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Distribution: HoMedics partners for success
While transfer cars and automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) are a common way to shuttle pallets between workstations in manufacturing plants, it's not every day you see them in a distribution center. But when HoMedics began to design a new, larger facility in 2007 the company looked for the most efficient and flexible combination of automation and conventional materials handling processes to manage the increase in shipments coming into the Port of Long Beach. More
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Materials handling: MHIA forecasts growth in materials handling equipment new orders in 2010
Industry experts say 3.5% growth is possible next year.MHPN Product of the Day: Smooth-roll grating
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Data cites a 3% increase in the number of global manufacturers shipping to the U.S from August to September compared to a 1% increase during the same timeframe in 2008.
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