rollouts
Cool new heat gun: With its cool-touch nozzle and convenient hand-held shape, the
Ripack 2200 heat gun applies shrink-wrap film to pallets in under 90 seconds to protect products during transport and storage. Equipped with a rotating nozzle, even during operation, the heat gun is designed to facilitate precision work.
An exclusive system ensures that the nozzle remains cool during and after use, preventing the risk of burns to people or goods. The included Securipack device ensures
that the gas supply is cut off if the hose breaks, and the user can regulate the power
of the appliance to adapt it to a particular application. (Ripack Sefmat,
www.ripack.com)
LANDOLL CORPORATION
MATERIAL HANDLING PRODUCT DIVISION
1900 North Street · Marysville, KS 66508
785-562-53681 · Fax 785-562-4853
mhpsales@landoll.com
800-428-5655 · WWW.LANDOLL.COM/MHP
Full freight: LeanLogistics, a developer of SaaS
transportation technology and supply chain
services, has introduced GreenLanes, a transportation and freight optimization program
designed to improve sustainability and reduce
empty miles for shippers and carriers across
the United States.
While freight consolidation programs make
efforts to optimize individual shipments, few
organizations have the network volume to
address lane efficiency along with the ability to
optimize multiple shipper demands across
multiple carrier capacities. The LeanLogistics
transportation “cloud” empowers a high level
of collaboration. The propriety algorithms within LeanLogistics’ On-Demand TMS, together
with dynamic supply and demand data from
32,000-plus users and 7,000-plus carriers, give
GreenLanes members preferred buy/sell positions relative to market activity.
LeanLogistics transportation managers determine opportunities for round trips, continuous
moves, and what the company calls “fractional
dedicated truckload” moves. The solution is engineered to enable shippers to obtain the best possible service and value from carriers, while carriers
operate at optimum capacity. In most cases, there
is a reduction of empty miles from 15 to 20 percent down to 3 to 5 percent, the company says.
(LeanLogistics, www.LeanLogistics.com)
Scan intensive: Sick has introduced the CLV650
bar-code scanner with autofocus technology
and the CLV640 bar-code scanner with dynamic focus. These new bar-code scanners augment
Sick’s CLV600 family of flexible and easy-to-use
1D bar-code scanners.
With a simple setup
process and flexible
data handling capabilities, these scanners
are suited for high-performance bar-code
reading applications in the material handling and
logistics markets.
The CLV650 and CLV640 are compact bar-code scanners that use proprietary SMART
(Sick’s Modular Advanced Recognition
Technology) code reconstruction algorithms
and high-performance microprocessors,
enabling them to read damaged and dirty bar
codes. The CLV650’s autofocus feature, dis-tance-measurement technology, and engineered optics give it an advantage in applications where space is limited and large depth of
field is required. The CLV640 is a cost-effective
option for reading high-density codes and for
providing increased depth of field in applications requiring an external input to change the
focus position. (Sick, www.sickusa.com)
