Dan M It used to take the British industrial grain dryer manufacturer Alvan Blanch five workers, four forklifts and three hours to move just one of its pieces of equipment onto low loaders for transport. But thanks the recent purchase of a Combilift Straddle Carrier, the procedure can now be completed in just 10 minutes by a … Read more
Here’s a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: Beginning this summer, you may start to see more Mexican semi-trailer trucks on interstates … and some people are hopping mad about it. We’ll tell you why … Labor problems at West Coast ports continue and … Read more
A packaging trade show held in Chicago earlier this winter provided an insight into the kind of packaging trends we can expect to see in the coming year. According to a report compiled by organizers of the PACK EXPO International and Pharma EXPO 2014 — which was held at Chicago’s McCormick Place convention facility in … Read more
A Michigan materials packaging company has come up with an innovative, “green” system for securing palletized loads that doesn’t require plastic wrap or the use of bands. Creative Techniques, which is headquartered in Michigan’s Orion Township, used structural foam plastic to create the enviroLid, a heavy duty lid that sits atop pallets of totes or … Read more
“Enough’s enough!” That’s what the owners of a produce marketplace in Sydney, Australia, said after a series of forklift accidents resulted multiple injuries and at least one fatality. Multiple forklift accidents at Sydney Markets — the largest fresh food market in the southern hemisphere — in 2012 and 2013 prompted the market’s owners to require … Read more
The director of a charity in the UK that provides toys to Romanian orphans pledged to “carry on” despite the theft of the charity’s only forklift. The theft occurred December 10 at the headquarters of Convoy Aid, which is based in Stockton. The vehicle, which was valued at $10,586 was stolen along with various other … Read more
On a foggy Wednesday morning last week, the container ship CSCL Globe slowly glided into the harbor at the Port of Felixstowe, a container port located on England’s eastern shore. While that’s not an unusual sight — Felixstowe is the UK’s busiest container port and the sixth largest port in Europe — what was remarkable … Read more
Effective January 1, the Canadian tire handling equipment maker RMT Robotics officially changed its name to Cimcorp Automation. The company — which is based in Grimsby, Ontario, and makes robotic gantry-based order fulfillment and tire-handling solutions — was absorbed into the Finnish corporation Cimcorp Oy in 2010 and is only now getting around to changing … Read more
For the first time ever, India now has more cold storage capacity than any other nation on Earth, including the US, according to a new report. While the US remains second, China is a close third in terms of the total number of square feet of cold storage capacity such as refrigerated warehouses and other … Read more
Here’s a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: Cargo container ships are continuing to get larger with the world’s largest now having the capacity to carry more than 19,000 containers. So why are these ships becoming so huge? We’ll take a look … Boeing … Read more
