Air Products — a leading industrial gases company based in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania — announced recently that it has partnered with Japan’s Suzuki Shokan Co. to work together on the design, construction and operation of hydrogen fueling stations for Japanese forklifts. The purpose of the pact is to find ways to provide cleaner, more cost-equipment … Read more
Editor’s Note: The following is the latest in a series of periodic articles examining business trends and their effect on industries in the future. By now, most everybody has seen something about three-dimensional printers — a news article, a YouTube video, perhaps even a live demonstration at a trade expo. 3D printers work much the … Read more
Simply upgrading fans inside a grinding mill at a UK cement factory was enough to save the company more than $269,000 per year. The Purfleet Works of Hanson Cement is located on the River Thames in Essex, England, and has the capacity to produce about a million tons per year of Regen, a special type … Read more
Here’s a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: After more than nine months of negotiations, West Coast dock workers and owners have FINALLY reached a new five-year contract agreement. We’ll give you the details and take a look at what comes next … You … Read more
After more than nine months of contact talks and a work slowdown that snarled cargo container ports up and down the West Coast, port owners and dock workers finally reached a tentative five-year contract agreement over the weekend. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s leadership has agreed to a five-year contract with the Pacific Maritime … Read more
Saia, one of the nation’s largest freight truck companies, just got bigger by purchasing Dallas-based LinkEx Inc. for $25 million. LinkEx, which was founded in 2002, is a diversified, asset-light third-party logistics firm that has about 50 employees and generated revenues of approximately $36 million in 2014. The company provides customers with a variety of … Read more
Editor’s Note: In this week’s featured article, we are going to be “kicking it old school” by taking a look at a handful of simple, low-tech tools that provide more productivity than other complicated high-tech devices that cost exponentially more. Companies that produce materials handling products are always trying to outshine each other with the … Read more
A Swedish construction equipment manufacturer has unveiled a new type of breaker that provides more power for asphalt cutting, breaking and post driving while delivering less vibrations to operators’ arms and hands. The gas-powered 2015 Cobra PROe and TTe breakers — introduced this month by Atlas Copco, of Stockholm, Sweden — feature a unique percussion … Read more
Combilift is hoping the “luck o’ the Irish” helps them strike gold when they build a new $50 million manufacturing facility in County Monaghan, Ireland. The facility is slated to open in 2017. Combilift –which has its US headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina — is doubling down on its home-grown investment with the announcement of … Read more
Here’s a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: Two of the biggest names in the forklift industry are scheduled to face off against each other in a North Carolina federal courtroom. We’ll tell you what’s at stake … Sometimes low-tech or “no-tech” is better … Read more
