RECRUITMENT challenges in the warehouse sector are being helped by the ‘booming’ market for equipment and machinery, according to packaging supplier Southgate Global.
The business is reporting ‘sustained growth in demand’ for its equipment which covers mechanised case taping through to shrink wrapping.
Southgate Global serves over 600 distributors across the UK and Europe, with customers specialising in warehousing and logistics. The firm revealed that the warehousing sector is currently experiencing record vacancies, in part due to the ongoing shift to e-commerce from physical stores.
David Grantham, head of sales at Southgate Global, said, “In an increasingly competitive market, levels of automation within manufacturing, assembly and despatch can certainly help improve efficiencies, when pressures on the workforce continues to be a cause for concern.
“Case taping, stretch wrapping, shrink wrapping and strapping when automating is utilised can significantly increase productivity, improving throughput and quality with reduced manual handling as well as reducing material usage. The use and growth of new machinery has increased over the past decade and is expanding across numerous end-of-line processes, such as wrapping.”
Southgate added that this market growth has enabled the business to extend its portfolio of machinery and equipment, such as the new Xtegra Tegrabond Water Activated Tape Case Taper, which launched recently.
