Newsmakers Newletter Archive
March 2011
March 8, 2011
In This Issue:
1. UPS Pays $1.3 Million Fine for Dangerous Trucks
2. Shorter Hours of Service Would Increase Costs
3. Hours of Service Proposal Unacceptable, says NASSTRAC
4. Automation's Image Improving
5. Cross-Docking Activity Is On the Rise
6. Purolator No Longer Courier
7. Even Sales People Fear Supply Chain Breakdowns
8. FedEx Express Adds Early Morning Delivery Services
9. IATA Downgrades Air Transport Outlook by Half a Billion
10. LMS Acquires McCann's Piggyback Consolidation
11. Death's an Unforgiving Teacher
12. Think Global--Even If You're Local
13. Hire Someone Not Looking to be Hired
March 1, 2011
In This Issue:
1. Horizon Pleads Guilty to Violating Antitrust Laws
2. Top Five Challenges to Cross-Border Trade with Mexico
3. U.S.-Bound Shipments Rebound
4. Mergers & Acquisitions Are On the Rise in Logistics Sector
5. PECO Pallets Purchased
6. Hanson Logistics Invests $2 Million in Dole Packaging Facility
7. What Rural Regions Want from Reauthorization
8. Week 5: Import Traffic Up 13% at U.S. Ports
9. Puerto Rican Ports Want Scanning Fee
10. DHL Express Receives ISO Quality Certification
11. Finding Talent Isn't Enough
12. Where the Jobs Are
13. Six Steps to Overcoming Capacity Shortages
14. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
February 2011
February 22, 2011
In This Issue:
1. Pharma Supply Chains Not Adequate, Report Says
2. Sustainable Procurement Can Lead to Cost Savings
3. Making the Case for Reusable Packaging
4. Latest Conveyor Sales Numbers Up Again
5. Toyota Goes North to Alaska
6. Zero Emissions Terminal Begins World Tour
7. Ryder Upgrades Its Rental Fleet
8. Trends in West Coast Logistics
9. Figure Out Safety's ROI
10. Car Makers Gaining Traction
11. Integrate Network Design with Warehouse Design
February 15, 2011
In This Issue:
1. Tom Ridge: "Homeland Security is About Logistics"
2. 2011's Top 11 Business Priorities
3. Robocom Acquires Cambar
4. Retail Chains Changing to Sustainable Hangers
5. Retail Container Traffic Should Be Up 6% in First Half of 2011
6. DHL Expands U.S. Hub to Grow Global Service
7. Brambles Acquires Container and Pooling Solutions
8. Containerized Imports Rose Nearly 9% in January
9. You Think You Ought to be Paid HOW Much?!?
10. Time to Drop Dad's WMS?
11. Could Your Facility Survive a Safety Audit?
12. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
February 8, 2011
In This Issue:
1. Uncertainty's Price Rising
2. Top 10 Supply Chain Predictions for 2011
3. Item-level Tagging Continues to Grow in the Apparel Sector
4. Grants Promote Zero-Emissions Technologies
5. AMB and ProLogis Announce Merger
6. RedPrairie Acquires Escalate Retail
7. Macy's is West Virginia's Latest Win
8. Interpack 2011 Attacks Global Problems
9. UPS Expands Services into Israel and Slovakia
10. Lift Truck Makers Seeing Big Picture
11. Carousel Storage Soothes Broken Heart
12. OSHA Backs Off Proposed Rules
13. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
February 1, 2011
In This Issue:
1. Walmart Calls on Its Suppliers to Create a Healthier Food Supply Chain
2. Intelligrated Exec Anticipates Good 2011
3. Hytrol Launches YouTube Presence
4. Psion Minus "Teklogix"
5. GE Teams Up with Avery Dennison to Commercialize RFID
6. FedEx Extends LTL Offerings
7. Daifuku to Acquire Logan Teleflex
8. Alliance Formed to Help Minority-Owned Supply Chains
9. DOT Launches Competition for Better Wireless Technology
10. Elevator Gang Hijacking VRCs--Again!
11. Can Better be the Enemy of Good?
12. How to Retrieve an ROI from Storage
13. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
January 2011
January 25, 2011
In This Issue:
