alliances
Hytrol Conveyor Co. and Beumer
Group, two leading companies in the
material handling industry, have developed a strategic alliance to provide sortation solutions in North and South
America. This alliance brings together
two best-in-breed technologies in conveying and high-speed unit sortation.
… Tognum America has installed a
TGW automated material handling system in its new MTU Parts Logistics
Center for North America, located near
Detroit. … Foodservice distributor Ben
E. Keith Foods has selected TZA’s
ProTrack Labor Management Solution
to boost labor efficiency and manage
costs across its distribution network. …
Gehl Foods Inc. of
Germantown, Wis., has
selected Westfalia
Technologies Inc. to
design, build, and
install high-density
automated storage and
retrieval systems with
the Savanna.NET Warehouse
Management System software in the
company’s 300,000-square-foot warehouse. … The Children’s Hospital-Colorado has installed three 52-foot-
long horizontal carousels from Kardex
Remstar in its stockroom. … RedPrairie
Corp., has been selected by Wiggle, the
U.K.’s leading online cycle shop, to provide a warehouse management system. In additional, Big Sandy
Superstores has chosen RedPrairie
Merchandise Management to help
optimize core business operations,
including merchandising, inventory
management, customer service, and
warehouse management. … Fanuc
Factory Automation (FA) America, the
world’s largest manufacturer of computer numerical controls (CNC), and
Wynright Corp., a designer of intelligent material handling systems, have
teamed up to automate and optimize
Fanuc FA America’s CNC system inventory management.
GEHL FOODS INC.
BNSF breaks the
CapEx bank
Just days after Union Pacific Corp. announced the biggest annual capital expenditure (CapEx) budget in U.S. railroad his- tory, its rival in the West bettered it.
On Feb. 1, BNSF Railway Co. announced a planned 2012 capital
budget of $3.9 billion, $400 million above its 2011 capital spending and
$300 million more than the amount budgeted by Union Pacific.
Fort Worth, Texas-based BNSF, which is privately held and part of
Warren E. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway empire, said it would spend $2.1
billion on improving its “core network and related assets.” An additional $1.1 billion will be spent on locomotive, freight car, and other equipment acquisitions, BNSF said in a statement.
On Jan. 30, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) announced
that the seven largest freight railroads operating in the United States—
including the two Canadian rails with U.S. networks—collectively plan to
spend a record $13 billion in 2012 on capital expenditures. Last year, the
rails spent an estimated $12 billion on capital improvements, AAR said.
Union Pacific Corp., BNSF’s rival in the Western United States, plans to
spend $3.6 billion this year. ;
—M.S.
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