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Comprehensive information on conveyance and sortation in Materials Handling covering belt conveyors, gravity conveyors, and popup wheel sortation.


Trew showcases high-throughput modular sortation TrewSort line sorter
Trew LLC (Booth B9632) announced the latest in high-throughput, high-accuracy sortation for retail and e-commerce fulfillment operations.

Coesia acquires AMC, LLC
Plant-focused supplier of material handling automation systems joins Coesia's FlexLink company.

Power Transmission: From horseback to rocket ship
For motors, gears and gearboxes, it’s all about building on what you’ve got in place today. Yes, you can do better, and you will.

Henry Puhl to become the new CEO of TGW Logistics
Puhl will take over as CEO from February 2024, succeeding Harald Schröpf, who has led TGW Logistics as CEO for the past six years and has been instrumental in the company's growth and success.

Regal Rexnord to sell its Industrial Motors & Generators businesses to WEG
Sale for total consideration of $400 million seen as win/win, with Regal Rexnord focusing on a broad range of products and subsystems for automation including motion control for conveyors.

Analyst study: parcel sortation market to top $4 billion by 2030
Global parcel sortation system market growing at a 7.1% CAGR from 2022 to 2030, finds report from The Insight Partners.

Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association releases semi-annual statistics
CEMA estimates overall industry orders (bookings) for January through June 2023 increased 1% versus same period in 2022, though shipments down 0.5%.

Conveying Strategies for Robotic Applications: How to Maximize Throughput
This webinar will discuss the recent development of embedding motion-control technology into conveyors to enable packages to be correctly presented to a robot so that throughput of the manual task that the robot has been assigned to perform is maximized.

Kardex Solutions and Tompkins Robotics enter partnership
Kardex Solutions can offer its AutoStore solution paired with an adjacent Tompkins Robotics tSort solution to drive further efficiencies and a faster ROI for the ASRS solution.

Motion & Control Enterprises acquires Ultimation Industries
Ultimation Industries is a leading direct-to-consumer conveyor manufacturer serving the automotive, food processing, vertical farming, heavy equipment, warehousing, fulfillment and delivery industries. The company offers a line of proprietary automation systems and is also the largest integrator of Jervis Webb Conveyor Systems.

Ryson’s rebrand reflects alignment as part of Royal Apollo Group
Provider of spiral conveyor systems, emphasizes twist-look of its vertical conveying, strength as member of global group, in corporate image makeover

E-book: Optimize Your E-commerce Throughput
Need to keep up with e-commerce throughput? This e-book can help you choose the right solution for your business. Learn more about what Honeywell has to offer and find the sortation system that best fits your needs.

ABB completes acquisition of Siemens low voltage NEMA motor business
The line of horizontal and vertical induction severe duty and general purpose motors will be re-branded as ABB and reintroduced to the market during second quarter of 2023.

Douglas Manufacturing acquired by Rulmeca Group
Douglas, a leading supplier of conveyor components, joins global group offering conveyor elements. Paul Ross will remain president of Douglas, and the current management team will stay in place and ensure the continued growth of the company.

Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA) reports increased industry orders for 2022
CEMA says orders during 2022 increased 9.0% compared to 2021, and forecasts similar increase for 2023

ProMat 2023 – The Chinese are coming
At this year's ProMat, Modern met with three of the more than two dozen Chinese solution providers in Chicago to learn what they’re bringing to the U.S. market

Going to town with fulfillment at Parts Town
A fast-growing leader in critical OEM parts for the food service industry is using goods-to-person robotic picking to meet customer service requirements.

Inside the Parts Town fulfillment center: Built for simplicity, speed and growth
Parts Town’s distribution center was designed from the ground up to speed parts out the door while laying the foundation for growth. Take a closer look at the various areas of the fulfillment center.

S&H Systems signs integrator agreement with Dematic
The new relationship will add extensive conveyor and sortation options to S&H Systems’ solutions portfolio

Regal Rexnord features hands-on demo of sorter
Regal Rexnord Corporation (Booth S4141) is displaying its newly optimized ModSort Trident, new Rexnord Curve System with 1540 Series MatTop Chain, and Perceptiv S2100


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