Press Releases from Rhys Davies Freight Logistics (25 total)
Shipping dangerous goods all in a day’s work for Rhys Davies
Shipping hazardous gases around the world for one of Europe’s largest suppliers of refrigerant gases Harp International is no easy task, but with over 20 years’ experience it’s all in a day’s work for freight forwarding specialist Rhys Davies. Harp now exports to countries throughout the world supplying refrigerants to manufacturers of domestic appliances, air conditioning equipment and the automotive industry.
A range of refrigerant gases designed for specific applications…
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics Signs Contract to Deliver Carpets for Top Manufact …
Transport specialist Rhys Davies Freight Logistics has signed a contract with leading manufacturer Milliken Industrials Limited to deliver carpet tiles and carpets throughout the UK. Milliken manufactures a wide range of flooring products for industrial use from its advanced manufacturing facility in Wigan north-west England.
Rhys Davies’ flexible approach to business was a key reason for Milliken’s decision to appoint the Cardiff-based company as its logistics partner. Milliken supplies carpet…
Rhys Davies Delivers for World’s Leading Ayurvedic Natural Healthcare Products …
World leading healthcare and natural personal care products manufacturer Dabur International is using transport specialist Rhys Davies Freight Logistics to provide comprehensive daily delivery services to major mainstream and independent retailers and wholesalers throughout the UK and Europe.
Dabur International is the world’s foremost marketer of Ayurvedic and natural products. The 128-year-old company produces over a 1,000 lines including oral, skin and hair care products as well as exotic herbs and…
Esselte Appoints Rhys Davies as Logistics Partner for the UK
Esselte, one of the worlds leading manufacturers of office products, has appointed transport specialist Rhys Davies Freight Logistics to deliver its products to wholesale customers and dealers throughout the UK and Ireland. Rhys Davies won the contract in the face of stiff competition from four other companies approached by Esselte to tender for the work.
Adrian Cuzner, Esselte’s Director of Customer Service Development explained why RDFL had been successful. “We approached…
Rhys Davies provides nationwide next-day delivery for top flooring manufacturer
Kenton Floors Ltd, manufacturer of the premium wooden flooring range Woodpecker®, is using transport specialist Rhys Davies Freight Logistics to deliver its products to customers across the United Kingdom. RDFL carry out daily collections from Kenton’s factory in Caerphilly, South Wales for next-day delivery to appointed retailers, carpet suppliers, and professional flooring installers. Orders placed online by Kenton before 3.00 pm are collected that day.
One of the key reasons…
Rhys Davies delivers the goods for America’s largest thermal paper manufacture …
Logistics specialist Rhys Davies Freight Logistics is providing America’s largest manufacturer of thermal and security paper with UK warehousing and daily delivery services across the country.
Appleton Papers, based in Wisconsin USA manufactures paper used for point-of-sale receipts, entertainment and transportation tickets, lottery and gaming tickets, security labels, cheques, official documents and other applications that incorporate security technologies such as embedded threads and watermarks. They are used by some…
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics Teams up with Seda UK to Deliver Food Packaging to …
Transport specialist Rhys Davies Freight Logistics has joined forces with leading food packaging manufacturer Seda UK Ltd to carry out daily deliveries to hundreds of local distribution points across the United Kingdom from its factory in Blackwood, Gwent. Seda UK is part of Italian based Seda International Packaging Group and specialises in producing recyclable packaging materials to top food outlets including McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut.
Seda UK appointed RDFL…
Tough times in the carpet industry boost the trend for outsourced distribution
Tough trading conditions in the carpet retail trade are causing manufacturers to look carefully at their distribution networks and many are choosing to outsource deliveries rather than using their own transport fleets. Rising transport costs and depressed carpet sales mean that for many manufacturers running their own transport fleet no longer makes economic sense.
However, the decision to outsource distribution to a third party is not without its dangers and handing…
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics Opens New Depot in North East England
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics (RDFL) has announced the opening of its new depot in North East England. The new site in Newton Aycliffe is ideally located being only 20 miles from the industrial centre of Middlesbrough and close to the A1M motorway. This brings the total number of RDFL depots in the UK to nine.
RDFL is now ideally placed to provide a nationwide next-day delivery service for customers in the…
Rhys Davies: Oiling the wheels for Castrol
Rhys Davies is providing a round-the-clock delivery service for Castrol supplying lubricants to retail establishments, factories and ships in harbours throughout the UK.
The new contract requires Rhys Davies to collect and deliver up to ten trailers a day carrying around 350 pallets of lubricants for up to 150 delivery points. All collections are from the Castrol distribution centre in Doncaster, carrying packed lubricants from small kegs to Intermediate Bulk Containers…
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics Delivering the Goods for Azelis UK Life Sciences
During the past 40 years S. Black Ltd. has grown to become the UK’s leading specialist in the marketing of ingredients and the provision of technical support for manufacturers of life science products. Now part of the Azelis Group and renamed Azelis UK Life Sciences the company is responsible for the supply of ingredients for the personal care, food and pharmaceutical industries in the UK.
Transport specialist Rhys Davies Freight Logistics…
Rhys Davies Carpet Logistics Expands Specialist Fleet to Meet Increased Demand
Rhys Davies Carpet Logistics is expanding its fleet with the purchase of specialist double-doored carpet trailers following the acquisition of a number of new contracts from major customers to deliver carpets across the UK. The double-doored trailers are fitted with a set of doors at either end allowing Rhys Davies to load and unload more effectively, which will be particularly useful on their night trunking operations.
