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Mitch Watkins knows a good thing when he sees it. Watkins Distributing Sales and Service adopted the CooLift Delivery system three years ago and has been running its own in-house comparison with 6-wheel carts ever since. "We wanted to speed up delivery, and get more cases delivered with fewer resources, fewer trucks and fewer people, it just speeds up the whole process.” said Watkins

Lift'n Buddy (liftnbuddy.com) is the revolutionary mobile lifting device that combines the best of a standard two-wheeler's durability and functionality, with automatic lifting and lowering capabilities. Lift’n Buddy was the recipient of the 2012 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards for Technology Design as well as the Edison Award, Lift’n Buddy was recognized for new product innovation, in the category of Industrial Design Tools. The Lift'n Buddy has been designed with proper ergonomics and safety in mind for any person and any moving and lifting job. These mobile lifting devices, fabricated of durable, lightweight, extruded aluminum, help companies avoid the exposure of employee injury, litigation, and workers’ compensation claims.

The Rotatruck Self Supporting Hand Truck is a revolutionary hand trolley that supports the weight of the load so operators do not need to bear the weight. It reduces the risk of workplace injuries caused by manual handling tasks and directly improves productivity. The Rotatruck, also known as the RotaDolly is a self-supporting Supporting Hand Truck which won a Work Cover Safe Work Award for the best solution to an identified workplace health and safety issue.

Lift’n Buddy http://liftnbuddysafety.blogspot.com/ is talking workplace safety. According to Ergologistics (makers of Lift’n Buddy), "Make-It-Safe Monday” is a series on safety in the workplace.

Last week at PACK EXPO in Chicago, Seegrid Corp. held a press conference lead by Michael M. Hasco, Chief Growth Officer. Hasco explained, “Each company in the printing and packaging industry faces its own unique challenges, but the industry overall faces similar challenges. These challenges include the need to exceed customer demands, cut costs, improve safety and reduce waste.”

Antron is always looking for new and better ways to improve their production process. This helps keep them at the forefront of best practices in the industry and allows them to provide the best service possible for their customers.

For Antron Engineering & Machine, contract manufacturing is about being able to deliver a wide range of services in the right combination to produce the quality products their clients expect. Antron Engineering is uniquely qualified to bring together different elements of design, production, assembly and testing as necessary for every project.

Applications for the Rotacaster range from material handling equipment (hand trucks, trolleys, dollies, carts, skates) to shopping carts and luggage; from conveyor transfers, pipe rollers, and other inverted applications to robotics and patient lifts in medical settings. Rotacaster just released the latest newsletter about the omniwheel. The last issue focused on the Rotatruck; the newest issue focuses on what powers all materials handling solutions…the aptly named Rotacaster. The newsletter includes special offers which include a 50% discount on the 125mm ROTACASTER.

Rotacaster Wheel Limited is an Australian company with a focus on innovative product design. Rotacaster is a patented multi-directional wheel quickly becoming the alternative to the swivel caster. The Rotacaster is a sturdy, robust wheel, adaptable to a vast array of applications and it overcomes many of the limitations associated with the traditional swivel caster wheel.

American Packaging Corporation, the leader in full service flexible packaging, is a finalist in the second annual MH&L’s (Material Handling & Logistics) Innovation Awards.

Pittsburgh-based Seegrid Corp. www.seegrid.com, is the leading Robotic Industrial Truck manufacturer worldwide; industrial robots are creating more jobs in warehousing and manufacturing facilities. The company has recognized the economic change in manufacturing. There is a strong increased demand for driverless industrial robots to transport goods horizontally without wire, tape, laser or other costly automated guided vehicle (AGVs) systems. These industrial robots are manufactured in America and support American manufacturing and warehousing companies— keeping America at the forefront of innovation and technology.

Rotacaster launches a presence on GlobalSpec. GlobalSpec is the leading specialized vertical search, information service and e-publishing company serving the engineering, manufacturing and related scientific and technical market segments. The company provides its buy-side users with domain-expert search engines, a broad range of proprietary and aggregated Web-based content and over 70+ product and industry e-newsletters that help engineers and related professionals perform their key job tasks with the highest levels of accuracy and productivity.

