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Innovate Logistics has five UK sites located in Scunthorpe, Nottingham, Chesterfield and Birmingham (2). Some of Innovate Logistics’ key customers include; Nestle, Tryton Foods, Unilever Ice Cream and Frozen Foods and Cadbury Trebor Bassett.

Operating on a 24-hour basis has long been a necessity for the logistics industry. Innovate Logistics strives to provide its customers with a fast and efficient service. Therefore, when it sought to purchase a new forklift fleet it had a number of key criteria, which needed to be taken into consideration.

In a food environment electric equipment is clearly the desirable option. Therefore, to enable Innovate to operate continuous shifts both smoothly and efficiently, it also needed a battery changing system which was easy and simple to use.

Innovate Logistics chose Toyota as their materials handling provider as Toyota could clearly meet all its requirements, and had the capability to act as a single source of supply.

Innovate Logistics acquired a fleet of electric counterbalanced, reach and power pallet trucks.
The total number of units in operation is currently fifteen. The fleet was supplied on a 5 year contract hire arrangement. All trucks operate in a chilled environment, and are all complete with spare batteries.

Innovate Logistics now have 24/7 battery changing systems across their whole fleet of electric trucks. The battery change process for the 7FBEF operates as follows. The 7FBEF is positioned next to the battery change stand.

The battery is manually extracted sideways via a bridging trolley. The 7FBEF is then repositioned next to a charged battery using a “fly lead”. The charged battery is manually pushed onto the truck using the bridging trolley. The battery change process takes one person less than two minutes to complete.

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