Appointments/promotions: Robert Mehalick is national distributor sales manager, WAGO Corp....Cascade Corp. appoints Jeff Nickoloff to vice president, corporate manufacturing...Presto Lifts, Inc. names Steve Albert general manager and Jason Burns sales manager...Logistics Management Solutions hires Jeff Brasier as a supply chain analyst...Illinois Material Handling promotes Ron Whaley to parts manager at its Elgin facility...Printronix names Andrei Hall senior vice president of sales and marketing...

Manhattan Associates appoints Eric Peters to senior vice president of marketing and alliances...Hy-Tek Material Handling, Inc. hires Tom Mann, Donnie Johnson, and Mark Bruner to spearhead its Integrated Systems Div....Delfour Corp. appoints John Harris to executive vice president, sales and marketing... Shuttleworth, Inc. promotes John Shuttleworth to vice president, customer services, North America...WhereNet Corp. appoints Mark Irvine to vice president of worldwide sales and field operations...Hyster MidEast names Tom Wendel customer development manager for the Cincinnati Branch...LIS, Inc. appoints Martin Hiscox CEO...SupplyPro Inc. promotes Terrance O'Hara to president and COO...The Material Handling Institute announces the winners of this year's technical paper competition of NA 2002 presentations: Howard Zollinger, Zollinger Associates, 1st place, Don Delash, Accu-Sort Systems, Inc., 2nd place, and Walt Swietlik, Rite-Hite Corp, 3rd place.

Alliances/new facilities: Alvey Systems, Inc. and Intek Integration Technologies, Inc. expand their existing strategic alliance to support innovative material flow solutions...Optiant, Inc. opens new sales offices in Chicago and Los Angeles...Vocollect names Taylor Systems Engineering Corp. a provider and distributor...Matrics, Inc. has joined the Auto-ID Center to support research into new and emerging identification and tracking technologies...SATO America, Inc. adds Optimal Systems Services, a div. of Optimal Robotics, as a nationwide service provider for its printers...The DoALL Co. has become the sole North American agent for Friedrich Remmert GmbH of Lohne, Germany, provider of automatic bar/sheet storage and retrieval systems.