Anything else is a Waste of Space (31st January 2012)

As pioneers of the Articulated Forklift, we have built our business on the principles of innovative product development.

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Long loads & high lifts (1st January 2012)

Simon Duddy recently had the pleasure of visiting several warehouses in the South West and South Wales to see a variety of bespoke Bendi solutions in their natural environment

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Bendi raises breast cancer awareness (30th November 2011)

After what has been a very successful year for the company, the girls at Bendi now want to get something off their chests (literally!) and give a little back…by stripping off for charity!

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Bendi VNA trucks save space for ASDA (1st October 2011)

Back of house solution involving VNA and Mini Bendi pedestrian trucks provides nationwide warehousing blueprint for British supermarket chain

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Busy Times At Bendi (6th September 2011)

The summer months have been far from sleepy lazy days at Bendi. Our order books have been filled to bursting, far surpassing anything we have seen before.

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Bendi takes vna for a walk (1st September 2011)

New from Translift Bendi is a VNA pedestrian-controlled solution. The Mini Bendi pedestrian articulated forklift is reported to offer superior levels of safety and functionality.

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Built on 'beating heart'of R&D (1st August 2011)

Translift Bend's reputation has been built by listening to the marketplace, and pouring the resulting intelligence into the company's R&D department – the 'beating heart' of Bendi, according to MD Simon Brow

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Double pallets handled (1st March 2011)

Forklift attachments spearhead new product releases from Translift Bendi.These launches follow a raft of innovations unveiled at the end of last year

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Ears to the ground (1st January 2011)

Handling & Storage Solutions caught up with Bendi at IMHX and found a company focused on engineering excellence and listening to its customers

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Coping with the cold (1st December 2010)

Full cold store cab, the Arctic Bendi is one of a number of innovations unveiled by Translift Bendi at IMHX

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Bendi rocks IMHX (24th November 2010)

The articulated forklift manufacturer rocked the opening day of IMHX last week. You can see the video here.

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Bendi walks the walk (1st September 2010)

Translift Bendi's new pedestrian forklift, the Mini Bendi, combines 220 degree load rotation and nimble handheld oper

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Innovate to progress (1st August 2010)

Anyone who says the past two years has been a walk in the park is kidding themselves but businesses should not be overwhelmed. Simon Brown, md of Bendi insists innovation remains key

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Articulated Efficiency How Bendi articulated trucks could halve your energy costs (24th May 2010)

Heating, lighting and maintenance all play their part in the increasing costs of operating a warehouse, as well as the costs of the property and staffing.

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Trucks facilitate growth (1st April 2010)

Wholesaler DCS Europe has operated Bendi articulated trucks in its warehouse facilities exclusively for over ten years, carrying out more than 2.5 million pallet movements.Warehouse manager Jason Maxwell was instrumental in

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Packing in the pallets (1st April 2010)

Articulated trucks can help warehouse managers make better use of space offering lower costs per pallet stored, argues Simon Brown md at Translift Bendi

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Innovation trumps slumps (27th January 2010)

Simon Brown, MD, Translift Bendi Ltd says endless innovation is the business model that his father, Freddy Brown, inventor of the Bendi forklift, has always espoused and which underlies his stunning success.

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Innovation trumps slumps (14th January 2010)

Innovation, Innovation, innovation: The business model that my father, Freddy Brown, inventor of the Bendi forklift, has always espoused and which underlies his stunning success.

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Articulated Efficiency (30th September 2009)

How Bendi articulated trucks could halve your energy costs

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Winning back lost warehouse areas (1st September 2009)

Bendi says its articulated truck enables more storage capacity in less space. As a rule, warehouses designed for counterbalance trucks are the least space efficient, with aisle widths of 3-4m in common use. Turning and

From Industry update

Perfect ten: ten years of Bendi at DCS (1st August 2009)

DCS Europe, a UK top ten wholesaler (Grocery Powerlist 2009) of toiletries and household brands, has operated Bendi articulated trucks in its warehouse facilities exclusively for over ten years. In that time, the trucks hav

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Bendi's decade long deal at DCS (30th July 2009)

DCS Europe, a UK top ten wholesaler (Grocery Powerlist 2009) of toiletries and household brands, has operated Bendi articulated trucks in its warehouse facilities exclusively for over ten years. In that time, the trucks have carried out an estimated 2.5 million pallet movements.

