Happy Campers: Windsor helps Magnum trade in ladders for lift
A supplier of caravan and motorhome parts based in Grimsby has reached new heights with a helping hand from the Immingham branch of Windsor Materials Handling.
Windsor Access Trucks Brought Aboard at Coldstar
Opening in July 2012, Coldstar Refrigeration has made a splash in its first five years of business. The firm offers a range of services covering the installation of refrigeration, air conditioning and electrical systems from its workshop in Enterprise Village, Grimsby.
Heavy Metal: UK’s Largest Scaffolder Builds With Windsor
With a company timeline stretching back to 1978, Generation UK has seen substantial growth and now operates as the largest scaffolding supplier in the UK.
Windsor helps InBond make short work of high racking
As a market leader in premium logistics services, InBond has a reputation for providing high quality warehousing and document management services to some of the biggest names in the UK.
Immingham Training Facility Opens to Reduce Forklift Accidents
With the number of distribution centres rising thanks to the growing popularity of internet shopping, the use of forklifts is becoming more common, meaning added risk for forklift-related accidents. As demand rises, businesses take on more temporary workers, making warehouses busier and increasing the risk of accidents further.
Windsor Celebrates 40 Years!
We've not known them that long, but it sometimes feels like it!
A sweet success for Jakemans
Established in Boston, England in 1907, Jakemans specialises in producing quality menthol based natural throat and chest remedies. Although Jakemans remains in Lincolnshire to this day, the privately run confectionary business has also made their move to America, where a wide range of their products are sold.
The strength that delivers for Thor Shipping
A customer of Windsor Materials Handling for over 20 years, TST’s Hull terminal is home to all manner of Windsor-supplied equipment, including counterbalance forklifts, sideloaders, reach stackers, tugs, scrubber driers and trailers.
An ethical approach at Freshtime
Windsor are helping one Lincolnshire business meet their ethical expectations
Windsor Metsä Difference
Fresh from a procurement process involving all the UK’s major forklift suppliers, timber specialists Metsä Wood, welcomed a select number of guests to their Boston site to celebrate the implementation of a new partnership with Windsor Materials Handing.
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Windsor Stacks Up For Metsä Wood
Windsor has been awarded a long-term nationwide contract for the supply and maintenance of the MHE fleet of premium-quality wood products business, Metsä Wood.
Does your business suffer from Parkinson’s Law of Triviality?
Best known for his adage, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” former 1950s civil servant, C. Northcote Parkinson, has passed into business folklore as a wry observer of corporate culture. So much so that the law has even gone global, as Mikhail Gorbachev observed in 1986, when Alessandro Natta complained about a swelling bureaucracy in Italy, “Parkinson's Law works everywhere".
Onwards and upwards!
Congratulations to our friends at Windsor on their latest expansion - a brand new Peterborough branch! The Windsor name has been synonymous with excellent material handling and access systems since 1977, and ever since they began, the business has focussed on growing into one of the UK’s leading materials handling specialists. The brand new Peterborough branch is the latest indicator of their recent accomplishments. The branch has moved to a purpose-built 9,000 sq ft facility to cater for an expanding workforce and product range. Mark Collin, Peterborough’s service manager, believes it is an exciting move, enabling an even better service. Says Mark: “We required a larger building with more facilities to maintain our great service and continue to provide the widest range of equipment. We have therefore built our own new, much larger, branch with modern workshops and offices. It’s [...]
Konecranes Picked Up By Windsor
Our mates at Windsor now supply Konecranes equipment. The company’s first lift truck was shipped from their factory in southern Sweden way back in 1959. For a business that lives and breathes lift trucks, their Scandi origins are no surprise. Here’s a feature we wrote for Windsor on the strange appeal of our colder, European cousins and their affinity to materials handling… […]
Nixon Hires Windsor
TB Marketing’s two Ash’s, Aislin and Ashley, took a trip to the North East to visit a happy new Windsor customer… Nixon Hire, a leading provider of plant and site equipment with bases throughout the UK, has taken delivery of a fleet of Doosan D110 forklifts for its 14 depots. Nixon Hire is the epitome of a family-run business that has grown into a market leader. Thanks in no small part to the hard work and vision of its founder, John Nixon, the company now employs over 310 people, has numerous bases throughout northern England and Scotland as well as a presence in the Middle East. […]
Tele-vision Centre
Windsor is now delighted to be offering Dieci telehandlers as part of its extensive product portfolio. Dieci was the first company in Europe to produce telescopic handlers in 1983 and are well known for being innovators in the field. Dieci Ltd is involved in the development of machines tailored to the UK and with well over 36 models in its complete range, has extensive knowledge of industrial, building and agricultural sectors. […]
Windsor Opens Wakefield Branch
Leading materials handling business, Windsor, has unveiled its newest branch in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, taking the company’s total number of branches to nine. Established in 1977, the company has grown into one of the country’s leading providers of forklift truck and aerial access platform hire, sales and maintenance services. Managing director, Stephen Burton, believes the new branch in Ossett, Wakefield will provide a modern centre for the support of local businesses. […]
Smales Order Is A Big Catch for Windsor
Hull-based fish merchant F Smales and Son has taken delivery of a new fleet of forklifts for its national distribution centre, supplied by local forklift experts Windsor Materials Handling. The new fleet of Doosan counterbalance forklifts, reach trucks and pallet trucks, will operate in the company’s main cold store, which forms the hub of the operation to supply fish & chip shops and large food service specialists throughout the country. […]