Appointments/promotions: Bob Kennedy is named chief executive officer of 7Hills Global Systems... Ken Bobick is appointed as the global product manager of Interroll's DC-powered roller drives... Larry Mulkey joins the board of directors at Cardinal Logistics Management Inc.... The Material Handling Education Foundation awards Robert Graves, Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Reed-Apple award... Ewout Cassee is named president of Vanderlande Industries USA... Mark Buffer is promoted to partner of Tompkins Associates... Susan Heystee leads the new global sales and delivery organization of Baan as executive vice president... Reusable Pallet and Container Coalition (RPCC) announces the following board members: Ken Smith of Georgia Pacific as president, Bob Spence of CHEP as vice president, Norm Stipp of Arca Systems as secretary and treasurer, James Dobell of Linpac Materials Handling as immediate past president and David Russell (IFCO Systems), Alan Wasserman (Orbis Corp.), and Patrick Cotter (Worthington SteelPac) as directors... G-Log appoints Chris van der Harst managing director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions... Carter J. Kerk is selected by American Society of Safety Engineers to serve on the National Advisory Committee on Ergonomics of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Alliances/new facilities: Cambar Software Inc. is acquired by Supply Chain Holdings LLC... The College and Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CIC-MHE) is presented the Norman L. Cahners award for 2002 by the Material Handling Education Foundation... Kewill Systems and ReturnCentral partner to offer a web-enabled parcel shipping and returns processing solution... SAMSys signs a value-added reseller agreement with VeriCode to integrate radio frequency identification readers with pallet and carton track solutions... MENASHA Packaging Company LLC acquires Triangle Container Corporation...TEKLYNX International partners with Owens Direct to integrate shipping labels into a web-based electronic data interchange subscription service.