All Equipment News articles – Page 57
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DAVID CHARMAN
This year has started well for the car wash industry the very cold weather and snow always stimulates tremendous demand to clear the salt and grit from every part of the car. However, the dark clouds are gathering (or not!) as the extremely dry weather last year has caused ...
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Brulines moves Brobot to real-time fuel monitoring
Brulines Fuel Solutions (BFS) has concluded a contract with Top 50 Indie Brobot Petroleum, to move the 23-strong group’s fuel monitoring from traditional statistical inventory reconciliation (SIR) to continuous fuel monitoring (CFM).Where SIR shows what has happened to fuel stocks, CFM records pump meter readings and tank levels literally every ...
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Best year ever for KPS
Petrol pipework company KPS has hailed 2011 as its best year ever, with more product launches than any other previous year.And KPS CEO Lars Selling is expecting this year to be at least as good as 2011, despite the insecurities in some European financial markets."We are going to focus on ...
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Barton in full flow
Aylesbury-based Alpeco has supplied and installed a purpose-made product intake cabinet to Barton Petroleum at its Watford depot to improve stock reconciliation and security.The fabricated steel cabinet houses four LCM25 1100 LPM Flow meters, which accurately monitor the volume of fuel delivered into the depot storage tanks by road tankers, ...
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Yorkon hits 50th site
Off-site construction specialist Yorkon has completed another milestone for Tesco its 50th modular petrol filling station (PFS) building.The site at Leigh in the North West was the first application of Tesco’s latest kiosk design and successfully achieved an EPC energy efficiency rating of ’A’. New developments to the store ...
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Improved logistics
Tokheim UK has appointed Norbert Dentressangle to manage the French supply chain flow of fuel dispensing equipment used on forecourts.The logistics company will transport finished product from Tokheim’s UK manufacturing facility in Dundee to its plant in Grentheville in France. A vehicle then collects components from Tokheim’s supplier in St ...
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High impact with LED
Morrisons’ petrol station in Illingworth, West Yorkshire, is making energy savings of around 64% after installing the Philips LED lighting solution. The LED lighting design is being used right across the site from canopy and car wash through to signage and forecourt kiosk, including the chiller cabinets.Ian Jagger, group ...
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PETER HARDING
If you’re thinking of changing your epos system in the future here are some points to watch out for when making the selection.Firstly consider carefully what it is that you want to achieve for your business. This will include considering what you have now and what you might be moving ...
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Eurotank adds interceptor and septic tank service
Eurotank Environmental has launched an interceptor and septic tank repair service to address the common problem of cracks causing groundwater to leak into the tank.The service includes full surveys and repairs of both interceptor and septic tanks without having to dig them up and replace them, which is said to ...
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Forecourt vending
he first-ever automated 24-hour shop has opened in the UK on Campbell Garages service station in Stornoway, Scotland.The self-service vending machine from eShop Automated Solutions supplies daily essentials such as milk, bread, sandwiches, tea, coffee, sugar, hygiene products and travel accessories 24-hours a day.Easy-to-use and designed and built with ...
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kevin eastwood
BOSS is best known for implementing its effective Forecourt Watch schemes on forecourts to tackle drive-offs and the successful Payment Watch scheme to recover monies owed by customers claiming to have ’no means to pay’. However, retailers need to be aware of the possibility for losses to occur internally, as ...
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Broadband savings
PayPoint has extended its range of support services by offering a competitive rate for business grade broadband exclusively for its retailers. The new Business Broadband deal through TalkTalk Business is being offered to all retailers with a PayPoint terminal from £10.50 a month, and is said to provide faster speeds, ...
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Autogas opens two more LPG sites in the Midlands
Autogas has opened two new LPG refuelling sites in the Midlands at the Shell-branded forecourt at Hopwood Park Services at junction two of the M42 and Shell Bridgetown in Stratford-upon-Avon. The two sites have received commendation from local MPs. Bromsgrove MP Sajid Javid, who officially opened the Shell Hopwood ...
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Griller in the midst
Metcalfe Catering Equipment has introduced the Roband Grill Station for making grilled sandwiches, paninis and focaccia snacks to order. With the elements embedded into the smooth die-cast aluminium cooking surfaces, the grill has been designed to produce an even, efficient heat transfer, ensuring that food is cooked thoroughly with uniform ...
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Don’t fit and forget LPG installations, warns Wigfull
LPG system installer John Wigfull & Co has warned retailers not to fit and forget their LPG installations. Speaking at the APEA conference in Coventry last month, director Richard Wigfull said retailers must ensure they have a routine maintenance schedule in place because final responsibility rests with the site operator."It’s ...
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Heading for the cloud
Retail technology provider Torex has launched a cloud-based point-of-sale system that works via a browser on any tablet, smartphone or traditional POS. The Kachng! HTML5 POS is said to be suited to small and medium-sized businesses which do not need to invest in a full-service traditional POS setup.As a cloud-based ...
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Family car wash firm with real focus on innovation
While the trend on UK forecourts may be to bury the car wash area under a shiny new shop extension, the same cannot be said about the rest of Europe, according to the powers that be at Otto Christ AG, the German masters in vehicle wash manufacturing. And they should ...
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Jet wash special offer from Kärcher
Kärcher Vehicle Wash is offering free servicing, warranty or chemicals to operators who order its buy-time SB Wash-E by the end of the year.Retailers can choose to receive either a one-year free service contract, two-year extended warranty or three-month free supply of chemical by ordering the SB Wash-E with frost ...
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Movers and shakers
UK fuelling solutions’ specialist Cameron Forecourt has strengthened its board with the appointment of two new directors. The Barnsley-based company has appointed Martyn Gent as sales & marketing director and Graham Webb as quality and health & safety director. Gent joined the company in 2009 having spent almost 30 years ...
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PETER HARDING
You will be seeing more and more of this logo in the next 12 months. It indicates the acceptance of contactless payment and will be added to terminals soon. There will be some big advantages to retailers adopting this technology. Speed of payments is key and there will also be ...