Lift'n Buddy has created a keg attachment to be outfitted on all units universally. The keg attachment will to adjust to and tightly secure a keg. Aaron Lamb founder of Ergologistics emphasized, “It will provide the same security when lifting items from 5 gallon paint containers all the way up to oil drums.” This is new product offered by Ergologistics, makers of Lift'n Buddy, the recent Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation award winner.

BADBOY Blasters, a family-owned company that sells sand blaster machines and soda blaster products, is opening a brand new facility to focus on custom products. Along with the specially ordered products, BADBOY will also offer non-custom goods, as well. It is worth mentioning that items such as the welded cabinets are 100% American made.

Back in 1947, Magline, Inc. was founded to “make things out of magnesium,” because products made from magnesium would offer unrivaled strength and lightness. That was a pretty forward-thinking idea back then, and paved the way to help people do their jobs more safely, with greater productivity, and with increased versatility.

The Horlick Company a leader in the manufacture of motor-generator sets for both frequency conversion and load-isolation announces the successful completion of an army contract to overhaul and rebuild two motor generators for the Letterkenny Army Depot.

Rotacaster load hook is the best way to secure beer-kegs, LPG cylinders (both large and small), pails, canisters, and buckets to the curved back Rotatruck. Made from heavy duty gauge material, the load hook is easily raised and lowered to secure the load safely.

Lift'n Buddy (http://www.liftnbuddy.com) is the revolutionary mobile lifting device that combines the best of a standard two-wheeler's durability and functionality, with automatic lifting and lowering capabilities. Lift’n Buddy was the recipient of the 2012 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards for Technology Design as well as the Edison Award, Lift’n Buddy was recognized for new product innovation, in the category of Industrial Design Tools. The Lift'n Buddy has been designed with proper ergonomics and safety in mind for any person and any moving and lifting job. These mobile lifting devices, fabricated of durable, lightweight, extruded aluminum, help companies avoid the exposure of employee injury, litigation, and workers’ compensation claims.

The 18th Annual National Ergonomics Conference and Exposition (ErgoExpo), the largest ergonomics event in the nation, will be held at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, December 4 – 7, 2012. Ergologistics, maker of Lift’n Buddy will be participating in Ergo Expo located at booth #614. Lift’n Buddy was just awarded the Wall Street Journal

Mobility of stringent items that is sufficiently large for humans to move threat as a big problem in transportation. The size of the object along with its weight makes it a trouble maker that can only be solved by forklift dealers Vancouver. Forklifts have always been catering such needs of people through their striking design and rigidity in operations that allows them to seep at the base of large objects and then astonishingly lift the same such that the objects can be relocated to some other destination.

Hydrojet announces new tooling manufacturing solutions for industry leaders around the world. The company specializes in prototype tooling and composite tooling from a variety of composites and metals. Designing lay-up tools, Universal holding fixtures and Master molds, Hydrojet has produced tooling solutions for industry leaders including Aerospace.

OZ Lifting Products, LLC has announced that they will be offering a new Hand Winches, which will be available nationwide by the end of the year.

Heinkel Drying and Separation Group now offers second-hand equipment service. As manufacturers of original equipment, Heinkel has a constantly changing range of second-hand equipment available. This equipment is completely disassembled, assessed, comprehensively checked in the Heinkel factory and re-assembled according to the customer’s specific requirements.

SP Industries Inc., a waste handling company focused on environmentally friendly solutions, is happy to announce its Fall Open House to display its new electromechanical compactors and dumpers. The open house is going on now through November 14, and will entail a tour of the SP plant as well as full product demonstrations and prize giveaways. Click on the link for more information on a cart dumper.

A leading contract manufacturing company says that a top level assembly strategy produces financial benefits. John Kauker, Vice President of Antron Engineering, a Massachusetts precision machining company, said that companies save in many ways.