Appointments/promotions: Diamond Phoenix promotes Robert Rienecke to vice president of sales and Greg Chaffee to vice president of the DirectPick systems division… LINPAC hires Lisa Cawley as marketing and customer service manager and Kimberly Stone as marketing associate… Thomas Berger is appointed northeast regional manager for Daifuku America Corporation's factory and distribution automation products… The Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA) elects the following officers: James Lamb, vice president of marketing and sales, Drives Inc., as president; Marc Jorgensen, president of Jorgensen Conveyors Inc., as vice president; Thomas Easterhouse, OPCO sales manager, Lubriquip Inc., as secretary; and Fred Thimmel, president, Bryant Products Inc., as treasurer… Flexlink hires Werner Heydlauf as vice president, sales and marketing and promotes Jeff Hockman to customer and field service manager for the Americas.

Alliances/construction: Matrics relocates its corporate headquarters to Rockville, Md…. RedPrairie and GlobeRanger announce an OEM agreement to integrate their RFID solutions… Xterprise Inc. also partners with RedPrairie to resell RedPrairie's RFID product suite… Psion Teklogix partners with AccuCode to resell RFID solutions and partners with Sirit Technologies to integrate Sirit's RFID reader with Psion's mobile data collection devices… Mecalux moves it offices to a new facility in Carrollton, Texas… Manhattan Associates and Matrics announce an alliance to accelerate adoption of RFID technology…Cornerstone Specialty Wood Products, LLC acquires the materials handling business segment of Johnson Doppler Lumber Company.