Strategic maneuver extends the Kennedy Group’s footprint to the Southeast and expands capacity and capabilities of both companies.

Get a new lease on lighting, lower your utility bills and polish your green bona-fides. Crescent/Stonco, a provider of industrial lighting solutions, is tapping into that convergence with something the company calls the Stonco Warehouse Energy Program.

Brown’s role is to move the growing department forward while addressing customers’ needs for quick response time and technical expertise.

Robotic materials handling is coming to the warehouse and distribution center.

Visualization - using graphical images on a screen - could be the next step forward in WMS technology, according to Tecsys and Next View Software.

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Modern spent the day with MVS Fulfillment, a New England 3PL, to see how small distributors are coping with the recession, off-shoring and customer service.

In an industry characterized by frequent model changes, product line consolidation and product reallocation between manufacturing facilities, a plant manager doesn’t want to be constrained by fixed production line processes. In fact, John Gardiner likes material handling to be as movable as possible.

Well, Andel’s back on handling. If you’d have told me when I was a kid that I’d spend the better portion of my adult life writing about handling, I’d have laughed in your face…or wet my pants. I hated handling.

On the heels of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the materials handling industry is starting to experience growth. In fact, John Nofsinger, CEO of the Material Handling Industry of America recently said, “Going into 2010, I anticipate progressive, continued, gradual growth. I do not expect to see the industry ramping up significantly into double digit growth in 2010, but growth is growth and up is up.”