUFACTURING FIRM HELPS TACKLE OBESITY CRISIS IN HOSPITAL MORTUARY

A manufacturing company has come to the rescue staff at a Manchester mortuary who are struggling to cope with the increasing weight of deceased patients. Obesity is an issue rarely out of the headlines but as well as contributing to many early deaths it is creating real problems for dedicated workers at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust who face the sensitive task of looking after the deceased before their bodies are released for burial. Wilmat Limited – a Birmingham-based company specialising in the design and manufacture of materials handling equipment - has been working with The Christie