Unipart Logistics wins five-year JCB contract

Unipart Logistics has won a five-year UK supply chain partner contract with JCB.

Under the deal Oxford-based Unipart will collaborate with Maersk, which has been appointed lead logistics provider for JCB’s global supply chain. It will take responsibility for the JCB World Logistics warehouse in Staffordshire together with UK in-plant operations, additional off-site UK warehouses and packer operations, a 30-vehicle transport fleet, and the implementation of a new warehouse management system.

Transense Technologies signs memorandum of understanding with Meggitt SA

Transense Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding with Meggitt SA to evaluate the use of the former’s surface acoustic wave technology. Meggitt SA designs and manufactures monitoring and measurement solutions for the aerospace and energy markets.

Under the agreement, Bicester-based Transense will support Meggitt’s evaluation of potential market opportunities for the use of its surface acoustic wave technology in the aerospace sector.

Transense chairman Nigel Rogers said: “We have developed close working relationships with Meggitt SA and have a shared vision of the many advantages that SAW technology offers to customers in this rapidly changing sector.”

Pierre-Alain Brodard, Acting SVP, Engine Sensing Meggitt, added, “Transense’s unique technology has the potential to become a great addition to our Engine Sensing portfolio.”

More than 400 employees will transfer to Unipart Logistics when the contract starts in early 2023.

They will support JCB’s ambitious growth and sustainability plans through the continuous improvement philosophy of The Unipart Way, driving digital transformation and supply chain excellence.

JCB is one of the largest privately-owned engineering and manufacturing companies in the UK, and the world’s third largest manufacturer of construction equipment.