Knight Transportation — the Phoenix-based trucking giant — has purchased Barr-Nunn Transportatio, a dry van truckload carrier based in Des Moines, Iowa, for $112.4 million, according to a company news release. The move expands Knight’s profile in the Eastern US by allowing it to take over Barr-Nunn’s leased facilities in Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. … Read more
Shipping materials that can cause harm to humans or the environment if they are spilled during transport requires an informed knowledge about national and international laws and regulations. If something should happen and your company is responsible for a haz mat spill because the proper protocols weren’t followed, ignorance is no defense. Fortunately, there are … Read more
Here’s a special sneak peek at some of the stories you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: The largest ship ever built recently chugged out of a shipyard in South Korea. We’ll give you an exclusive tour of this mega-sized cargo container now sailing the high seas … and tell you why many … Read more
Every time an employee has to stop and actually touch a package at BRG Sports — the manufacturer of football helmets, child safety seats and other plastic products — it costs the company time, money and efficiency. So when the company was designing its new 813,000 square food combination manufacturing facility and distribution center in … Read more
A pink Bobcat excavator has been donated to a manufacturing jobs hiring firm in the UK as a means of raising breast cancer awareness. The Bobcat E14 compact excavator — which was painted pink, the color associated with breast cancer awareness — was donated jointly by Promac Solutions Ltd and Doosan Construction Equipment to L … Read more
As another indicator of the strength of the US economy, railroad and intermodal volume in September both showed significant gains, according to a report issued by the Association of American Railroads (AAR). Septembers’s carload volumes were the seventh straight month that they have been higher than the previous month, something that hasn’t happened since the … Read more
Despite a slight drop from the previous, month, the Purchasing Managers’ Indexes (PMI) in September remained optimistically high and continued growth in US manufacturing is forecasted at least through the end of this year, according to a new report fromthe Institute for Supply Management (ISM). In September, the PMI fell 2.4% to 56.6, compared to … Read more
Ballard Power Systems — the producer of fuel cell stacks based in Vancouver, Canada — announced that it will continue to be the exclusive supplier of fuel stack cells for Plug Power. The two companies have renewed their existing agreement through 2017, with the option for one-year extensions after that, according to a Ballard news … Read more
The manufacture of materials handling equipment in Europe fell 6.8% to just under $70.75 billion during 2013, according to a report issued this month by the European Materials Handling Federation (FEM). The decrease in production was attributed to a reduction in demand and stagnating exports, according to a report summary published on the website Logistics … Read more
Here’s a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: At an Illinois manufacturer of football helmets and other sports equipment, the more workers “touch” products as they pass through the production line, the slower and more costly the process. Now the firm has created a … Read more