Rhys Davies has developed an…
“Specialist training for drivers carrying hazardous goods is essential,” say …
Everyday, huge amounts of hazardous goods are transported across the country for delivery to their end-users. However, according to Rhys Davies Freight Logistics not all companies recognize the need for specialist driver training and may be unaware of the complex regulations involved in transporting hazardous material.
“Specialist training for drivers carrying hazardous goods is essential,” says Gary Phillips, Rhys Davies’s Commercial Manager. “Our customers demand the highest standards, but some don’t…
Tachograph Magnets Jeopardising Safety and Business, says Rhys Davies Freight Lo …
An announcement by the Central Motorway Police Group that 30% of non-UK registered trucks checked on the midlands motorways were using magnets to corrupt tachograph information and falsify driving records has prompted an angry response from Rhys Davies Freight Logistics’ Commercial Manager, Gary Phillips.
Digital tachographs were introduced in the UK during 2006 in a bid to prevent tampering. However, it has been found that a simple magnet…
Government must take action now on foreign trucks using oversize fuel tanks, say …
Transport company Rhys Davies Freight Logistics says the government must take action now to stop foreign operators continuing to gain an unfair advantage by using cheap European diesel carried in huge retro fitted fuel tanks.
The issue of foreign lorries using oversize fuel tanks is not a new one but the hefty increase in diesel prices caused by the extra duty imposed by the government will make it even more…
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics Joins Forces with Speciality Chemicals and Food/Ph …
Distributor of speciality chemicals and food / pharma ingredients to industry, IMCD UK, has joined forces with logistics specialist Rhys Davies Freight Logistics to deliver its diverse range of products to customers throughout the United Kingdom.
The national logistics company has worked closely with IMCD UK to develop a transport system to ensure a reliable next-day delivery service of both hazardous and non-hazardous materials across the country.
Ian Donovan, HSEQ and…
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics helps save local cancer charity £10,000
Cardiff-based Rhys Davies Freight Logistics has saved a local charity £10,000 by allowing it to park its Mobile Cancer Support Unit at their premises in Taffs Well.
Tenovus, the local cancer charity which aims to prevent, treat and help cancer patients, was in need of somewhere to park its Mobile Cancer Support Unit over night when it was not being used. Rhys Davies offered the charity the perfect solution, allowing it…
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics offers clients value added services
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics offers a uniquely tailored warehousing, distribution and handling service across its eight operating centres across the UK. Here we reveal why Rhys Davies’ service extends to more than just transport, providing its customers with value added, cost saving services allowing them to offer a more efficient and reliable service to their end-point customers.
Industry specific services
With clients operating in industries ranging from healthcare products to hazardous chemicals,…
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics provides Water Treatment Products Ltd with next da …
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics, the national logistics provider, utilises its Cardiff depot to provide Water Treatment Products with country-wide distribution, allowing the company to ship its products on a next-day delivery basis to a wide range of industrial delivery points.
Water Treatment Products formulate and manufacture speciality water treatment chemicals for a wide range of companies and applications. Rhys Davies stores these chemicals in its warehouse in Cardiff, before loading…
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics: built of steel
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics has become a specialist within the steel industry, handling and transporting coated steel, corrugated steel, warehouse cladding, lintels and profiles for numerous companies across the country; no mean feat considering the size, shape and weight of many of these products. Doing so requires careful handling and planning but, as with any product the company transports, Rhys Davies goes that extra mile to make sure not only…
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics provides Associated Weavers with specialised servi …
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics has provided Belgium-based Associated Weavers with British holdings and a reliable distribution network after the delivery company it was previously using went into receivership.
With the danger of being left with no distribution network for its products in the UK, Associated Weavers was given little option but to temporarily buy the former delivery company to ensure that its UK orders were still distributed. However, this was far…
Rhys Davies supply Scottish based Ingram Brothers with distribution they can tru …
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics has enabled Scotland-based Ingram Brothers to streamline its distribution, reduce damage to cargo and guarantee next day delivery to its customers by collecting and distributing its products across the United Kingdom.
Rhys Davies’ collection and delivery system has helped Ingram Brothers, manufacturer of ingredients for the baking industry, to service customers efficiently without the inclusion of a third-party. Rhys Davies collects the product from Ingram’s warehouse in…
Rhys Davies helps Weiss HCW & Co GmbH to crack the UK market offering overnight …
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics has been helping Weiss HCW & Co GmbH break into the British flooring market by distributing its quality flooring throughout the UK from Rhys Davies’ Haydock warehouse.
Weiss HCW & Co GmbH, Austrian flooring manufacturer, turned to Rhys Davies after the company decided to expand its market reach to tackle the UK market. Sandy Anderson, Sales Manager of Weiss HCW & Co GmbH said that distributing the…
Rhys Davies helps Weiss HCW & Co GmbH to crack the UK market offering overnight …
Rhys Davies Freight Logistics has been helping Weiss HCW & Co GmbH break into the British flooring market by distributing its quality flooring throughout the UK from Rhys Davies’ Haydock warehouse.
Weiss HCW & Co GmbH, Austrian flooring manufacturer, turned to Rhys Davies after the company decided to expand its market reach to tackle the UK market. Sandy Anderson, Sales Manager of Weiss HCW & Co GmbH said that distributing the…
Rhys Davies – making reliably timed deliveries
Being able to guarantee time of delivery is, in some cases, a logistics company’s strongest selling tool. Failing to meet these deadlines, whether it be due to adverse weather conditions, traffic or any other unforeseen circumstance can be disastrous, both to the logistics company and the customer receiving the delivery. Here Gary Phillips, Commercial Manager of Rhys Davies Freight Logistics, talks about how they beat the jams that can affect…
