Hawker's gone to Iceland
December 1st 2006 Food retailer Iceland, has created more space for parking lift trucks, enlarged its maintenance area and eliminated manual handling by introducing advanced batteries and related equipment from Hawker EnerSys for the latest fleet of warehouse trucks at its Swindon distribution centre. The changes have improved the overall efficiency of the truck fleet and reduced downtime due to slow manual battery changes. The batteries were chosen for their combination of high performance and low overall footprint which has allowed Iceland to achieve its two principal objectives. After a number of business and management changes at Iceland, business is booming and the company has seen massive sales growth during 2006, but this impacts on the warehousing operations which need to be reliable and efficient to ensure that stock reaches the shelves on time. "Hawker listened carefully to what we were trying to achieve and gave us a unique solution using standard components within our budget which created the free space we needed," says Ray Lifton, the site's technical services manager. More articles from Hawker Traction UK: | 
