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By investing in electric-operated materials handling tugs for moving heavy tooling jigs, car manufacturers can reduce the risk of accidents and injuries to their operators, whilst also ensuring that jigs are delivered to their required destinations ...

Trust Managers in the NHS and Healthcare industry are neglecting easy and effective ways to improve efficiency in portering operations. Despite the NHS's goal of increasing efficiency by 2.2% per year, many simple measures are being overlooked. ...

Hugh Freer Business Development Director Date last reviewed: 01/05/2025 The world record for the heaviest object pulled over 100 feet belongs to a US reverend who pulled a 68-tonne lorry. This is an impressive achievement, but one that manufacturing ...

Moving wind turbine blades during manufacturing can be a difficult task. In industrial applications, they can reach up to 100m in length (in fact the world’s largest is 107m long), and weigh many tonnes.

Andy Owen Partner Date last reviewed: 01/05/2025 Leading manufacturers, including JCB, are benefiting from the improved efficiencies and flexibility electric tugs bring to industrial manufacturing. Our technology offers a solution to achieving fluid ...

As the advantages of single-use systems become widely recognised across the biopharmaceutical industry, there is a move from large-scale facilities with fixed, stainless steel equipment to laboratories that are agile, efficient and able to react to ...

Lucy Cresswell Global Brand Manager Date last reviewed: 01/05/2025 Manufacturers of heavy equipment are under increasing pressure to meet demand, clear production backlogs and reduce TAKT times.

Lean manufacturing is a philosophy that emphasises reducing waste and streamlining processes to improve efficiency. The automotive industry has been using lean techniques for decades, but how can electric tow tugs help manufacturers accelerate their ...

Major names in the pharmaceutical industry are using electric tugs from MasterMover to move chromatography columns, thanks to the tugs’ ideal combination of heavy load handling, compact size, precise manoeuvrability and stainless steel construction.

The benefits of flow line manufacturing systems are well publicized, but for many companies making low volume or very heavy products, an automated production line is nothing but a pipe dream. That was the case, until recently. Now, MasterMover has ...

Pushing, dragging and pulling heavy wheeled loads can take its toll on staff – and employers need to remain vigilant to the risks of manual handling, as MasterMover’s Andy Owen explains.

Thermal cooling systems manufacturer Denso Marston has invested in an electric trolley handling tug as part of a drive to improve health and safety measures on the factory floor at its UK facility in Shipley.