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Conference Held In Chicago This Week for Forklift Parts, Service Managers

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The Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association is holding its annual conference in a convention center just outside Chicago this week. The event’s theme this year is “Delivering a Superior Customer  Service Experience for Your Parts and Service Customers.” The conference is scheduled to be held Wednesday and Thursday at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare hotel … Read more

Battery-Free AGVs Allow Heavier Loads, Longer Work Time

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Automated Guided Vehicles, which essentially are driverless forklifts, have been used for many years in industrial and warehouse applications to carry lighter loads along preprogrammed pathways. But up until now, because they are battery-powered, they have been limited in the amount of weight they can carry and how long they can remain on the job … Read more

Extend the Life of Your Hoses with Hose Reels

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Hoses are essential for keeping your warehouse or manufacturing facility clean and sanitary, or for filling water tanks or other equipment. But if they are not properly stored they can often be easily damaged or prematurely worn by being trampled upon or being run over by forklifts, pallet jacks and other heavy equipment. Most companies … Read more

These Days, Packaging Tape Is For More Than Just Sealing Boxes

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When most people think about packaging tape, duct tape and other types of tapes, the first thing that typically comes to mind is a convenient and efficient way to cardboard boxes. But innovative artists and other creative people are doing extraordinarily uncommon things with this common item. For example, a team of Viennese and Croatian … Read more

Private Investment Group Buys Stake in Oshkosh Corp.

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About 10.1% of the shares of equipment maker Oshkosh Corp. have been purchased by a private investment group, according to industry news reports. The purchase of more than 8.7 million shares by Capital World Investors, a Los Angeles-based division of Capital Research and Management Co., was publicly disclosed via a mandatory filing with the US Securities … Read more

Hyster-Yale Selling Ex-Dividend Stock In Advance of Dividend

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Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Inc., a manufacturer or forklifts and other heavy equipment, began offering ex-dividend stock on August 28 in advance of an anticipated dividend payment of $0.25/share scheduled to by paid on September 13. Shareholders who purchase the company’s stock prior to the dividend date are eligible to receive the cash dividend payment. Hyster-Yale … Read more

Environmentally Friendly Use for Post-Consumer Barrels

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As gardening season winds down for the year, home gardening enthusiasts already are making their plans for next year’s growing season. One option is a gravity-based irrigation system. Barrels made of fiberglass, wood, earthenware or polyethylene are ideal for building such a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly system for irrigating a home garden — or even … Read more

Warehouse Safety Improved with Installation of Safety Netting

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The safety manager of a major cosmetics manufacturer recently improved the safety of the company’s warehouse by installing pallet rack safety netting and a pallet stop system, according to a news report. The undisclosed company’s manager chose a system that protected both products and employees by limiting the space pallets of products could be moved. … Read more

Tilt and Bulk Trucks Offer Solution to Trash and Other Potentially Messy Problems

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If you want to improve your trash or product handling at your business or workplace, you should consider utilizing a tilt or bulk truck. These are two-, three- and four-wheeled vehicles that are big enough to handle bulk materials, refuse, recyclables or whatever it is you need to move from place to place. Clean, Safe and Efficient Removing … Read more

Forklift and Crane Used to Transport Obese Man to Hospital

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Workers in Saudi Arabia used a forklift to transport a man weighing more than 1,000 lbs. to a local hospital for treatment, according to news reports. Khaled Mohsin Shaeri, who authorities said weighed 610 kg — or  1,345 lbs. — was transported from his hometown of Jizan to the Saudi capital city of Riyadh via a special-equipped military airplane and then off-loaded using a forklift, which then brought him to a hospital.

Because of his enormous weight, Shaeri, 20, had been unable to leave his bedroom for the past two and a half years, but thanks to Saudi King Abdullah, who personally financed the transport operation, he was able to get medical care for his condition. A cousin told Reuters that Shaeri had contracted an unspecified disease when he was a child that caused him to rapidly put on weight, and he soon became bedridden.

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