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Animal roars ahead (1st June 2009)

Action sports brand Animal has gained up to 1,500 pallet positions in its global distribution warehouse by using Translift Bendi three-wheelers in racking no wider than 1.8m. Productivity has also trebled

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Animal roars ahead with Bendi (27th May 2009)

Action sports brand Animal has gained up to 1,500 pallet positions in its global distribution warehouse by using three-wheel articulated forklifts from Translift Bendi in racking no wider than 1.8m. Productivity has also trebled.

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Bendi: More versatility, less compromise (14th April 2009)

Bendi says its articulated truck allows much higher storage densities than even highly specialised and costly wire/rail guided very narrow aisle trucks, saving space, time and money. See for yourself at stand Demo 3.

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Bendi cost savings help firms beat downturn (23rd February 2009)

Under increasing pressure to trim costs, warehouse operators are recognising that the space-saving abilities of Bendi articulated trucks are helping them to meet these demands – as wasted space costs money to build, heat, light, maintain and pay rent and business rates on.

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Articulated efficiency (1st February 2009)

How Bendi articulated trucks could halve your energy costs

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Bendi boost for Megaman (28th August 2008)

Megaman has improved its Welwyn Garden City warehouse efficiency by renting two refurbished articulating Bendi forklifts, and designing a new warehouse around them.

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Warehouse efficiency transformed (1st August 2008)

By choosing an articulating sideloader forklift from Translift Bendi, of Redditch, Action Storage has transformed its Milton Keynes warehouse efficiency in ways that no other forklift could have achieved

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Renting refurbished forklifts (1st August 2008)

Megaman has improved its Welwyn Garden City warehouse efficiency by renting two refurbished articulating Bendi forklifts, and designing a new warehouse around them.

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Loading on both sides (1st August 2008)

As Action Storage's business expanded, the company decided to rearrange its racking and shelving which meant it also had to change the type of forklift it had been using. Tom Brialey the MD did not want a dedicated V

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Trucking with gas saves costs (1st June 2008)

Palletways move 14,000 pallets every day in the UK, and now two gaspowered Bendi forklifts from Translift Bendi are helping the company cope with massive growth on its Lichfield site. Three electric articulating fork

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Bendi forklift ensures Leon Jaeggi’s fire survival (14th March 2008)

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High trailer turnaround (1st February 2008)

Logistics services provider, Euro Continental has turned to Translift Bendi to gain best use of limited storage space and achieve impressive lorry turnaround times.

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Bendi goes AC (21st January 2008)

AC introduced to Bendi's rear and front wheel drive models this year...

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Bendi plans articulated yard truck (20th December 2007)

Translift Bendi plans to build a yard version of its articulated truck in 2008, managing director Simon Brown told Handling & Storage solutions. Priced around £20,000 Brown believes it will attract firms looking to replace a counterbalance and reach truck with one unit...

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Payback in under a year (1st December 2007)

Gwent-based automotive parts supplier Mollertech has achieved payback in under a year after leasing three articulated Bendis.

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Pushing the extra yard (1st December 2007)

Year on year growth of 80 per cent necessitates a factory extension for Bendi. But md Simon Brown says the extra capacity still won't be enough should its forthcoming yard truck and European version come good. Brendan Coyne

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Bendi honoured in business awards (30th November 2007)

Translift Bendi, manufacturers of the articulated Bendi forklift truck, has been honoured as the winner of The Birmingham Post Business Award for September, the prestigious award is the latest accolade to be bestowed on the multi award winning firm...

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Heartbeat Manufacturing transforms warehouse efficiency with Bendi forklifts (25th September 2007)

Growing pressures on warehouse space often see companies turn to Translift Bendi for its articulated forklifts to provide the solution, and Redditch-based Heartbeat Manufacturing is a good example...

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Translift Bendi plans big factory expansion (30th August 2007)

Translift Bendi, manufacturer of the Bendi forklift, plans to expand its factory at Redditch by 75% this Autumn to cope with soaring demand for its articulated forklifts.

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Bendi articulated trucks could double your storage space (1st August 2007)

Bendi articulated trucks could More storage capacity in less space too good to be true? Translift Bendi thinks not

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Articulated truck 'doubles pallet storage' (1st August 2007)

Reorganising its warehouse storage around the articulating Bendi forklift, Online Packaging thinks it can now store twice as many pallets than previously possible.

