MasterMover

Powering up its range of all-terrain load moving equipment, electric tug specialist MasterMover has developed the new ATT400+, a powerful electric tug with a high performance hydraulic coupling. The ATT400+ allows plant engineers, maintenance staff and handling operators in industrial environments to move heavy loads of up to 5,000kg on castors or 40,000kg on rails.

Offshore-based lifting company, Safelift Offshore, has signed an agreement with MasterMover, an electric tug manufacturer, to distribute MasterMover’s range of electric tugs in Scotland. Safelift Offshore supplies to the offshore oil and gas industry, as well as to onshore sectors including the manufacturing industry.

A lot of the time porters are the oil in the machine of many NHS hospitals, moving goods, equipment and patients around hospitals and proving a critical component in running clinical services smoothly. With the NHS expected to find £22bn in efficiency savings by 2021, every part of the hospital machinery needs to be well oiled. Hugh Freer, Sales Director of electric tug specialist MasterMover, looks at how improving porter efficiency can affect the entire hospital.

Spending 348 hours per year commuting to work, and average worker gets around a lot! This totals an equivalent of a quarter of the working week spent travelling from A to B with no direct value to either employee or employer. Similarly, many businesses find that moving products through the supply chain creates a lot of non-productive time. Andy Owen, Managing Director of electric tug specialist MasterMover, explains how businesses can improve efficiency and productivity.

After a 30% increase in growth in 2016, MasterMover, is recruiting a number of technical sales engineers. The internationally active company produces battery-powered, pedestrian-operated electric tugs to move loads safely and efficiently in some of the world’s largest organisations.

The MasterTug series has been extended by MasterMover, the range of motorised industrial tugs for the construction, manufacturing and heavy goods handling sectors, has been revamped to now include includes the MT30/2000+ PAS tow tug. This allows businesses to boost productivity and efficiency by allowing individual members of staff to transport larger parts and products from the production line without specialist training.

Signing a partnership agreement, UK electric tug specialist MasterMover, and Indian heavy engineering manufacturing company CARMAC Technologies, have agreed to CARMAC Technologies selling MasterMover’s range of electric tugs in India, following a sharp increase in sales leads from the country.

It is suggested that 71% of senior manufacturing executives have used some form of the just-in-time manufacturing method in their processes. Just-in-time (JIT) is a well-known concept in business and it doesn’t show any signs of declining soon. But how can businesses successfully manage a system based on just-in-time? Here, Andy Owen, Managing Director of electric tug specialist MasterMover, gives some advice.