Press Release

Ref: PRCSH88 Date: 25th January 2016

Rail Freight Services takes additional Sany reach stacker

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One of the country's leading rail service logistics providers has added another Sany laden container reach stacker to its fleet.

The machine was supplied to Rail Freight Services by Cooper Specialised Handling, the heavy lifting division of Cooper Handling Group and exclusive distributor of Sany heavy handling equipment in the UK.

Rail Freight Services, based in Harlow, Essex, has allocated the SRSC 4531 reach stacker to a new contract in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The Abingdon site is a rail head that receives trains from a power station in Yorkshire with containers laden with pulverised fuel ash (PFA). This cargo is then transferred locally and reprocessed into building materials.

A Sany reach stacker is already hard at work with Rail Freight Services. Cooper supplied the first machine to a similarly intense operation in South Wales.

Kevin Biddle, Operations Manager at Rail Freight Services, said: "Given our experience of both the Sany machine and the service Cooper provides, it was simply a natural choice for us to repeat a winning formula in Abingdon."

The reach stacker has been supplied with full maintenance support, which will be carried out by Cooper Handling's own highly experienced and ISO-accredited engineering team.

Chris Barnes, General Manager of Cooper Handling, commented "With the first Sany reach stacker being so well-received by Rail Freight Services, we are naturally delighted to be rewarded with our first repeat contract for this impressive machine."

The SRSC 4531 reach stacker is manufactured in Sany's new factory in northern Germany and most parts are sourced locally. Sany is understood to be one of only a handful of reach stacker manufacturers to fabricate its own chassis and booms. This is a key advantage, in that it enables Sany to maintain engineering quality ‘in-house'.

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Editor's Notes

Cooper Handling Group operates in all sectors of lifting and materials handling across the UK and Ireland. Cooper Specialised Handling is its heavy handling division and is the exclusive UK distributor for Sany equipment, sole importer and distributor for Mantsinen cranes and a specialist in Konecranes lift trucks. The company has a specialist aftersales division, Cooper Handling Solutions, while Cooper Materials Handling specialises in industrial forklift trucks and is the UK distributor for the Maximal brand.  Independently owned, Cooper offers total solutions for forklifts from 6 to 60 metric tonnes and a complete range of hydraulic cranes for solid and bulk handling. It provides high quality, high value products and reliable service to customers who operate in the toughest sectors across freight, ports, inter-modal terminals and other heavy lifting industries, together with a broad range of industrial materials handling applications from manufacturing to distribution.

Media contact:

Martine Layland

CHANGEWORKS Communications Limited
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Company contact:

Natasha Barnes

Business Development Manager

Cooper SH Limited
Holly Farm Business Park
Honiley
Kenilworth
Warwickshire
CV8 1NP
United Kingdom

Tel: 01926 658900
email:natasha@cooperhandling.com

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