People and Companies

By Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 2/1/2001

Appointments/promotions: Richards-Wilcox, Inc. appointed Leticia DeLaFuente distribution manager of conveyor systems... Matt Miller was promoted to chief executive officer of Moai Technologies in addition to his current role as president and chief operating officer and Anne Perlman , former chief executive officer, will assume the new roles of executive chairman and chairman of the board...HK Systems Inc. appointed Paul Probst vice president, food and beverage center of excellence... Carlos Oliver was appointed president of Frazier Industrial Co...SCS Corp. named Jack LeVan president and chief executive officer, as well as a member of its board of directors...Zebra Technologies Corp. named John H. (Jack) Kindsvater senior vice president of business development... Dennis L. Larsen , currently John Deere's team leader for the redevelopment of material flow, has been elected president of the board of directors of APICS-The educational society for resource management...Drexel Industries LLC appointed Tom Berger to regional manager in the central region... Debbie Bishop joined AGV Products as marketing manager... Coit Edison was appointed president of Hyster Co... Frank Schafer accepted a new position as vice president, retail operations and marketing strategy of Nacco Materials Handling Group Marketing.

Acquisitions/new facilities: HighJump Software has moved into a new office and warehouse space due to rapid growth... LTS Scale Corp. has acquired Hydroscale Inc. to expand the LTS product line to include industrial crane sales ranging in capacities from 500 to 150,000 lb... Data Technology Integration Ltd. has changed its name to Radio Beacon Inc...Robotic Workspace Technologies Inc. moved into their new facility in Southwest Florida and opened branch offices in the Midwest and continues with a search for sales distributor partner in the U.S., east of the Rocky Mountains...Vanenburg Business Systems announced an international marketing agreement with Damgaard to distribute its Damgaard Axapta integrated enterprise resource planning and e-business software.