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Following the theme, “Re-Imagine Your Business,” the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA) will hold its 57th Annual Convention from May 5-9, 2012, at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel, Miami Beach, Fla. The convention provides material handling equipment professionals the opportunity to spend four days learning, networking, and discovering resources for their company. The convention […]

Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA), Houston, Texas, announced it has appointed G&W Equipment to represent its three flagship brands—Cat lift trucks, Mitsubishi forklift trucks, and Jungheinrich warehouse products—in the western portion of North Carolina and South Carolina. G&W Equipment, Inc. was founded in 1963 and has been under current ownership of the Mike Sabbagh family […]

Yale Materials Handling Corp., Greenville, N.C., has named William Pfleger president of Yale Distribution. With nearly 20 years of experience with Yale and parent company NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. (NMHG), Pfleger served as the managing director of NMHG Asia-Pacific for three and a half years; managing director of Yale Europe, Middle East and Africa […]

Interroll Automation, Jeffersonville, Ind., released the 24VDC Intelliveyor Belt at Modex in Atlanta, Ga., this week. Based on Interroll’s Intelliveyor Zero Pressure Accumulation Roller Conveyor, the Intelliveyor Belt enables soft goods to be conveyed in a low energy consumption, zero pressure accumulation system. Adding a belt to the Intelliveyor enables users to convey items that […]

Access equipment distributor Absolute E-Z Up (AEUP), Charleston, S.C., has hired Wendy Svoboda as sales manager. In her new role, Svoboda will be responsible for new business development and dealer relations in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Prior to joining AEUP, Svoboda was a senior district manager for USA Today, where she’d worked for […]

At The Rental Show, Equipment Parts Wholesale, Fresno, Calif., announced it has now acquired the equipment necessary to produce decals of all varieties. Decals that can be made include branding, safety, warning, and more for all types of machines. Partnering with Hewlett Packard and taking delivery of the UV flatbed and large format latex printer […]

A prototype of the SJ-63AJ, the latest boom lift introduction from Skyjack, Guelph, Ontario, made its debut at The Rental Show this week in New Orleans, La. With the annual tradeshow floor opening the day after the Super Bowl, the Canadian manufacturer opted to creatively market its new 63-foot articulating boom lift for the occasion. […]

Four joint sessions and multiple breakout sessions during the two-day Crane & Rigging and Industrial Crane & Hoist Conferences (CRC/ICHC) will offer management-level topics of interest to crane and rigging supervisors, facilities managers, and safety personnel. The safety management conference will be hosted by Maximum Capacity Media, May 23-24, 2012, in New Orleans, La. Event […]

Lenze Americas, Uxbridge, Mass., has introduced the Servo Inverter i700. Targeted for multi-axis applications, the drive system features short cycle times, 32-bit signal resolution and an overload capacity of more than 200 percent. Designed for simple positioning tasks and dynamic, precise, multi-axis applications in handling and packaging machines or robot applications, the i700 single-axis and […]

Mike Gelskey Sr., president and CEO of Lift-It Manufacturing, will again be among the headline speakers when MCM Events presents its second Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) Canada, at the Sutton Place Hotel, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 13-14, 2012. Sling and rigging expert Gelskey was the toast of many enlightened end users when the inaugural […]