Storage

Whether for new warehouses or expansions, several key preparation steps can ensure warehouse labels and signs meet needs and go-live date.

Two new online QuickShip programs to reduce lead times of select high-density storage solutions from Vidmar and Lista by more than 25 percent.

Blake Nealey, national sales and account manager at Elite Storage Solutions (Booth S4535) and Lawrence “Skip” Eastman, CEO of Twinlode Corp., shared details on their companies’ design/manufacture collaborative partnership, which supports Twinlode’s shift in focus as a complete materials handling systems integrator.

International Technical Coatings (ITC; Booth S2452) is displaying a few new components from its product lineup this week at ProMat 2017, including a new wire flue spacer for use in any racking system.

Hannibal Industries, a manufacturer of steel pallet racks, (Booth S1827) announced at ProMat that 2016 was a historic year of growth for the company, which manufactures its products in two U.S. locations.

Mallard Manufacturing (Booth S445) just added a new product, Extend-a-Rail, to its engineering applications product line. Extend-a-Rail answers the need for flexible, time-saving pallet staging and off-loading.

A-Safe (Booth S1668) has developed RackEye—a live racking damage detector system—that provides real-time, 24-hour rack monitoring in between inspections.

UNEX Manufacturing (Booth S429) is showcasing prototypes of their new Pick-Plank for pallet storage and guiderails for Span-Track, along with other carton flow and lineside storage solutions that help companies to maximize space usage, increase pick rates and improve ergonomics at the point of pick.

The agreement includes the rights to market Knapp’s OSR Shuttle and other products.

Freedonia study explores opportunities and headwinds for reusables.

Combining the capabilities of integrators and forklift makers will pool expertise among manufacturing, designing and servicing a variety of intralogistics systems.

Initial focus will be industrial storage and retrieval hardware and software business before expanding into integrated systems.

Facility to support demand for pallet shuttle automated storage and retrieval systems.

A seemingly simple step, receiving is an opportunity to make or break efficiency later in the distribution process.

Distributor’s new warehouse storage system calls for safer, more versatile forklifts.