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CKF have recently designed, installed and commissioned an extensive new case feed and palletising system for Laithwaites wine, an established, thriving ecommerce and retail business based in Gloucester. The new system enabled Laithwaites to handle a 50%...

In the 3 March 2021 Budget, the Government announced new temporary tax reliefs on qualifying capital asset investments from 1 April 2021. This measure will temporarily introduce increased reliefs for expenditure on plant and machinery. For qualifying expenditures...

CKF recently installed two robot cells into the production line of a world-leading sweet manufacturer to handle and mix a variety of loose jelly and gum sweets. The solution has the flexibility to handle a variety of oiled, sugared and starched confectionery. Using an...

CKF Systems Ltd has been the subject of a mutually agreed management buyout which completed at the end of 2020. The management team have bought CKF Systems Ltd from the co-owners Bryan Wheeler and Paul Swift. Bryan, CKF’s founder and previous Managing Director, has...

The pandemic has drastically changed consumer behaviour and has sped up what was already an upward trajectory for the adoption of online purchasing and digitalisation. In order to thrive, businesses need to ensure continuity of supply, the ability to implement remote...

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our customers and partners our Season’s best wishes and share our hopes for a very happy and prosperous 2021 for you all. Our offices will be closed from the 24th December until the 4th January and we look forward...

CKF were recently commissioned to produce a pallet de-topping and re-palletising system for one of our global confectionery manufacturer customers. They regularly received pallets that were too high for their racking so they had to manually remove layers of product...

CKF Systems have recently welcomed Richard Quinton to the engineering team as Project Engineer. Richard joins the team after almost 20 years at Matcon Ltd, an engineering company that has been a long-standing CKF customer. During his time at Matcon he progressed from...