ITW Retail Group, Australia’s leading supplier of hardware and fasteners to the retail trade, is building a new high-tech 21,500 sqm national distribution centre (DC) at South Dandenong in Melbourne. With around 7,000 stock keeping units (SKU), including brands such as Zenith, Ramset, Buildex and Pryda, ITW Retail Group products are a popular choice for [...]

CHEP Australia has launched a new-look beverage tray, opening up a reusable retail-ready packaging to the beverage supply chain. The new retail beverage tray has been designed to hold all variants of soft drink bottles, 1.25L, 1.5L, 2.0L and 2.25L. The design innovation from Finland’s K. Hartwall, took seven years to perfect and has been [...]

A new major global forklift company has been borne from the merger of two of the world’s largest forklift manufacturers. UniCarriers Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has completed the transfer of all issued shares of TCM Corporation from Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd and all issued shares of Nissan Forklift Co., Ltd from Nissan Motor [...]

Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) has maintained its position as the global number one supplier of material handling equipment for a record 12th year, according to German trade media. Respected German material handling magazines Logistik Journal and dnf Intralogistik have named TICO the global number one for the 12 months to 31 March, 2012. TICO is [...]

The Integrated Packaging Group has acquired the business and assets of the Amcor Flexibles Packaging Plants in Cheltenham, Chester Hill and Kirrawee.

Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) has retained overall national forklift market leadership and achieved a 26th consecutive year of dominance in internal-combustion counter-balance forklifts. Official Australian Industrial Truck Association (AITA) industry sales results for the 2012 calendar year show TMHA captured approximately 32 per cent of the total Australian forklift market. TMHA sold in excess [...]