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By Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 10/1/2004

Appointments/promotions:

Terry Orf joins PosiCharge as southeast region sales manager…Robert Karstulovich is appointed regional sales manager for Central Canada at Orion Packaging Systems Inc…. The Process Instruments division of Thermo Electron Corp. names Mike Jost president, weighing and inspection unit... Creative Storage Systems Inc. promotes Peggy Smith to new business development manager… FKI Logistex Warehouse and Distribution North America division promotes Chuck Waddle to executive vice president, sales and systems engineering; Ken Buzek to executive vice president, project management and installation; and Gary Cash to vice president, product management…Richard Hepperla is named senior vice president and general manager of low-voltage drives at ABB Inc…. Fortna Inc. appoints Jeremy Davidson to account executive…Bob Welsh is named northern regional sales manager at Magline Inc….Jeff Buchta is promoted to vice president of strategic accounts at WS Packaging Group.

Cadre Technologies and GlobeRanger partner to offer a voice-activated radio frequency identification supply chain solution…AML signs a global distributorship agreement with DataMAX Software Group Inc.... The Durham Manufacturing Co. acquires three product lines from Frick-Gallagher Manufacturing Co.... Smart Packaging signs an agreement with GlobeRanger to leverage GlobeRanger's iMotion Edgeware platform for radio frequency identification supply chain solutions development.