1. What Do You Think You're Worth?
2. Comeback for Manufacturing and Technology
3. Intermec to Acquire Vocollect
4. FedEx Commits to Greening Its Own Facilities
5. RedPrairie Acquires ShipComm
6. Survey Says: Offshoring Does Not Cost U.S. Jobs
7. Alabama Training Tomorrow's Robot Talent
8. Data Collection Market Raising Voice
9. Going to Walgreens for some sushi
10. System Integration: A New Understanding
11. Building, Maintaining and Measuring Strong Relationships with Your Suppliers
12. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
January 18, 2011
In This Issue:
1. Justice Department Investigates FedEx and UPS for Antitrust Conspiracy
2. Retailers Work Toward a Nimbler Supply Chain in 2011
3. FTC Offers NAFTA Progress Report
4. DOT Proposes Reviving Cross-Border Trucking Program with Mexico
5. Conveyor Sales Numbers Up
6. RFID: No Silver Bullet
7. Sustainability: Dairy Industry Fights Gas Pains
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
January 11, 2011
In This Issue:
1. Dodd Letter Sets Off another Pallet Battle
2. Report Aims to Improve Foodservice Supply Chain
3. Selecting a Slotting Strategy
4. Boeing and Fujitsu Develop RFID Solutions for Aircraft Maintenance
5. CLARK Names New COO
6. Making Forklift Making Safer
7. DHS Needs to Follow Through on Supply Chain Projects
8. Technologies Can Converge Without Crashing
9. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
January 04, 2011
In This Issue:
1. Signs of Strength, Weakness in 2011
2. Growth Expected for Material Handling Equipment
3. How to Deal with Uncertainty
4. Supply Chain Partnership Fights Cholera
5. Pink Lift Truck Sold for Cancer Cause
6. Material Handling Making Mainstream News
7. Cutting Miles and Inventory Piles
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
December 2010
December 28, 2010
In This Issue:
1. NASFM Drops All Code Enforcement Efforts Related to Pallets
2. Consumer Group Takes on Wood Pallets
3. Report Outlines Material Handling Growth Areas
4. MCFA Builds First Set of Jungheinrich Lift Trucks
5. Leading Change
6. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
December 21, 2010
In This Issue:
1. How Much Are You Worth?
2. Federal Marshals Seize Honey from Distribution Center
3. Wal-Mart to Build Super Sustainable Refrigerated DC
4. Report Compares Site Selection Costs for North American Cities
5. In the Tylenol Blame Game, Accountability Proves Tough to Swallow
6. Greasing the Skids for a Butter Battle
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
December 13, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Pallets' Role in Butter Contamination Debated
2. Industry's Opportunities for 2011
3. Voxware Goes Private to Grow
4. Website Recruits Tomorrow's Workers
5. Prest Appointed MHIA COO
6. Uncertainty: The Bogey Man of 2011
7. 2010 Exit Strategy
8. "Classic": The New "Old"
9. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
December 07, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Traceability Still Trumped by Cost-Cutting
2. Raymond Introduces Consulting Services
3. MBA Students Sample GM's Supply Chain
4. Corporate Traffic Now Indirect Air Carrier
5. Curing the Logistics Identity Crisis
6. Anything But A Pain In The Neck
November 2010
November 30, 2010
In This Issue:
1. ABB to Acquire Baldor Electric
2. Datalogic Leads Wireless Supply Chain Project
3. MHI Prepares for Lithium-Ion Battery Production
4. Sealed Air Products Certified Responsible
5. Community College Student Wins RFID Scholarship
6. Protect Your Lift Trucks from Slobs
7. Reverse Logistics is not the Reverse of Logistics
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
November 23, 2010
In This Issue:
1. CHEP Parent Brambles to Buy IFCO
2. Lift Truck OEMs Build Skill and Heart
3. Distributor Hikes Productivity 300%
4. "Emerging" RFID Entrepreneur
5. Bribing You to be Good
6. For ROI, it's Easier Being Green
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
November 16, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Innovation in Action at Office Depot Tour
2. Distribution Growth Opportunities for 2011
3. IWLA Fights Employee-Pay Dictates
4. Conveyor Sales Numbers Up from 2009
5. McKesson to Downsize Carbon Footprint
6. Purolator USA Express Links NYC to Canada
7. Make your Dent in the Deficit
8. Need to Fool-Proof Idiot Lights
