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Exhibitions 2010

Flowstore are to be attending two exhibitions during the latter part of 2010

PROLOGISTICS
We are attending Prologistics that takes place on the 29th and 30th of September 2010 in Brussels Expo. Held in high regard by professional visitors PROLOGISTICS is dedicated to internal logistics, goods flows and inventory management.
Please click here to register for the Prologistics Exhibition 29 & 30 Sept 2010

IMHX
We are also attending IMHX in Birmingham at the NEC. 16 – 19th November 2010 IMHX is the International Materials Handling Exhibition. IMHX is the UK’s premier logistics, materials handling and storage exhibition.

European Sales Office

Flowstore are pleased to announce the opening of their European Sales Office in April 2010. Based in Luxembourg, Anthony Vigerstaff MBA MSc will be handling sales in the European region, including specialist sales of FlowTube products in Benelux and Norway in particular.

With a career in Project Management & Computer Aided Design within aeronautical and automotive industries, Anthony has a wide understanding of current manufacturing activities, where the emphasis on Lean methods is paramount.

Increasing enquiries and sales within the European zone has led to the opening of the new sales office, and demonstrates Flowstore's commitment to providing a high level of customer service to both existing and new clients.

FlowTube Staging System

FlowTube’s modular staging system is a competitively priced and highly effective staging system, which gives the user ultimate choice and flexibility. Whether it is to be used as at exhibitions, as a mobile stage, a church or school stage, a fashion runway or model catwalk it can either be a standalone build or integrated into an existing structure.

You can choose the height, width, colour, virtually any layout configuration, and whether it’s can be permanent or temporary. The FlowTube staging system is easy to build and the perfect solution for most staging requirements.

Using reusable steel tubes, joints, and accessories a stage can be customised for any specific use, and its configuration changed in next to no time. The possibilities are endless.

The FlowTube stage is strong, safe and lightweight and packs away into a compact mobile trolley, which takes up minimal space and can be moved into position with ease.

There is a choice of eight tube colours and two joint finishes. We can create a visual of your finished stage.

Click here to read more about our modular stage system

FlowTube Banner Frame System

The new FlowTube Banner Frame System is a competitively priced highly versatile solution, which gives the user ultimate flexibility. Whether it is to be used in any display scenario or exhibition or retail environments where a display banner is required. It can either be a standalone banner or integrated into an existing retail, display or exhibition system.

You can choose the width, height, colour, and whether it’s can be temporary or permanent. Easy-to-build, the FlowTube banner frame system is the perfect solution for most display requirements.

Abel & Cole install LS2 Carton Live Storage System

Flowstore recently installed an order picking system for internet organic food delivery specialists, Abel & Cole. Flowstore’s Carton Live Storage system, LS2, has meant that Abel & Coles order picking capacity has doubled, and picks-per-person have increased.

"We would not have coped without the new live storage
picking system", said Rob Grimmer, Head of Production

Flowstore News Archive

Our Move: In Autumn 2008 we moved..........but not far.
Our address, post code & phone details are all new
Flowstore Systems Ltd, Fairview Business Centre
29-31 Clayton Road, Hayes,
Middlesex UB3 1AN

Tel: +44 (0) 845 270 3633
Fax: +44 (0) 845 270 3643
(all calls charged at a local rate)

Adjustable height workstations: An height adjustable workstation has been designed to either sit on any workstation, or be integrated into the build of FlowTube workstations and work benches.

This now means the worktop can be customised for different activities and operators. The worktop can be raised above the pre-set height or alternatively if the adjustable worktop is counter sunk into the workstation the top can now be raised or lowered and customised for different uses, regardless of the manufacturing sector.

To read more about FlowTube’s workstations click here

Matthew Stone: Matthew Stone has joined us as a Sales Engineer for Live Storage & associated products.

Before Matthew joined us he had been in the storage equipment industry for 22 years, and during the last 5 years prior to joining us specialised in designing and selling large picking systems to all market sectors. He believes that Flowstore's unique position as a specialist manufacturer are best placed to service this complex and demanding market.

In his spare time Matthew enjoys playing the saxophone in a big band, and sailing at the weekend with his young family.

Toyota chose FlowTube: Pioneers of Lean Manufacturing, Toyota, selected FlowTube as a versatile system to use in their European Global Production Training Centre, E-GPC. Having used our products before, FlowTube was chosen as the most suitable solution to support the construction of bespoke custom designs for the dedicated production-training centre.

FlowTube is already extensively used in the main manufacturing and assembly plant, as it complies with the Continuous Improvement Technique, otherwise known as Kaizen.

To read more about our Toyota appointment click here

DuraFlow: October 2006 saw the launch of Flowstore’s latest product DuraFlow.

DuraFlow is a pre-assembled modular wheel system designed to simply and quickly convert most pallet rack structures into dynamic, versatile carton flow storage. Strong multi-wheel roller track sections are supplied in standard widths of 305 or 405mm with universal beam hooks enabling easy positioning onto existing pallet rack cross beams.

It only takes a few minutes to fit a whole shelf level, saving up to 90% of the usual installation time for live storage systems.

To read more about Duraflow click here