Online store Amazon.com and parcel carriers UPS and DHL aren’t the only companies using drones to distribute parcels to consumers. Germany-based Qimarox launched an investigation into the use of drones for palletizing product.
Detectamet Ltd., United Kingdom, launched a detectable plastic product for the food industry. The new Detectable Pallet Wrap offers a less risky means of final packaging for pallet handling in food warehouse storage and shipping.
France's SAVOYE said its Chicago-based subsidiary, SAVOYE Inc., purchased Retrotech Inc., a Fishers, N.Y., firm specializing in the design, installation, modernization, and support of automated material handling systems.
Refrigerated and frozen less-than-truckload transportation specialist
H&M Bay recently turned to Motorola and Franwell, Inc. for an RFID
hardware and software solution.
The vast majority of cold storage warehouses in the United States are large, cavernous buildings with ceilings that are approximately twenty feet high and multiple 12-foot-wide aisles with fork trucks riding in and out of them moving product up and down from the racks.
