When I was a kid, my Dad often told me I could work hard or I could work smart. Truth be told, that lesson was sometimes slow to sink in. But it's one the end users of materials handling systems appear to be taking to heart as they are ...
Tags: Processing Machinery, Materials
Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America, a leading manufacturer of forklifts under the Cat lift trucks, Mitsubishi forklift trucks and Jungheinrich brands, announced today that it will open its first South American-based parts warehouse in ...
Jep and Jessica Robertson of the hit A&E TV series Duck Dynasty will be in Norman, Okla., on Saturday, Aug. 31, when the Oklahoma Sooners take the football field for their 2013 season opener against Louisiana-Monroe. The opening game is ...
Plug Power, a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions, has announced that Mercedes-Benz US International has ordered 123 additional hydrogen-based GenDrive fuel cell units to power new forklift trucks for its material handling ...
Tags: Plug Power, Processing Machinery, Industrial Equipment
It's easy to understand why lift truck fleets can be difficult to optimize. A large operation may have dozens of trucks serving multiple parts of a warehouse or distribution center, all of which may be driven by different operators on ...
Tags: truck, Lift Trucks, Transportation
The dust has settled. Following two years of very strong growth in lift truck sales, shipments leveled off in 2012. With growth at just a fraction of a percent, worldwide sales didn't match the 27% growth in 2011 or the 32% growth in 2010. ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
If you've spent any time in the materials handling industry, it's hard not to fall in love with automation. Still, some great ideas are so simple, yet so effective, that in retrospect you wonder: Why didn't I think of that? The order ...
Tags: Logistics, Transportation
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 ...
A carpenter can only do so much with a broken hammer. Then again, if he has an endless supply of hammers, or a dedicated hammer repairman nearby, he might not be too bothered to care for them. Lift trucks, as critical to a distribution ...
Crown Equipment, one of the world's largest material handling companies, today announced the opening of Crown's Technology and Training Center at the University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH). The center, which is fully outfitted with Crown ...
BMW Manufacturing’s plant in Spartanburg, S.C., has more than doubled its fleet of material handling equipment using hydrogen fueling systems provided by Linde North America. The 4 million square-foot production facility now uses ...
Plug Power, a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions, has announced it will deploy a fleet f 65 GenDrive fuel cell units for customer, Ace Hardware Corporation. The power units will be used at Ace Hardware’s newest ...
Tags: Plug Power, energy solutions, Fuel
Replacing older, less efficient lift trucks at the right time can reduce your maintenance costs, improve your productivity and, most importantly, save money and maximize your return on investment. As a result, your profitability goes up. In ...
Yale Materials Handling Corporation has located the oldest known operational Yale lift truck in the United States at J.A. Cunningham Equipment Inc. in York, Penn. The lift truck was manufactured in 1945. “The fact that this lift ...
Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA), a leading manufacturer of forklifts under the Cat lift trucks, Mitsubishi forklift trucks and Jungheinrich brands, recently broke ground to begin the expansion of its Houston-headquarters ...
Tags: MCFA, forklifts, Cat lift trucks