9. Break the Chain of Corruption
10. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
November 9, 2010
In This Issue:
1. World Demand for MH Products: $113 billion by 2014
2. St. Louis Warehouse Adopts Solar Power
3. Achieving Global Asset Visibility
4. New President at ATC Logistics and Electronics
5. Aspen Adds Online Recall Tool
6. WERC Confers Facility Certifications
7. How Information Can Keep or Kill Business
8. If You Don't Measure, You Can't Measure Up
9. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
November 2, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Retailers, Manufacturers Unite on Item Level RFID
2. Study Links Revenue Growth to Supply Chain Efficiency
3. Army Depot Updates Forklift Management
4. 2011 Will Test Logistics Skills
5. Corrugated's Life-Cycle Assessed
6. Understand Dangers in Store
7. Reverse Flows Raising Stink
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
October 2010
October 26, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Merger Creates GENCO ATC
2. HighJump Acquires TrueCommerce
3. CPG Companies Discuss Transportation Contingencies
4. Produce Managers Compare RPCs to Corrugated
5. MPI Label Systems Acquires ROI Printing
6. Crown Takes On Great Pumpkin
7. CHEP Announces Contract Extensions
8. Mold in Them Thar Pills?
9. Item-Level RFID is Bullish Economic Indicator
10. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
October 19, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Tylenol Recalled Again for Moldy Odor
2. New BMW Plant Adopts Fuel Cells
3. Vertical Carousels Make Mold Maker Leaner
4. When Tech Bandages Stop Working
5. Emerson Opens Material Handling Division
6. Put Data Pirates Up a Tree
7. Secret of Business Life? One Thing...
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
October 12, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Supply Chain Efficiency Could Save Fed $500 billions
2. FDA Puts Squeeze on Juice Distributor
3. Voxware Brings Voice to GS1 Program
4. MRO Supplier Fast-Tracks MH Retrofits
5. UK MH Show is Big on Small Footprints
6. Material Handling Industry Must Take Bold Action
7. Starving for Efficiency on a No-Wireless Diet
8. Why Russ Meller Deserves the Rare Reed-Apple
9. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
October 5, 2010
In This Issue:
1. New Guidance on Work Platforms
2. Drive Business Value through Improved Procurement
3. Pink Lift Truck Reminder of Breast Cancer Fight
4. FedEx Freight Will Lay Off 1,700 Employees
5. Automation's ROI: A Hard Look at Soft Benefits
6. Pre-Training Saves Time and Money
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
September 2010
September 28, 2010
In This Issue:
1. HK-Dematic Deal is Economic Indicator, Says CNBC Analyst
2. Miner Safety Bill Could Affect All Industries
3. Conveyor Orders Up Almost 20%
4. Industrial Batteries Boring? Not to an Astronaut.
5. Why safety should NOT be a priority
6. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
September 21, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Manufacturing Is Growing Faster than the Economy
2. Dematic's HK Acquisition is Official
3. Conveyor Numbers Still Positive
4. The Dark Side of the Supply Chain
5. Crown Eyes New Markets with New Pneumatic
6. Cheap Lift Truck Labor Isn't Affordable
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
September 14, 2010
In This Issue:
1. TSI Terminal Systems Implements Wireless Technology at Ports
2. Find Logistics Talent at Career Fair
3. ODIN benchmarks eight top handhelds for 25 industries
4. GM's Contract With 3PL Adds 500 Jobs
5. ROIs from Washington? Don't Hold Your Breath.
6. Conveyors As Freight Highways
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
September 7, 2010
In This Issue:
1. OSHA Wants to Re-Tool On-Site Consultations
2. Wire Decking Industry Fights Chinese Imports
3. Dematic Takes Logistics Conference on the Road
4. North American Sourcing & Supply Chain Conference Hits Houston
5. Fastenal DC Expansion Good Economic Indicator
6. Automotive Logistics Conference in Dearborn
7. The Hardest Product to Package
8. Your Chance to Shape Freight Policy
9. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
August 2010
August 31, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Real Time RFID Solution for Wineries