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7,000th truck delivered in UK (1st August 2007)

Translift Bendi has reached another milestone in its articulated truck history with the delivery of its 7,000th truck into the UK Over recent years the articulated marketplace has out grown its niche label and Bendi t

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Bendi’s 7,000th milestone (20th July 2007)

The delivery of Bendi's 7,000th truck into the UK marks a key milestone for the truck specilaist which has come a long way since the first Bendi rolled off the production line in the mid 1980's...

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More storage in less space (1st June 2007)

The Translift Bendi articulated truck has been designed to make the most of storage capacity.

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Freight forwarder doubles storage with a Bendi forklift (17th May 2007)

Maximising usable storage space was the only way freight forwarders, GSG Cargo Ltd, of Worthing, could make its new warehouse pay, and the Bendi forklift was the only practical solution, explained MD, Stuart Spicer...

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Bendi innovations star at IMHX (1st April 2007)

Translift Bendi stunned visitors to IMHX with two innovative new articulated truck models, plus two exciting concept trucks, due for full production over the next 12-18 months

It would be easy to rest on our laurels, having

From Features

Save space, time and money (1st April 2007)

Translift says the Bendi puts an end to lost storage space – saving money in the process.

Aisle widths are only part of the equation: turning and loading and unloading space at the ends of aisles also adds up – but can be ut

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Double your money maker (1st April 2007)

Freight forwarders, GSG Cargo needed more storage space to make its new compact warehouse pay.

So it designed the racking around a Translift Bendi and went for a refurbished truck to keep costs minimal. The truck negates the

From Lift trucks

The future looks bright for the Bendi articulated truck (28th March 2007)

Since the original Mark-I Bendi was unveiled in March 1986, the Bendi articulated truck has undergone continual development...

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Benefits of Bendi (15th February 2007)

Operated by thousands of companies worldwide, discover how you could benefit from Bendi...

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Bendi becomes a museum piece (1st February 2007)

Translift Bendi has presented the earliest known example of a Bendi to the National Fork Truck Heritage Centre at the Midlands Railway Centre near Ripley

Commenting on the presentation of the truck to the National fork Truc

From Lift trucks

More storage in less space (19th January 2007)

With the costs of operating a warehouse ever increasing, it makes sense to try and achieve maximum storage capaicty in minimum space, which is where the the Bendi articulated truck can help...

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Historic Bendi presented to National Museum (19th December 2006)

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Have you taken the Bendi challenge? (1st December 2006)

Translift Bendi invites you to take the Bendi Challenge and put your skills to the test against British Touring Car Champion Matt Neal.

Swapping his type R Honda for a Bendi, Matt has loaded pallets from warehouse into deliv

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Think you're fast in a forktruck? (25th October 2006)

Think you could be the Bendi Challenge Champ? Prove your articulated forktruck driving skills against British Touring Car champion Matt Neal on Bendi's online warehouse simulator game!

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Bendi forklifts support growth (1st October 2006)

Thames News Services chose three articulating Bendi forklifts from Translift Bendi as the solution to help solve problems associated with rapid growth, according to operations manager, Robbie Oliver.

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New warehouse designed around Bendi forklift (15th August 2006)

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Electric Bendis complete Task (1st August 2006)

Three electric Translift Bendi trucks help Essex-based distributor, Task Force get the most out of available space and run a flexible, costeffective operation. The articulating B40 trucks work in aisles just 2m wide, providin

From Lift trucks

Bendi provides flexibility (1st April 2006)

Based in Northampton, Lindab's national distribution distribution hub was purpose built with Translift Bendi forklifts in mind.

From Lift trucks

All-wheel drive cuts the spin (1st February 2006)

Many loading bay operations involve forklifts moving between open yards and covered premises. During inclement weather, the risks associated with the loading area become even more acute. Wet and muddy conditions outside can lead to slippery floor con

From Logistics distribution

Improved handling & storage (1st February 2006)

Replacing two Bendis bought six years ago, bpi films has invested in two of the latest version of the truck from Translift, helping the company maximise handling efficiency and make the best use of available space.

