Topic: News

For the 17th consecutive year, the Material Handling Institute (MHI), the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA) and the Material Handling Education Foundation (MHEFI) will present Student Day at Modex 2020 on Wednesday, March 11.

Storage Battery Systems, LLC (SBS) has announced that it has canceled its participation at the MODEX 2020 expo in Atlanta, GA (March 9 – 12, 2020).

This strategic purchase by BlueGrace delivers significant refrigerated truckload capacity into its carrier network, and it opens a new employee growth opportunity in Birmingham, Alabama.

GNB Industrial Power (Booth 2814), a division of Exide Technologies, is revealing a new charger: the GNB Fury X-7.

During a live demo, FastFetch (Booth 8285) presented its latest patent-pending solution, the IntelliPack Shipping Cost Optimization System.

Frazier Industrial Company (Booth 8288) is demonstrating three new wire screen designs at Modex.

Signode (Booth 5223) demonstrated multiple end-of-line packaging solutions, including its Octopus Rotary Ring Wrapper.

At a press conference at Modex 2020, Knapp (Booth 5406) discussed its strong business growth over the last year, gave an overview of its latest products, and showed how a partnership with Covariant is helping it create AI-enabled robots for the fulfillment environment.

Sealed Air (Booth 8428) is displaying the Autobag 650 Horizontal Wide Bagging System, an automatic filling and sealing machine that can run up to 16-inch wide bags.

ORBIS Corp. (Booth 8419) is exhibiting a line of reusable packaging products that help organizations achieve supply chain sustainability.

The Raymond Corporation (Booth 7819) is exhibiting a portfolio of intelligent warehouse solutions to help customers determine the best path toward automation.

Fetch Robotics (Booth 9011), a leader in Cloud robotics, today announced a collaboration with Zebra Technologies Corporation, an innovator at the edge of the enterprise with solutions and partners that enable businesses to gain a performance edge, to optimize and automate warehouse picking processes through the integration of Fetch Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and Zebra FulfillmentEdge software.

Toshiba (Booth 7324) is launching its new rugged, portable FP2 bar code printer, which produces 2-inch receipts, tickets and labels for supply chain, logistics, materials handling and retail applications.

Vanderlande (Booth 8219) is demonstrating Evolutions, the next generation of scalable solutions built to meet the challenges of today's warehouses and DCs.

RightHand Robotics (Booth 9826) is exhibiting its RightPick2 autonomous robotic piece-picking platform, which handles the picking and placing of individual items as part of a range of warehouse workflows and processes.

At a Monday press conference, Harel Boren, CEO and co-founder of Inspekto (Booth 4080), discussed the impact of Autonomous Machine Vision (AMV), a new category of machine vision for quality assurance (QA).

In Monday morning’s keynote session, former United Nations (U.N.) Ambassador Nikki Haley emphasized the role state governments can take in energizing business growth through steps including educating the workforce and improving logistics infrastructure.

Due to recent developments related to COVID-19 coronavirus, Dematic (Booth 5619) has limited direct participation at Modex 2020.

Modex 2020’s exhibits represent all segments of the materials handling, logistics and transportation industry, from traditional, manual equipment to computerized, automated systems and smart, connected supply chain technologies.

Modex 2020 will be four days of non-stop solutions for your manufacturing and supply chain operations.