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Miner Limited acquires Central State Door Service
Acquisition by Miner, an OnPoint Group company, expands Miner's service presence across Pennsylvania industrial property corridor.

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.

Green Cubes marks 10 years of producing its flagship line of lithium-ion power systems
Milestone marks a decade of manufacturing safe and reliable li-ion technology for motive power equipment, including lift truck fleets. Milestone marks a decade of manufacturing safe and reliable li-ion technology for motive power equipment, including lift truck fleets.

Raymond West holding Pink Pallet Jack Project to benefit breast cancer awareness
Raymond West will hold the 10th annual Pink Pallet Jack Project auction in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month from Oct. 18 through 29. Winning bids will be announced the first week of November, with all proceeds from the auction being donated to The Tina Fund, Breast Cancer Angels and Northwest Hope & Healing.

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Loading Dock Safety with New Trailer Designs
Truck trailer manufacturers are continuously modifying designs of their trailers' RIGs to improve safety based on impact testing.

Powerfleet and MiX Telematics announce business combination
Combination expected to create a major global provider in the telematics and mobile asset IoT solutions market. Close of the deal is expected in the first quarter of calendar 2024.

Jungheinrich officially opens its new plant in the Czech Republic
The plant is the newest of 12 Jungheinrich production sites around the world, and produces reach trucks

Safety standard for industrial mobile robot systems and applications now available
New standard, ANSI/A3 R15.08-2, available for purchase online from A3 and at the International Robot Safety Conference in Pittsburgh October 9-11.

Assessing the move to lithium
Making a decision on batteries for your fleet benefits from weighing all the factors under a TCO approach.

Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas hosts more than 60 students at Marengo facility for Manufacturing Day
Students gained firsthand experience with the manufacturing process which included everything from the fabrication of parts and robotic welding to powder coat painting and product assembly.  

Hyundai Material Handling introduces new branding
The new corporate name is HD Hyundai Xitesolution-Material Handling. The HD stands for Human Dynamics, reflecting the company’s mission of helping individuals achieve their goals. “Material Handling” will continue to identify the forklift equipment Hyundai offers and the market it serves.

Industry to celebrate Manufacturing Day 2023
Manufacturing Day, or MFG Day, strives to inspire the next generation, positively shift perceptions about the industry, and build the foundation for the manufacturing workforce of the future.

Propane Council calls out energy resiliency for National Propane Day
National Propane Day coming Oct. 7, for power source which remains vital to materials handling, with renewable propane on the rise, notes council.

Tuggers, carts & casters work in harmony to fill the labor gap
The typical warehouse applications largely remain the same year after year--receive, replenish, pick, pack, ship. These basic principles haven't changed a whole lot, but the processes and equipment used to support them are always improving.

Conventional warehousing update
From racks to lift truck power utilization and safety, conventional warehouses have many options to maximize productivity.

60 Seconds With Kevin Curry, industry veteran
Modern's editor sat down with Kevin Curry of Steel King to discuss his plans after retirement.

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.

Rockwell Automation completes acquisition of AMR provider Clearpath Robotics
Acquisition of Clearpath and its OTTO Motors division positioned as providing Rockwell with end-to-end autonomous production logistics solutions

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.


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Extend the Life of Brownfield Warehouses
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Power Supply in Overhead Cranes: Energy Chains vs. Festoons
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