From Lift trucks

Huge savings enabled (1st December 2005)

Aerosol valve producer, Lindal Valve Co is saving over £30,000 per year on leasing costs alone thanks to articulating electric Bendi Forklifts from Translift.

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Bendi replaces two old trucks (1st October 2005)

When maintenance costs on its 18 year old reach truck and 25 year old counterbalance truck became prohibitive, lighting manufacturer, Jerrard Bros needed a replacement truck that would do the work of both its old trucks, operate in 2.1m aisles and be

From Facilities Management

B3 fills in for VNA (1st August 2005)

A Bendi B313 from Translift has enabled vinyl flooring producer, Polyflor to carry on working and save money.

From Lift trucks

The tool for the job (1st August 2005)

An electric Bendi from Translift is helping Robson Tools keep up with rapid growth at its new 38,000ft2 Twyford warehouse.

From Lifting & Moving

1.65m-capable gas Bendi (1st June 2005)

Translift Bendi claims its new gas-powered Series 3 articulating forklift will outperform all competitors in its class – particularly on space savings.

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Gas Bendi & mass B3 (1st April 2005)

Translift claims its newly launched gas-powered Bendi outmatches all other gaspowered articulating forklifts in space-saving performance.

From News

Bendi beats world lifting height record (1st February 2005)

Translift Bendi says two articulated forklifts ordered for Great Bear Distribution, of South Kirby, will break the world record for articulated fork truck lift heights.

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Bendi boosts Trans Haul’s pallet storage (1st February 2005)

Compared with its previous reach truck handling operation, Trans Haul says it has gained 30% more pallet positions by leasing two Translift Bendi forklifts. “Previously we were using two types of forklift: counterbalanced for lorry loading/unloading

From Lift trucks

Plant holds no truck with electricity (1st February 2005)

Warehousing efficiency at automotive refinish products manufacturer, U-Pol, has dramatically improved since the introduction of two gaspowered Bendi Aisle- Masters into its manufacturing plant.

From Facilities Management

Articulated trucks gain storage (1st December 2004)

By renting two Bendi BN40 forklifts from Translift, 3PL provider, Debach Enterprises expects to gain 16% more pallet positions at its Ipswitch distribution centre. A further benefit is that, due to the Bendis flexibility, the company expects to be ab

From Lift trucks

Truck gives 25% more storage (1st October 2004)

A 25% increase in storage capacity over a reach truck operation and a short payback period have been reported by Multi Resource Marketing (MRM) following its purchase of a series 5 electric Translift Bendi forklift.

From Lift trucks

LPG articulated trucks (1st October 2004)

Since integrating LPG Bendi Aisle-Master forklifts into materials handling fleets, managers at B&Qs Warehouse Stores and Super Centres have reported a marked rise in productivity. Translift is the only company to offer gas powered articulated trucks,

From Lift trucks

Interface issues (1st October 2004)

It it all too easy to choose forklifts based on which company can provide the cheapest deals, However, there are other important costs to consider, as Bill Redmond explains

From News

Economical alternative to VNA (1st August 2004)

Two Translift Bendi forklifts are reported to have enabled Century Logistics to start a new 3PL contract with Dorel Juvenile in the safest way. As well as enabling high storage density, thanks to its multi-tasking abilities, the Bendi also offers hig

From Products

Gas powered for 24/7 operation (1st April 2004)

Three gas powered Translift Bendi Aisle-Masters have enabled logistics provider, Widdowson Group to respond to a customer request for changes to the storage and handling of its product, as well as increasing picking efficiency.

From Lift trucks

New three-wheel Bendi for the mass market (1st April 2004)

New from Translift is a three-wheel electric Bendi. Designed for mass market use, the B3 has a back-to-front design, with the two rear wheels and a single steering wheel at the front. According to Freddie Brown, Translift MD and inventor of the new t

From News

Articulating truck is LPG powered (1st February 2004)

Eddie Stobart was one of the first companies to realise the advantages of the original Translift Bendi over a decade ago. Continuing this relationship, the company has added 11 Bendi Aisle-Masters to the fleet at its Warrington facility.

From Lift trucks

Improved safety and efficiency (1st February 2004)

Use of two Translift Bendi forklifts is reported to have transformed warehouse efficiency and improved safety for mail order company, Scotts of Stow.

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