Materials handling company news-- April 2009
By Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 4/1/2009
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO) has opened its largest North American distribution center in Jacksonville, Fla., which will supply tires and automotive parts to Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina and supply the U.S. with tires produced in Latin America, Japan and other Asian countries… Diamond Phoenix has opened a new office in Sydney that will offer system design and integration, advanced warehouse software and a full suite of materials handling equipment focused on reducing their customers cost of doing business... Hillsdale Furniture has opened a 300,000-square-foot DC in Louisville, Ky., that is geared to ship products to all 50 states; it's equipped with 50 dock doors and can hold $10 to $12 million in inventory… Nestlé has begun operations in the first phase of its $359 million, 880,000-square-foot production and DC in Anderson, Ind., that will produce Nestlé Nesquik Ready-to-Drink and Coffee-mate liquid. The second phase, which will cost $170 million, is scheduled to open in 2011… Vanderlande Industries opened its new Louisville, Ky., Customer Center, which will serve the parcel and postal industry throughout North America… viastore systems has completed a two-phase project with CafePress.com in Grand Rapids, Mich., which includes the development of a system to address product flow paths and underutilized space in the facility and increased capacity by using the facility's vertical space more effectively… W&H Systems has recently opened a new regional sales office in Chicago…
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