Greenstar, Ireland’s leading provider of environmental, waste management and recycling solutions invests €200,000 in a new handheld mobile system from Heavey RF eliminating paperwork in 100 vehicles across eight sites nationwide and providing real time information to customers.

Manufacturers and distributors are looking to reduce costs and boost productivity to help counter the economic downturn. One route is the introduction of new technology.

Heavey RF wins two partner awards at the Vocollect International Annual Reseller Summit in Nice, France.

Glanbia plc, the leading international cheese and nutritional ingredients group, has implemented a logistics solution comprising of voice directed and handheld computers from Dublin based IT company Heavey RF in four of its Irish divisions. The new system has shown a significant increase in productivity while bringing accuracy up close to 100%. The deal worth seven figures was fully completed in March 2009.

Thermodial the Irish specialists in the maintenance of air-conditioning, heating and electrical systems invests €100,000 with Heavey RF involving the supply of Psion Teklogix Workabout Pro G2 handheld computers to engineers and the sales team. The handheld computers link in with Thermodial’s call management system.