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UK automated systems supplier and licensee of Translift's electric monorail components and systems is now Excel Automation UK.

Since Digitron-Translift withdrew, the UK automated systems supplier and licensee of Translift's electric monorail components and systems (EMS), Excel Automation UK, is now licensed with TL-Systems, Swiss Holding company of the Translift group.

The agreement allows Excel and its subsidiaries to utilise, exclusively within the UK, the Translift trademark, intellectual property and EMS product range of the Licensor.

Excel has since established Translift Systems as a separate subsidiary.

Translift Systems will have no direct involvement in completing existing Digitron Translift projects and no responsibility for warranting completed projects.

Former customers of Digitron-Translift will be able to obtain ongoing support, spare parts, modifications and/or extensions to existing projects through Translift Systems.

General manager of Excel Automation and Translift Systems, Gary Sweeney, said: "We believe the arrangement with TL-Systems AG is a major step forward for Excel.

The Translift name is synonymous with EMS and the technology will dovetail neatly with the other products in our extensive range of materials handling solutions".

Director of TL-Systems AG, Viktor Blaser, saw the new partnership as an opportunity to re-launch Translift technology in the UK, and to build on its already substantial reputation in the industry.