Appointments/promotions: Marceline Absil has been promoted to vice president, sales and marketing at Inther Integrated Solutions… SATO Corp. announces the appointment of Phil Koch as marketing manager… Associated Material Handling Industries, Inc. announces that Michael B. Romano has become its majority shareholder and president… LINPAC Materials Handling announces new positions: Jason LaRoy, senior manufacturing project engineer; Brigitte Mader, account representative; Patrick M. Huesing, sales manager; and Eric A. Miller will serve LINPAC's customers nationwide in the beverage manufacturing and distribution industries… Precision Industries promotes Chris Circo to president and chief operating officer and Chuck Strader to executive vice president and chief financial and administrative officer… Techsolve announces the hiring of several employees: Thomas E. Ades, senior project manager; George Biggs, senior project manager; Dr. Kenneth F. Bloemer, program development director; Michael Giuliano senior project manager; Dr. Samir Khrais, ME, machining engineer; Dr. Xiqun Wang, machining engineer; Bruce Werner, senior project manager…Christer Harkonen is appointed senior vice president, UPM Rafsec… RedPrairie Corp. announces the appointment of Jeff Liesendahl, chief financial officer… Shuttleworth, Inc. announces the promotion of Bryan Danielas director of sales and marketing and of Chris Parke as senior vice president.

Company mergers/new facilities:Printronix announces a joint partnership with RedPrairie to provide radio frequency identification (RFID) hardware and expertise to European companies…HighJump Software LLC and Deloitte Consulting LLP announce a strategic alliance to offer comprehensive supply chain execution solutions to the global marketplace…Kuka Robotics Corp. has merged with Kuka Development Laboratories, Inc., providing enhanced engineering services…Cartonplast LLC and Orbis Corp. announces they have formed a joint venture, creating CORBI Plastics LLC… Brown Gibbons Lang & Companyannounces the sale Syron Engineering & Manufacturing, LLC to IMI plc…ESYNC has been selected by Malt-O-Meal to continue as a consulting partner for the definition, design and implementation of several supply chain execution projects…Hanson Cold Storage has announced that the company is changing its name to Hanson Logistics…Cube Routeannounces that it will add support for the Intermec 700 series mobile computer to its on demand logistics service.