We've all been there, haven't we? At our grandmother's house, watching black-and-white movies on her floral couch? I have…except she called it a "davenport," which I never knew what that word actually meant until I was in my 20s and ...
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One of the ProMat Innovation Awards finalists, New Age Industrial (Booth 2341), showcased how its #99664 order picking cart can be used to improve picking and putaway efficiency in distribution centers by as much as 25% at a press ...
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To keep their line of NB mobile powered workstations up and running 24/7, Newcastle Systems (Booth 3859) introduced the new power swap system. Consisting of a battery mounted on swivel casters that can be swapped in and out of the ...
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The new Model 0202 OMD Optical Media Destroyer from Security Engineered Machinery (SEM) has the highest-rated throughput capacity of all such shredders evaluated and listed by the National Security Agency (NSA) 2,400 CDs or DVDs per hour. ...
Think you know everything there is to know about how materials handling makes the supply chain work? Not so, according to the folks conducting the 90-plus free educational sessions located in the ProMat 2013 Knowledge Center. The sessions ...
Tags: On Floor Seminars, material handling, logistics solutions
A recliner is an armchair or sofa that reclines when the occupant lowers the chair's back and raises its front. It has a backrest that can be tilted back, and often a footrest that may be extended by means of a lever on the side of the ...
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Wohl Associates has brought the new Quadrel ‘Moduline’ Front & Back Automatic Labeler, which caters to the labeling requirement from the companies that need front and back automatic labeler for packaging and branding purposes. ...
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SAN ANTONIO—I'm in San Antonio this week, home to the Alamo and the annual meeting of the Material Handling Industry of America. At today's meeting, Hal Vandiver, MHIA's long-time economist and president of F. Hal Vandiver & ...
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As a professional tattoo artist, Derek Edmonds can spend anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours with his clients creating unique and complicated designs. Initially, he was getting by with traditional chairs bought off the floor of office ...
Tags: custom designed chair, traditional chairs, UU series chairs
Faced with the problem of protecting high-value composite parts during in-plant handling and delivery operations, an aerospace manufacturer came to Creform Corp. in search of a solution. The manufacturer needed to protect these uniquely ...
Tags: in-plant handling and delivery operations, assembly points, bag carts
Steve Staedler, Dorner Manufacturing If something can break on a conveyor, Jeff Bonaparte has seen it . . . and repaired it. A maintenance technician at Sussex IM, a custom injection molding manufacturer for a variety of industries ...
Tags: Conveyors, rollers, modern-day conveyors
Mr Irving Rossi,founder of the Swiss company Concast,launched the technology on the market.For his achievements,he has now been awarded a place in the"Hall of Fame"of the American trade journal American Metal Market. In the past century ...
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put a new continuous casting plant into operation in August at the Taiwanese steelmaker Dragon Steel Co.The two-strand caster was installed at the Taichung,Taiwan location and is designed to produce approximately two million tons of ...
Tags: Siemens VAI Metals, casting plant, carbon and micro-alloyed steels
Ross has introduced the new Model CDA-30C Portable Dual Shaft Mixer with a working capacity of 10 to 30 gallons. An air/oil hydraulic lift raises and lowers the agitators, a 3HP Two-Wing Anchor and a 5HP high speed disperser. Because each ...
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Taiwan's Formosa Heavy Industries is having a new progress on its steelwork in Vung Ang, Vietnam. The firm has placed an order to the Austrian plant maker Siemens for the four continuous casting machines for its new plant in Vung Ang, ...
Tags: steelwork, Heavy Industry, casting machines