www.dcvelocity.com JUNE 2014 DC VELOCITY 19
short takes
Echo Global Logistics Inc., a Chicago-based broker, has
acquired One Stop Logistics Inc., a Watsonville, Calif.-based broker, for $37.3 million. … Lineage Logistics, a
warehousing and logistics portfolio company, has signed
a definitive agreement to purchase Millard Refrigerated
Services, a national third-party warehousing and logistics
company headquartered in Omaha, Neb. … A designer
and manufacturer of wood stoves, gas grills, and fireplaces has installed Pentalift loading dock equipment
at its new manufacturing facilities. The project included
several HD hydraulic dock levelers, PS400S truck shelters,
and HFR 32 hydraulic vehicle restraints. Pentalift also
designed and manufactured a custom dock lift for a tire
manufacturer’s research and testing facility in northeast
Ohio. … Railserve has rolled out a new remote monitoring system for its LEAF (Lower Emissions and Fuel) Gen-Set Locomotives that provides real-time mission-critical
performance data to improve safety and operating efficiency. … Invata Intralogistics has launched an expanded
website that serves as a resource for warehouse software
and automation information. … The Reusable Packaging
Association has established a new industrywide committee to set sanitation standards and guidelines for reusable containers used in the food supply chain. … Hy-Tek
Material Handling Inc. has acquired Atlanta-based
Conveying Solutions Inc. and Allied Conveyor Systems.
… OnTrac, a provider of regional overnight package
delivery services, is expanding its operation in Visalia,
Calif. The new facility will consolidate the existing
Fresno, Visalia, and Kettleman City operations under one
roof and will be OnTrac’s largest facility in California’s
Central Valley. … Averitt Express says its newly redesigned website, AverittExpress.com, is the industry’s first
100-percent mobile-enabled website. Every shipping tool
available on the site is mobile-friendly across all types
of devices, including smartphones and tablets. … Ever
Lively, the 16th in a series of Evergreen Line’s L-type containerships built by Samsung Heavy Industries, was christened by Bronson Hsieh, Evergreen Group’s second vice
group chairman, in Korea. … Beumer Corp. has acquired
a majority interest in Glidepath LLC, a designer, manufacturer, and integrator of airport baggage handling
systems. … Crane Worldwide Logistics’ Johannesburg,
South Africa, office, its first African location, is celebrating its one-year anniversary. … Cat Lift Trucks presented
its 10th annual scholarship to Ashley Johnson, who will
study at Texas Tech University. … Dematic, a supplier
of logistics systems for the factory, warehouse, and DC,
has opened a new engineering center in Seattle and has
added more engineering staff to the western region of
North America. … A. Duie Pyle Inc., a provider of asset-and nonasset-based transportation and supply chain
solutions in the Northeast, celebrated its 90th year in
business this past April. … Westfalia Technologies Inc.
has launched a free online interactive benefits calculator
to answer common questions related to the benefits
of automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS). …
CaroTrans, a global nonvessel-operating common carrier and ocean freight consolidator, has expanded its
less-than-containerload and full-containerload services
between the U.S. and France with a direct weekly New
York-to-Marseilles service. … Datalogic S.p.A., a developer of automatic data capture and industrial automation
solutions, has announced a new global advertising campaign: The Vision Is Yours. … Knighted, an Intelligrated
company, will feature scalable order fulfillment systems
and software at the Internet Retailer Conference and
Exhibition. … Forklifts and material handling technology solutions from Crown Equipment Corp. are the
best-performing products on the market, according to
a survey conducted by AGiLE Business Media, publisher
of DC VELOCITY and CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly. …
Interroll, a worldwide provider of products and solutions for internal logistics, has made a contribution to
Georgia Tech’s Supply Chain and Logistics Institute to
support professional education in supply chain engineering. The company also recently established a sales
unit in Portugal. … Orbis Corp., a manufacturer of
reusable packaging, has begun construction on a North
American manufacturing plant in Silao, located in the
Mexican state of Guanajuato. … More than 50 million
dual shipping label/packing slips have been printed and
automatically applied to cartons and packages by Fox
IV’s TwinPrint automated shipping label/packing slip
system. … Clark Material Handling Co. held several activities and promotions to support and promote the first
National Forklift Safety Day on June 10. … Penske Truck
Rental has 85 compressed natural gas (CNG) Freightliner
Cascadia semi-tractors available for commercial rental
use in select markets. The company has also been awarded grants totaling $525,000 from the Mobile Source Air
Pollution Reduction Review Committee in Diamond Bar,
Calif. The grants will help offset the company’s costs to
modify its existing locations in Southern California and
enable it to provide maintenance services on trucks with
engines that run on natural gas.
