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Drive-In Storage Rack

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

This article from Material Handling Management Online describes some of the features and benefits of Ridg-U-Rak’s Drive in Rack Style.
Ridg-U-Rak’s drive-in storage rack systems store product on continuous rails. Lift trucks directly enter the rack structure to place and retrieve pallets.
Continue Reading the article at Material Handling Management Online.

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New Shelving Clip Style Guide

Friday, March 6th, 2009

SJF just published a shelving clip style guide for use by anybody needing to identify popular shelving clip styles.  The shelving clip guide makes a good compliment to our already widely used and very popular rack style guide.  This guide features pictures of many major brands of shelf clips including Borroughs, Edsal, Lyon, Penco, Republic [...]

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SJF’s very own Stafford Sterner recently penned an article for Material Handling Management Magazine.  This article gives you 7 real-world, useable tips for purchasing used material handling equipment.
Click Here (opens in a new window) to read the article on the MHM Website, and Leave a comment here if you enjoyed the article.  Let us know [...]

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court entered an order approving bidding procedures for substantially all of the assets of Interlake Material Handling, Inc. and its affiliates. The court also approved the proposed break-up fee and expense reimbursement for the stalking horse bidders for the assets, Mecalux USA, Inc. and Mecalux Mexico S.A. de C.V.,

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The new Chameleon dual control system by SJF Material Handling Inc. in Winsted, MN will provide its users the ability to control multiple carousels with 1 Chameleon controller < more...>

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New MHE Worldwide Market Report Released

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Just  quick heads up -
The new world material handling equipment market report has been released and is now available.  The good news is that it’s predicting a growth in demand of 5% or more by 2012.
From the report:

The world market for material handling equipment and systems is projected to increase more than five percent per [...]

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DJ Products - Ergonomic Material Handling

Monday, September 29th, 2008

I’d like to take a minute to introduce readers of this blog to a friend of mine in the blogosphere and a fellow Minnesota material handling company.  DJ Products is a Minnesota based ergonomic material handling products company whose line of motorized carts is well known in many industries.  They offer a full line of [...]

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Okay - I’ll admit it, this post is a shameless plug for our online store, but I think you’ll agree that these products are both unique and in the right situation, very useful.   So…without further delay - here they are.

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First Annual Online Auction

Friday, August 15th, 2008

ATTN: If you are a person who loves a bargain, this is for you.
SJF.com  in Winsted, is inviting you to bid at their first annual online equipment auction.
Includes  hundreds of items for  home or business
Items like :

wood and metal working equipment.
tools
scales
Shelving
conveyor
forklifts
office equipment
electrical supplies

Many selling for only 10 cents on a dollar.
This is an [...]

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Mills Raise Flat Rolled Steel Prices

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

U.S. Steel has been informing their customers of a price increase on all flat-rolled products.  The increase is $40 per ton ($2.00/cwt) over their existing spot prices.
This puts the Hot Roll spot base at $55.00/cwt ($1,100 per ton), Cold Rolled at $60.00/cwt ($1,200 per ton), Galvanized at $61.00/cwt base ($1,220 per ton) and Galvalume at [...]

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