Category: Case Study

Announcing New Whitepaper on the Safe Installation of Racking

New whitepaper explores safety tips and strategies for scissor lift and forklift truck use in racking and mezzanine installs

Horizon Platforms are pleased to announce the launch of a new whitepaper aimed at racking, storage and warehousing professionals. The whitepaper contains essential best practice for the installation of racking. Particularly in reference to the selection, safe usage and management of scissor lift MEWPs and forklift trucks.

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DHL and Horizon Platforms: A Partnership Built on Excellence

The Background

DHL is one of the largest logistics companies in the world. With almost 400,000 employees operating in 220 countries, DHL delivers 1.5 billion parcels every year. The company has an extensive presence in the UK, and offer an ever-expanding range of products and services to businesses and individuals. For several years DHL have partnered with Horizon Platforms for hire of scissor lifts and cherry pickers.

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Working Together: How Horizon helped a national electrical contractor with a large multi-site supermarket project

The Challenge

For the Project Co-ordinator at a large electrical contractor, ensuring a successful multi-site rollout with a major supermarket is a high stakes game. Each store has its own specification, and there can be hundreds of project elements on the go at the same time. It’s a chain of requirements that are often interlinked, and plans can have complex project dependencies that need to be in place for the contractor to move forward. Like all chains, it’s only as strong as its weakest link.

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