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By Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 8/1/2006

Ronald Belhasen joined Celerity Automation as plant manager…Supply chain execution software company ClearOrbit promoted John Reece to chief executive officer…Intelligrated promoted Bryan Jones to vice president, corporate controller…Luc Vanderstappen joined Michelman as a senior account manager…Rapid Rack Industries promoted Kirk Brimhall to general manager of consumer products…Toyota Material Handling made several appointments: Hugh Quinnell as national manager, major account parts and service operations; Michael Gunn as national information technology manager; Bruce Marti as national manager, parts and service field operations and customer service support; Jewell Brown as manager of customer satisfaction; and David Pearlman as manager of the STARLIFT all-makes competitive parts program… Weber Marking Systems named Rich Russert national sales director.

FKI Logistex is consolidating some of its North American manufacturing and engineering locations within its Airport, Post and Parcel division: manufacturing in the company's Frederick, Md., factory will be transferred to facilities in Danville, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio; engineering and support functions located in Dallas will move to Louisville, Ky…Granville now distributes German-made Craemer plastic pallets…Readers and tags from Omron RFID are now available on www.RFIDSupplyChain.com...Owens & Minor signed an agreement to acquire some assets of the acute-care medical and surgical supply distribution business of McKesson Medical-Surgical…ProtecPac acquired German packaging company TAP Telion-Air-Pac… RFIDSupplyChain.com has been redesigned and now offers do-it-yourself RFID solution kits…Weber Distribution acquired TaB Warehouse & Distribution Company.