Appointments/promotions: Peter Kerrick is appointed vice president of Bushman Equipment Inc.... Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) announces Robert Shaunnessey as executive director... USCO Logistics promotes Douglas Brown to vice president of operations administration... Steve Hunt is promoted to vice president of project management for Intelligrated... AIM Global names Dan Mullen as president and appoints Tom Miller, executive vice president of Intermec Technologies Corp., to chairman of the board of directors... Patrick Carney is named sales manager for Kastalon... White Systems of FKI Logistex appoints Richard Lanpheare and Daniel VanHooser as regional sales managers... Forte Industries hires Chris Barnes and Rob Ulery as directors of business development and names Rodger Roeser to marketing director... Hideaki Ninomiya is named president of Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc.

Alliances/construction: The Material Handling Education Foundation Inc. (MHEFI) establishes a scholarship program in honor of Robert Reisinger... Colson Caster Corp. acquires The Jarvis Group... LXE joins the international consortium Smart and Secure Tradelanes... AIM Inc. moves its headquarters to Warrendale, Pa.... NCR Corp. and Matrics Inc. partner to provide consulting and support services for retailers deploying radio frequency identification (RFID) technology... SAMSys Technologies Inc. forms a partnership with SATO America to manufacture radio frequency identification (RFID) readers for SATO's RFID-enabled printers.