MODEX 2012: Seegrid Unveils GC4 Vision-Guided Robotic Stand-Up Forklift

Savings, safety, and productivity are offered by all Seegrid’s Robotic Industrial Trucks. At MODEX 2012 Seegrid announced a product so advanced, it is simple. The unmanned GC4 provides the ultimate in Robotic Industrial Truck automation and flexibility. Built on an off-the-shelf Class I forklift chassis and equipped with Seegrid’s vision-guided autonomous navigation system, the GC4 [...]

Corbi Plastics Fined for Forklift Safety Violations

When it comes to forklift safety, it is essential that operators consider the safe lifting capacity of their machine and the impact of attachments in potentially further reducing capacity and forklift stability. Likewise, far too many companies look to add after market attachments without following regulatory requirements. An Ohio publication is reporting that Corbi Plastics [...]

Crown Equipment Facilities Earn Recognition from National Safety Council

Crown Equipment Corporation, one of the world’s leading forklift manufacturers, has announced that eight of its facilities have received Lift Truck Operator Awards from the National Safety Council for outstanding safety practices. The award recognizes forklift operators for operator excellence in lift truck operations by operating lift truck fleets without recordable or lost time injuries. [...]

Manager of Rona store severely injured in forklift accident

Before doing anything out of the ordinary, be sure to perform a risk assessment. Even for Christmas celebrations. Case in point, the manager of a Rona store in Montreal is in critical condition in hospital after he was severely injured while riding on a mobile lift. The manager, who was dressed up as Santa Claus, [...]

Plug Power Announces New Multi-Site GenDrive Fuel Cell Customer

Plug Power Inc., a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions, today announced that Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) has selected its GenDrive(R) fuel cell products to power lift trucks at three P&G manufacturing facilities across the United States. Plug Power will supply P&G facilities in California, Louisiana and North Carolina with more than 200 [...]

Man crushed to death by 3000lb tortilla oven he was hired to move

A pedestrian working with a forklift operator man was crushed to death after a 3,000lb tortilla oven fell on top of him. The victim had been standing below a fork lift truck when the industrial oven toppled over. I don’t know the details of this case, but it serves as a reminder or the importance [...]

Santa’s warehouse workers go green with fuel cells

Thousands of battery-powered forklifts in warehouses across the U.S. will haul everything from frozen turkeys and cured hams to big-screen TVs and tablet computers this holiday season. A growing number of big-name businesses that operate such warehouses have begun deploying forklifts that run on fuel cells as a way to both save money and go [...]

Fork Lift Vacuum Attachment From Anver Corp. Picks Up Loads Without Hooks, Grabs or Slings

Anver Corporation has introduced a battery-powered vacuum lifter that mounts onto standard fork lift truck forks to let operators pick up flat items from the top with only rubber touching the load. It is ideal for handling all types of sheets and panels that need to be protected from damage which can result from other [...]

Partnership for the development of the European market for hydrogen forklift trucks

Among all the markets for hydrogen energy that of fuel-cell powered forklift trucks is today the fastest growing one. This initiative should lead to the creation of a joint venture based in France. This anticipated joint venture between Plug Power and Axane (subsidiary of the Air Liquide group) would rely on the advanced technology of [...]

Jungheinrich Warehouse Products Nominated for Product of the Year

HOUSTON – Jungheinrich® (http://www.jungheinrich-lift.com), a leading brand of material handling warehouse equipment, has been informed that two of its lift trucks, the EKS 208 order picker and ETV Q20 / ETV Q25 moving mast reach truck, are in the running for Plant Engineering’s 2011 Product of the Year under the Material Handling Systems category. The [...]

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