2. Weber Distribution Wins Vitamin Shoppe Business
3. Build-to-Suit Distribution Center to Serve Western Mass.
4. Aspen Logistics Pursues Playground Project
5. On staying alive: Smart or just lucky?
6. Off-Road Implications of Heavier On-Road Loads
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
August 24, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Material Handling Management to become Material Handling & Logistics
2. MHIA's MODEX links material handling to supply chain
3. Finished Goods Inventories Fall, Order Fill Rates Rise
4. U.S. Marshals bust rodent-infested warehouse
5. Warehouse technology to be demonstrated at CSCMP
6. Garbage In, Garbage Out, Garbage RFID
7. AGVs follow paths undreamed of by inventor
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
August 17, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Increase plant space without construction
2. Protective Packaging Solutions Acquires Alpha Packaging
3. DuPont honors Kenco for 14-year safety record
4. Avery Dennison sets Guinness record for school donation
5. Conveyor industry numbers on an incline
6. How good information gets you through bad times
7. Too many unfaithful to safety
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
August 10, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Dematic/HK combo to open world of systems options
2. Cimcorp expands markets with RMT Robotics acquisition
3. Plug Power and Raymond demo fuel cells at UNFI
4. Wisconsin Lift Truck ups service strength with Witco acquisition
5. AC lift trucks getting IC-like
6. Factor safety into your equipment ROI
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
August 3, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Equipment lessor bullish about material handling
2. IWLA: Recalls need better definition of product "transfer"
3. WERC offers warehouse certification
4. Barloworld offers tech training to customers
5. Barcoding Inc. goes Platinum with Psion Teklogix
6. Logistics gives material handling a makeover
7. Find your hidden systems
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
July 2010
July 27, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Walmart makes fashion statement with item-level RFID
2. Material handling and logistics getting high-level attention
3. Army's robotic lift trucks show civilian potential
4. Clark's new V.P. on how business must develop
5. NACCO wins safety awards
6. A material handling manager's multiple personalities
7. Think "system" when thinking "lift truck"
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
July 20, 2010
In This Issue:
1. What customers are teaching equipment vendors
2. Teklogix opens innovation pool
3. United Natural Foods converts lift trucks to fuel cells
4. Rental pallets certified safe for food chain
5. Taking the pain out of pallets
6. Get employees to stick with material handling
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
July 13, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Toyota's Brett Wood on the economy: More a "swoosh" than a "V"
2. Imperial Sugar pays millions for ignoring combustible dust
3. Make sustainability more understandable
4. Green drives Jaguar to continue with CHEP
5. Toyota names new executives
6. Conveyor orders and sales up
7. A Weighty Proposition
8. Should Last (Mile) Be First?
9. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
July 6, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Air Liquide to Power Walmart Canada's Fleet of Green Lift Trucks
2. Improve Supply Chain Execution with Better Technology
3. Owens & Minor Adopts 3PL Solution to Improve Pharma Distribution
5. iGPS Funds Planting of 200,000 Trees in Oregon
6. Driving Waste out of the DC
7. Packing Data Into a Compact Code
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
June 2010
June 29, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Top Supply Chains Have Top-Level Support
2. Navarre Adds 3PL Services Using WMS Technology
3. Dot Foods Expands Warehouse to Facilitate Quicker Picking
5. Accuracy Rates Shine Through at Retailer's DC
6. Argonne Focuses on Test Procedures for All-Electric Vehicle
7. Lift Truck Rebound Leads to Cautious Optimism
8. Reflections on Supply Chain Excellence
9. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
June 22, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Federal Marshals Seize Honey from Distribution Center
2. Fuel Cells to Power Material Handling Fleet in New Sysco DC
3. Crown Honors Dealers with Summit Awards
5. WERC Names New Directors
6. Adept Acquires MobileRobots
7. A Smarter Way to Control Rising Logistics Costs
8. Capacity for Change
9. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
June 15, 2010
In This Issue:
1. OSHA Seeks Input on Combustible Dust Hazards
2. iGPS Taps Enfora for Pallet Tracking Technology
3. Inmar Names President of Reverse Logistics
5. Castell Relocates Headquarters
6. Slot Smarter, Not Harder
7. Automating Small-Volume Material Handling
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
June 8, 2010
In This Issue:
1. MHIA Predicts Further Growth
2. Yaskawa and Motoman Merge
3. MCFA Introduces Jungheinrich Lift Truck Dealers
5. Infor Acquires Bridgelogix
6. Enhancing Supply Chain Management Using RFID
7. Maximizing Efficiency with Mixed-Case Palletizing
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
June 1, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Congress Considers Increasing FDA Recall Authority
2. Wal-Mart Wants to Control Supplier Transportation
3. Consumer Group Takes on Wood Pallets
5. International Barcode Standard Available for Review
6. Clearing the Air
7. Time to Get Serious About Product Stewardship
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
May 2010
May 25, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Report Compares Site Selection Costs for North American Cities
2. OSHA Proposes Revisions to Slip-and-Fall Standards
3. enVista Debuts Courses for Supply Chain Executives
5. Intelligrated Launches Bilingual Website
6. The Process of Quality
7. Maker of Tylenol Shuts Down U.S. Facility
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
May 18, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Manufacturers Show Confidence in Sustained Recovery
2. RedPrairie Acquires SmartTurn
3. Fleet Management Firm Introduces Green Lift Truck Services
4. Conveyor Orders Continue to Rise
5. Exclusive: Inside Wal-Mart's New Green DC
6. Solving the Energy Management Riddle
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
May 11, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Product Quality Is Top Supply Chain Priority in 2010
2. Signature Brands Deploys Mobile Distribution System
3. Knapp to Offer Kollmorgen Warehouse Control Systems
4. Brokaw to Headline HK Systems Conference
5. Simplify Before You Automate
6. Lean Thinking in Lean Times
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
May 4, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Associated Material Handling Helps Develop Future Talent
2. United Natural Foods to Power Lift Truck Fleet With Hydrogen
3. Verizon Launches IT Consulting Services
4. Linde Displays Hydrogen Fueling Technologies
5. High Technology in Logistics
6. Solving the Energy Management Riddle
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
April 2010
April 27, 2010
In This Issue:
1. NASFM Drops All Code Enforcement Efforts Related to Pallets
2. 3PL Launches Solar Energy Services Division
3. IBM Opens Sustainable Manufacturing Plant
4. Axium to Offer ABB Mixed-Load Palletizing Systems
5. NA 2010: The Center of It All
6. Conveyor Equipment Market Is On the Move
7. Gear Up for Recovery
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
April 20, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Mild Recovery Has Begun: PMMI Report
2. Barloworld to Distribute Mariotti Lift Trucks
3. IFCO Executives Help Rebuild New Orleans Neighborhood
4. Clark DC Receives Governor's Safety Award
5. Forward Momentum
6. Leading Change
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
April 13, 2010
In This Issue:
1. iGPS Urges Congress to Set Fire Safety Standards for Pallets
2. Palligistics Acquires AIDCO Palletizing Equipment
3. Atlas Copco to Open $6 Million Distribution Center
4. DOE Taps Nuvera Fuel Cells for Durability, Performance Research
5. Packaged to Win
6. How Green Is Your Loading Dock?
7. 7 Recruiting Trends for 2010
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
April 6, 2010
In This Issue:
1. IWLA Names Chairman
2. TMHU Announces President's Award Winners
3. Crown Issues Sustainability Report
4. Hillenbrand Acquires K-Tron
5. For Better or Worse: Making WMS Decisions
6. Pushing Equipment to the Limits and Beyond
7. Technology, Integration and Data Drive Supply Chain Visibility
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
March 2010
March 30, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Healthcare Supply Chain Partners Report on GS1 Identification Project
2. Genco to Power Lift Trucks with Fuel Cells at Kimberly-Clark DC
3. Saddle Creek Opens New DC for Food Maker
4. 3PL Helps 3PL With Automotive Logistics Project
5. Security Within the Four Walls
6. Stretch Your Imagination
7. 7 Recruiting Trends for 2010
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
March 23, 2010
In This Issue:
