AMHSA AGM & Members’ Meeting Social Event – Tuesday 21st April 2026
The AMHSA AGM & Members’ Meeting took place on Wednesday 22nd April 2026.
22 members came together to enjoy a relaxed an informal dinner and the usual fun activity that absolutely broke the ice and put everybody at ease.
Many thanks to everybody who elected to be part of a fun evening allowing social networking in a casual environment over dinner and a few beverages.
We hope you enjoyed yourselves and made some new contacts.
AMHSA AGM & Members’ Meeting – Wednesday 22nd April 2026
Over 50 AMHSA member representatives came together on Wednesday 22nd April 2026 for the AGM & Members’ Meeting. Kicking off at 09:30 hours and including the usual agenda items, the formality was followed by a Members’ Meeting to discuss association matters and news from around the industry including guest speaker presentations.
The meeting was punctuated with generous breaks allowing the all important and benefit of networking opportunities, where members made new introductions with some familiar face and new contacts and cemented professional relationships.
We hoped you enjoyed our delve into the new areas of Humanoid Robotics and AI within our industry and that this has given you plenty to think about in the coming weeks.
We hope you are able to join us as many more events throughout the remainder of our calendar this year.
AMHSA Training – AMH Training 25th February 2026
AMHSA, the UK’s leading authority on material handling automation, hosted their extremely popular training event – Automated Material Handling (AMH) event on the 25th February.
This event remains one of the most popular events in the AMHSA calendar and is recommended to all newcomers to the industry or those with wider experiences and specialisms in their own areas of expertise. The event is also beneficial for Project Managers, Warehouse Managers or Distribution and supply chain Directors of SME’s, considering the adoption of automation processes into their warehousing and distribution facilities.
This event offers a comprehensive awareness of the products available, for designers and engineers, which position and maintain our industry as innovative and ground-breaking, delivering cost effective alternative solutions for your automated supply chain.
From totes to pallets, cartons to hangers, trucks to AGV’s, Cranes to Shuttles and much more besides delegates heard how, through effective planning and use of the full array of the automation products and services arsenal, the modern supply chain is capable and able to react to the ever changing – consumer demands!
The day featured a series of short succinct informative presentations from Dave Berridge, AMHSA Secretary and industry specialist with over 35 years experience, who introduced, informed and updated delegates on a wide and varied array of automation topics.
The event proved highly successful scoring an average of 4.8 / 5.0 for overall satisfaction.
AMHSA Standards Pillar – Engineering Standards Forum 5th February 2026
On Tuesday 5th February the AMHSA Standards (formerly Quality) pillar will hosted the inaugural regenerated Engineering Standards Forum at Harborough Innovation Centre, AMHSA HQ
The session was aimed to share knowledge and best practice and discuss issues that affect products, equipment and services provided by our members, to market, whilst navigating all the impacts that political, environmental, legal and technological factors impose.
The initial meeting proved successful with 11 members attending and making representations and contributing to the future approach of the association’s direction towards industry standards.
The group formalised an agenda for future meetings and will progress accordingly to ensure that common approaches of members interests are represented at appropriate levels and committees.
Members seeking to join this group or further information should contact Matt Jones.
AMHSA Conference & Members’ Meeting Social Event – 2nd December 2025
On Tuesday 2nd December several of the AMHSA Members enjoyed a relax and catch up with some old contacts and some new faces from around the industry. Thank you to everybody that attended this meeting it was great to see you all. Our quiz was a raging success as ever and everybody who attended commented on how positive these events are.
