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CLARK’s Louisville DC: Nine Accident-Free Years
CLARK Material Handling Company was presented with the Kentucky Governor’s Safety & Health Award for the fifth year in a row at a ceremony held at CLARK’s Aftermarket Parts Distribution Center in Louisville, KY last month...
Recharging Station Gifted for On-Road Electrics
Graybar, a distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, donated an electric vehicle (EV) charging station to the IEEE Operations Center in Piscataway, N.J...
Toyota Names New Vice Presidents
Toyota Industrial Equipment Mfg., Inc. (TIEM), the Columbus, Ind. plant responsible for manufacturing the majority of Toyota lift trucks sold in the U.S., has named two new vice presidents...
NMHG Receives Carolina Star Award for Safety
NACCO Materials Handling Group (NMHG), the makers of Hyster and Yale lift trucks, received the Carolina Star Safety Award during a ceremony on Tuesday hosted by the North Carolina Department of Labor...
New Leadership Coming to Industrial Truck Association
The Executive Committee of the Industrial Truck Association (ITA) announced that William J. Montwieler, executive director of ITA since 1983, will retire on December 31st...
Rush and Sky-Trax Merge for Lift Truck Tracking
Rush Tracking Systems and Sky-Trax, Inc. have merged to form a vertically integrated provider of smart truck tracking systems for manufacturing and warehousing environments...
Fuel Cell Markets Juicing Up
Global fuel cell spending—including research and development funding and investment in fuel cell enterprises, as well as commercial sales—is forecast to climb 10.9 percent annually to $10.2 billion in 2015 and then nearly double to $19.0 billion in 2020, according to World Fuel Cells, a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc...
New President for Toyota Industrial Equipment
Toyota Industrial Equipment Mfg., Inc. (TIEM) named a new president: Toshiya Yamagishi. He is also president of Toyota Industries North America, Inc.; vice chairman of Toyota Material Handling North America (TMHNA) of Columbus, Ind.; and serves on the board of directors for Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. (TMHU) of Irvine, Calif...
Lift Trucks—For Real
Today’s lift truck advances are driven by practical realities gleaned by OEMs and distributors anxious to provide the answers to their customers’ business needs...
Foodservice Forklifts for Freezer and Fridge
Kuna Foodservice, a food distribution center based in St. Louis, Mo., has been servicing Midwestern clients such as restaurants and country clubs for more than 90 years...
High-Visibility Lift Trucks
LiuGong Machinery Corp., is introducing a new line of lift trucks to the U.S. market, supported by LiuGong Forklift Americas, located in Katy, Texas...
Mitsubishi Cat Helps Build Houston Habitat
Houston-based manufacturer Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA) recently continued its partnership with Houston Habitat for Humanity in an effort to help local families achieve their dream of home ownership...
Doosan Business Dedicated to Lift Trucks
Doosan has formed a new affiliate company, tentatively named, Doosan Industrial Vehicle Co., Ltd. The new business will oversee all of Doosan’s global lift truck activities...
Raymond Site Wins Manufacturing Excellence Award
The Raymond Corporation in Muscatine, Iowa, has received the annual President’s Manufacturing Excellence Award given by Toyota Industries Corporation...
Radiation-Shielded Forklifts Will Clean Up in Japan
To help handle and dispose of contaminated rubble at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), the parent company of Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks, recently developed two special heavy-duty forklifts with radiation shielded cabins...
Short Trips Start Inside the DC
Quad Graphics found that efficiencies at their dock could lower the costs of outgoing loads...
Another Crown Facility Achieves Zero Landfill Status
Lift truck manufacturer Crown Equipment Corporation announced that its electronics manufacturing plant in New Bremen, Ohio, has achieved zero landfill status. It is the second Crown facility to reuse or recycle all of its waste...
Equipment Leasing: The New World of Hybrid Financing
Despite some significant changes in accounting rules, leasing will continue to be an attractive financing option for companies...
The ROI of Timely Lift Truck Replacement and Service
Here’s how a combination of new lift trucks and scheduled service helped an auto parts supplier take the pains out of growing its business...
Toyota Aligns Businesses
As part of Toyota Industries Corporation’s (TICO) global strategy to focus on its material handling business, Irvine, Calif.-based Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. (TMHU) will acquire the Industrial Equipment Division (IED) of Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) effective Oct. 1, 2011...
New President at MCFA
Hiroshi Nagai has been named president of Houston-based Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA). He replaces Shigeru Tanemura, who will return to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd...
Making Sense of Power Sources
The case for fuel cells is strong if you’re big and can start with a blank sheet of paper. For everyone else it may take a bit more paper and time to figure the payback...
New Hyster Dealership for Long Islanders
HILO-Yale Industrial Trucks has acquired Hyster lift truck dealer Viccaro Equipment. The newly authorized Hyster dealership will now be known as HILO Materials Handling Group to reflect its new dual-dealer status....
GENCO Automates Lift Trucks
Kollmorgen, manufacturer of driverless control technology, and GENCO ATC, a leading third-party logistics supplier, have agreed to a pilot Pick-n-Go project...
Dematic and Crown Collaborate on Warehousing Solutions
Dematic, a supplier of logistics systems for the factory, warehouse, and distribution center, and lift truck manufacturer Crown Equipment Corporation, announced an alliance to collaborate on the research and development of new products for warehousing and distribution...
