First Jungheinrich Warehouse products ready from Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift

Flight Systems Industrial Products acquires General Electric Vehicle Controls

Kaman to acquire Fawick de Mexico

NMHG appoints NITCO as Hyster Dealer for part of New England territory

RFID solution delivers measurable gains for El Puerto de Liverpool

Shelving Inc. appoints Kusky as marketing manager

SightLogix appoints Green as Southeast director of sales

Tompkins Associates’ Bonebrake honored as ‘Provider Pro To Know’

Peter Burnham promoted to VP of sales

NSF International announces new director of sustainability

First Jungheinrich Warehouse products ready from Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift

The first Jungheinrich brand products manufactured by Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc.  for Jungheinrich...

Flight Systems Industrial Products acquires General Electric Vehicle Controls

On Feb. 23, 2010, FSIP formalized an acquisition of the commercial and manufacturing assets of GE Electric Vehicles Controls.

FSIP is the industry’s leading remanufacturer of controls...

Shelving Inc. appoints Kusky as marketing manager

Shelving Inc., a supplier of commercial, industrial and home storage systems, announced it appointed Kira Kusky as marketing manager.

In her new position, Kusky is responsible for...

Toyota unveils new 8-Series 4-Wheel AC electric lift truck

Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A. Inc. unveiled its innovative new line of 8-Series, 4-wheel AC electric lift trucks, available in 4,000-6,500 lb load capacities — including...

Kaman to acquire Fawick de Mexico

Kaman Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Kaman Industrial Technologies Corporation agreed to acquire the assets of Fawick de Mexico, S.A. de C. V. of Mexico City, Mexico. Fawick will become...

NA 2010: 4 days of solutions to make your supply chain work

If you’re looking for the most comprehensive showcase of material handling and logistics, equipment, systems and technologies in the U.S., you don’t need to go any further than NA 2010 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Held April 26-29 in the I-X...

A continuing look at opportunity!

Now is the time to take a hard look at reality in your equipment dealership. Take a look at your most recent financial statement and focus on these two questions:

1. Which department produces the greatest percentage of gross profit?

2....

Learning responsibility for our behavior

In the 21st century world of teams, participation and total quality management, we hear a lot about “Walking the Talk.” Essentially, this means individuals, especially leaders and managers, make certain their behavior is consistent with their...

Still scary, but somewhat better

Here we are in 2010 and we still aren’t sure if the light we see is a train or the end of the tunnel. What do you think?

Some good news, the number of dealer personnel attending meetings and conventions is increasing. For example, AED’s...

Closing the sale
Excerpted from Chapter 13 of “Take Your Performance Up a Notch”

Whenever I ask salespeople to rate themselves on their competence at all the different parts of the sales process, they invariably rate themselves low at closing the sale. Unfortunately, sales people who don’t close consistently waste a lot of...

Toyota unveils new 8-Series 4-Wheel AC electric lift truck

Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A. Inc. unveiled its innovative new line of 8-Series, 4-wheel AC electric lift trucks, available in 4,000-6,500 lb load capacities — including...

FANUC Robotics expands certified training program with M-1iA Robot

FANUC Robotics America Inc. added its M-1iA robot to the Certified Education Robot Training program line-up. Launched in 2008, the CERT program certifies instructors at educational...

Revolutionary palletizing solution, Columbia’s new FL2000 Palletizer

Professionals in the packaging industry have been looking for a palletizer that is modular, energy efficient, loaded with standard safety features and EASY: easy to install, easy to operate, easy to maintain, easy to adjust and flexible for tomorrow’s...

New ultra-high cycle lift table offers a 3 million cycle warranty

Advance Lifts Inc., in St. Charles, Ill., developed a completely new machine tool lift table design for ultra-high cycle material handling applications. When heavy loads need to...

SICK launches OLM high-speed, long-range fine positioning sensor

SICK, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of sensors, safety systems, machine vision and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, announced the launch...

March 2010 Calendar of Events

Here is the calendar of events for the month of March 2010.

March 2-5, 2010: IMHX 2010
NEC | Birmingham, UK

March 30-31, 2010: