Turnkey solution ensures Trendsetting Awards maximises space at its new warehouse

With over 40 years’ experience, Trendsetting Awards. one of the UK’s largest, independently owned suppliers of exceptional quality awards and trophies and, to keep pace with demand for its extensive range, Trendsetting Awards recently announced plans to re-locate to a new warehouse facility in Newcastle upon Tyne.

SOLUTION

After consulting with the company’s operations management team to get a full understanding of their needs, the driving factor was to maximise the storage space at its new warehouse facility.

Alcor Handling Solutions recommended a turnkey solution which included the design and delivery of a new (VNA) very narrow aisle racking system which achieved a staggering 2800 pallets of storage space by simply narrowing the facility’s aisle widths.

And by installing a mezzanine floor, this cut out dead space which was utilised for storing other stock, and creating a working area to assemble the products, this recommendation was clearly the best option for Trendsetting Awards operations management team.

In addition, Alcor Handling Solutions has supplied the fleet of warehouse equipment that operates within the new warehouse and will provide ongoing truck service and maintenance support to ensure that the machines always deliver optimum performance.

Following a competitive tender process, Alcor Handling Solutions was awarded the contract to oversee the design and build of the new warehouse racking and storage system from start to finish.

Kevin Wood, Technical Sales Manager at Alcor Handling Solutions commented.

“Unlike some companies whose sole focus is on either materials handling equipment, or racking and shelving systems, our goal is to offer a complete solution, and the one stop approach is paramount in delivering the optimum solution for the client.

RESULT

The new VNA warehouse layout, the VNA fleet of Narrow Aisle Flexi VNA15N articulated trucks which are complemented with Mitsubishi Electric Forklift Trucks and Order Picking equipment are proving to be huge success on site.

We are already seeing the benefits of our investment in our new warehouse.

Commented Michael Dobson, General Manager at Trendsetting Awards.

“The fact that Alcor Handling could provide a complete in-house solution that included supplying a full range of materials handling equipment, designing and constructing our racking system and project managing the installation through the build cycle was very attractive.

The term ‘one-stop-shop’ is something of a cliché, but Alcor Handling Solutions really did take care of everything.

Working with a single-source supplier has several advantages.

More importantly, dealing with a turnkey partner for the handling equipment and the racking instead of two independent companies, meant there was no possibility of an issue arising because of a disagreement or misunderstanding between the two separate companies

We would like to thank Alcor Handling Solutions for their dedication and professionalism to get the job done.