All Equipment News articles – Page 46
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Wayne and Intel develop new payment system
Wayne Fueling Systems has announced the launch of a next-generation electronic payment system (EPS) solution in collaboration with Intel Services using its ’Platform for Retail’ software for operators in the US. The cloud-based solution processes electronic payment transactions with additional payment security via tokenisation – a secure encryption process – ...
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Micros taken over in £3.3bn deal
Micros Systems, a leading provider of information technology solutions to the UK forecourt sector, has been taken over by Oracle, a supplier of business software and hardware, in a $5.3bn (£3.3bn) deal. The new owner sought to reassure customers in a letter saying: “Oracle is committed to protecting and enhancing ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: New website for EPOS specialist
EPOS hardware manufacturer Posiflex has strengthened its growing presence in the UK market with the launch of its new UK website. PosiflexUK.co.uk showcases the EPOS manufacturer’s point-of-sale systems, highlighting the potential savings offered by its latest energy efficient touchscreen terminals. Posiflex designs and manufactures an extensive range of EPOS systems ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Kärcher makeover for valeting centre
A forecourt business in North Wales has revamped its car wash facilities with a new Kärcher makeover. Stavros Williams and John Cunnah operate a number of diverse businesses in North Wales, as well as running Threeways Garage, a Shell and Spar branded forecourt and convenience store in Abergele. In addition ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Imperial rolling out new gantries
Imperial Tobacco has committed to a substantial increase in its level of furniture investment to support retailers ahead of the full tobacco display restrictions, which come into force on April 6, 2015. The additional investment means that the installation of the compliancy solution, for 17,000 multiple outlets and independent stores, ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Tokheim has its Eye on theft
New software developed to work with the Tokheim Eye system can detect many different types of theft and will assist forecourt owners and managers to reduce losses, according to the equipment’s UK distributor Metro Security. Metro’s managing director Trevor Wallace said that Tokheim Eye’s Shrinkage Analysis software exploits the system’s ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Warning over rise in claims
Forecourt operators need to be extra careful about any potential risks on their sites as the rise of no win no fee lawyers leads to more and more claims, warns sign installation and maintenance firm Xmo Strata. To help counter this threat it has told its employees and sub contractors ...
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NewsEQUIPMENT NEWS: Xmo Strata wins BP upgrade contract
Xmo Strata has won a contract to upgrade 40 BP dealer sites to the company’s latest visual standards. The work includes painting, upgrading price signs to LED displays (in situ), refurbishment of existing signs and replacement of those that are damaged. One of the first upgrades was carried out on ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Gilbarco partners VeriFone
Gilbarco Veeder-Root and VeriFone Systems, the secure electronic payment solutions provider, have announced that they are partnering to offer “next generation forecourt payment solutions” and to create the largest at-pump interactive digital media network worldwide. The two companies will collaborate on future fuel dispenser payment platforms to be developed and ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Franklin recalls Flex-ing hose
Franklin Fueling Systems has issued a product recall notice for its one inch Flex-ing-branded hose. The hoses affected are one inch diameter but could be of varying lengths and have fixed or swivel fittings. They have date codes M1014 to M3014, and the affected hose models are FLHFR30X XXX and ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Wayne enhances POS options
PriceAdvantage, a fuel pricing software company and a division of Skyline Products, has announced validation and support for the Wayne Nucleus point-of-sale (POS) system to synchronise fuel price changes from headquarters to the street. The validation enables convenience store owners to determine fuel pricing strategies and get updated pricing to ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Kalibrate recruits new marketing chief
Kalibrate Technologies (formerly KSS Fuels), a provider of software-based products and services to the petroleum retail industry, has strengthened its executive management team with the appointment of Douglas Henderson as senior vice-president of marketing. Kalibrate says Henderson brings experience in driving revenue and gross margin expansion, leading sales and marketing ...
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Experts say forecourt roofs ideal to harness solar energy
The government wants to see a massive boost in the amount of solar power generated on the roof tops of commercial properties, and a leading installer says petrol filling stations could be ideally placed to cash in. In a speech to the British Photo Voltaic Association, Gregory Barker, a minister ...
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MRH stays with CSG
MRH Retail, number one in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies, has renewed its waste management contract with Cleansing Service Group (CSG). The new three-year contract means total waste management specialist CSG will continue to provide a ’one-stop shop’ of drainage and mechanical maintenance services to all MRH service stations. MRH ...
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DSL Group in pump-top promo deal with Co-op
DSL Group, the specialist in petrol pump-top promotions and distribution, has secured an exclusive 12-month forecourt promotion agreement with 200 Co-operative stores across the UK. "The recently agreed deal means that various DSL products will be available in all Co-operative forecourts, offering consumers high quality, great value products," said DSL’s ...
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System offers both convenience and comfort
OPW has launched its new CNG Type 2 fuelling system, which incorporates OPW’s Type 2 nozzle with a three-way valve for time-fill or fast-fill service in commercial and industrial CNG fuelling applications. OPW says the CNG Type 2 system represents the latest innovation in industrial and commercial fuelling and has ...
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Amscreen extends link with Welcome Break
Amscreen Digital Solutions has extended its partnership with Welcome Break. As well as a five-year renewal of the existing network of screens in forecourts and WH Smith retailers at Welcome Break locations, the deal will see screens installed in break areas and team rooms to enable internal communications and better ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Fafnir launches delivery gauge display
Fafnir has launched a new addition to the VISY-X range of tank level gauges - the VISY-TD Display. The VISY-TD has been designed to sit outside the forecourt station building to provide the fuel delivery truck driver with full visibility and the most up-to-date information regarding clearances of individual tanks, ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: New appointment at Franklin Fueling Systems
Franklin Fueling Systems, the system solutions provider for the petroleum equipment market, has appointed Balaji Swaminathan to the position of marketing director. Balaji will lead Franklin’s team of product managers in managing their respective product lines, as well as developing and implementing strategies to grow sales and market share for ...
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EQUIPMENT NEWS: Fafnir explains Vaporix range
Fafnir has launched a new visual demonstration tool to support its Vaporix product range. Vaporix is the Fafnir product range that meets the requirements of the Stage II Vapour Recovery Directive. Fafnir says it recognises that in markets where legislation is pending to meet the 2009/126/EC Directive of the European ...