JBS USA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brazilian meat processor JBS, has opened a new distribution center at its beef processing facility in Grand Island, Nebraska, increasing its storage and product handling capabilities. The 83,000ft2 ...
Tags: Beef Facility, meat processor
This year has been a busy one for materials handling acquisitions. Earlier this month, Daifuku Webb purchased Wynright. Less noticed was the acquisition of Portec, a specialty manufacturer of belt curve conveyors, by Interroll that closed ...
Daifuku Webb Holding Company, a subsidiary of Daifuku Co., Ltd., and Wynright Corporation announced today that they have reached a definitive agreement for Daifuku Webb to acquire privately-owned Wynright. Under the agreement, Wynright ...
The Exchange; Waco, Texas Size: 650,000 square feet Products: General merchandise SKUs: 18,000 Throughput: Ships 25,000 cases per day Shifts: 2 shifts a day/5 days per week Employees: 400 A new conveyor and sortation system ...
The base Exchange store is both a perk and tradition of military life. Every day, millions of active duty and retired service personnel and their families shop at the Exchange for everything from candy bars to lawn mowers. Merchandise is ...
Ten years ago, most cell phones had single-color displays, and they were primarily used to make phone calls. Now glance at the phone in your pocket, think about its capabilities beyond dialing a number, and you will have some sense of the ...
Tags: Light-Directed Activities, Fulfillment, Processing Machinery
Wynright Corporation, a leading independent, U.S.-based provider of intelligent material handling systems, has announced the appointment of Joe Hutter to President, Engineering and Integration, for its Elk Grove Division. Hutter, a ...
Tags: Wynright, material handling systems, materials handling solutions
It’s Friday morning and another ProMat is behind us. My legs are shot. My back hurts. My spirits are pretty high. That’s because I think it was a successful show. The best of the industry was on display. You expect that at ...
Tags: ProMat, 2013, George Prest, CEO, MHI
Offered as a solution for vertical sorting, Qimarox / NEDPACK Vertical Conveyors (Booth 1050) featured the Prorunner mk5—a compact, flexible product elevator that was originally created to transport a container or box from one level ...
Tags: vertical sorting, Qimarox, elevator
SDI Group USA (Booth 3933) announced Tuesday at a press conference that it has changed its name from SDI Industries as part of a tighter branding under the SDI Group name worldwide. There are eight regions and 15 offices among the eight ...
Dematic (Booth 1203) introduced the next generation of its Multishuttle, a high-speed automated storage, retrieval and picking solution for cases, totes and trays. The system is part of Dematic’s overall solution set designed to ...
Next week, I’ll be in Chicago at ProMat 2013. Like most in our industry, I’m looking forward to seeing what’s new in the world of materials handling. Our course, the most efficient materials handling is no materials ...
Tags: 2013, materials handling, manufacturing
Among the nearly 800 exhibitors at ProMat are five companies making their debut at the event. Although trade shows in general have drawn lower attendance and exhibitor numbers over the past few years of the recession, many of these new ...
I spent Wednesday morning at Intelligrated’s new 122,000 square foot headquarters in Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati better known as the home of the Kings Island amusement park. Heck, you can see the tops of the roller coasters ...
Tags: automation, Cincinnati, Intelligrated
It’s a New Year’s tradition for anyone who writes for a living: use the first column of the year to look back at what just happened and try to make sense of what’s to come. Truth be told, it was probably a way for writers ...
Tags: Automation, New Year, car industry, promoption