1. How Much Are You Worth?
2. Toyota Restructures Material Handling Group
3. Manufacturing CFOs Reveal Top Concerns for 2010
4. Logility Acquires Optiant
5. What Keeps You Awake At Night?
6. Close Encounters of the Smart Kind
7. The Recovery-Ready Fleet
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
March 16, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Automated Packaging Systems Appoints New President
2. Grainger Names Top Suppliers
3. Conveyor Orders, Shipments Declined in January
4. High-Intensity Savings
5. Automated Lift Trucks On the Double
6. Customizing Industrial Computers for Your Environment
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
March 9, 2010
In This Issue:
1. MCFA Builds First Set of Jungheinrich Lift Trucks
2. Pregis Acquires IntelliPack
3. RPA Expresses Support for Product Stewardship
4. Brennan Investment, Institute St. Onge Partner on Build-to-Suit Projects
5. Paper or Plastic: A Fresh Look at Protective Packaging
6. Combustible Dust: What You Need to Know, Part 2
7. Cracking the Whip on the Economy
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
March 2, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Bath and Body Works Facility Earns LEED Silver Certification
2. Cat to Serve as Official Lift Truck of Houston Rodeo
3. Tax on Warehouses Will Drive Away Jobs, Says IWLA
4. Barcode Scanning Helps Salvation Army Distribute Goods in Haiti
5. ECO-LABELING: Green or Smokescreen?
6. Emissions Regulation: A New Era Dawns
7. Remembering a Champion
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
February 2010
February 23, 2010
In This Issue:
1. MHIA Expects Growth in Equipment Orders to Exceed 6%
2. Private Equity Fund Acquires RedPrairie
3. GMA, RPA to Host Events at Pack Expo 2010
4. Clark Names Top Lift Truck Dealers
5. 9 Ways to Keep Your Career Resolution
6. Tools of the Outsourcing Trade
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
February 16, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Wal-Mart to Build Super Sustainable Refrigerated DC
2. Conveyor Orders Increased in December
3. OSHA Cites C&W Industries for Safety Violations
4. Berlin Packaging to Acquire All-Pak
5. From Training to Enforcement
6. Safety By Design
7. New Flooring Standard Gets Traction
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
February 9, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Businesses to Increase Hiring, Capital Spending in First Half
2. Distributors Offer 2010 Industry Forecast
3. Student Competition to Focus on Unit Load Design
4. Changing the Rules
5. Total Recalls
6. Bulk Containers Go Lean
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
February 2, 2010
In This Issue:
1. MHIA Joins International Sustainable Packaging Group
2. Global Packaging Project Gains Momentum
3. Nearly Half of U.S. Manufacturers Optimistic About U.S. Economy
4. PECO Pallet Issues Statement on McNeil Drug Recalls
5. Bad Medicine
6. In the Tylenol Blame Game, Accountability Proves Tough to Swallow
7. Soy Stakes Claim in Pallet Debate
8. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
January 2010
January 26, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Industry Contributes to Haiti Relief Efforts
2. System Logistics Completes Merger with Diamond Phoenix
3. Bubble Wrap Turns 50
4. Pay Bernie's Example Forward
5. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
January 19, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Komatsu to Discontinue Tusk Lift Truck Brand
2. Former Grocery Executive Admits to Falsifying 'Bug Stamp' on Wood Pallets
3. Lift Truck Dealer Network Launches North American Division
4. Report Predicts Growth in Automated Building Controls
5. Labeling for Longevity
6. Optimize Your Labor Resources
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
January 12, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Chemical in Wood Pallets Blamed for Latest Tylenol Recall
2. Report Outlines Material Handling Growth Areas
3. MCFA Expands Cat, Jungheinrich Lift Truck Lines
4. Alta to Represent Hyster Lift Trucks in Western Michigan, Chicago
5. The Biggest "Losers"
6. Going the Extra Mile
7. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
January 5, 2010
In This Issue:
1. Interlake Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
2. Changes Coming From OSHA
3. Wal-Mart to Rank Supplier Products for Sustainability Based on Supply Chain Data
4. IFCO Fined Record $21 Million for Illegal Workers
5. Manufacturers Come to Washington to Oppose Employee Free Choice Act
6. OSHA Regulatory Agenda to Impact Material Handling Operations
7. PepsiCo Brands Switch to iGPS Pallets
8. Pallet Debate Still on Fire; Risk to Food Supply Now in Dispute
9. Defendants Crown, Jefferds Win Liability Case
10. Pallet Provider Helps Nab Thieves
11. The Leading Edge: Technologies to Watch in 2010
12. Improving Warehouse Profitability in Difficult Times
13. Last Week's Top 3 Articles
