Suppliers develop, improve lift truck technologies for cold environments.

Everyone hates traffic. It eats up time, wastes energy and emits harmful carbon dioxide. As population and urbanization increase, experts say traffic is only getting worse.

GS1 US announced that 55 foodservice processors, distributors and operators have launched the Foodservice GS1 US Standards Initiative.

While some companies control every aspect of these functional areas, others choose to outsource one or many of them. The trick, of course, is to find the right outsourcing partner.

It was like going to the doctor and then hearing something that you really don’t want hear.

Yet this spring found a different type of doctor addressing leaders at the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses’ annual convention.

For a few days, it was the nation’s largest new vehicle showroom. When the Material Handling Industry Association hosted its ProMat 2009 convention this January at Chicago’s McCormick Place, the event gave 300,000 square feet of exhibition space, in part, to new lift truck technologies.

Let’s face it: the phrase, “’Tis the season” applies to certain holidays but not certain topics. Forklift safety is a year-around, worldwide concern in any industrial setting, but that’s especially true in private and public cold storage warehouses where workers contend with the rigors of a harsh environment all year.