British Excavating Company Adds Two New Volvos to Its Fleet

Castleford Engineering — a British excavating company based in Liverton — has added two new Volvo crawler excavators to its fleet of vehicles, as well as a pair of mini Volvo excavators, the company announced recently in a news release. But these crawler excavators are unique because they are the first 30-ton excavators to be … Read more

Hot Packaging Trends to Watch in 2015

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

New Product Eliminates Shrink-Wrapping of Banding Palletized Loads

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

Sydney Produce Market Cracks Down on Forklift Safety

“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

Why Are Container Ships Becoming Increasingly Larger?

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

RMT Robotics Now Known as Cimcorp Automation

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