Material Handling Equipment - Racks, Conveyors, Carousels, Warehouse Equipment & more.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.,
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...>
Winsted, MN - (Dec. 9, 2008) SJF Material Handling of Winsted, Minnesota has announced the introduction of Sure-Pik(TM) Lite Carousel Storage and Retrieval Software. Sure-Pik can be used with any make or model of horizontal or vertical carousel using the original controls or SJF’s Chameleon Carousel Controls.(TM)
Users log in, then use the keyboard or a [...]
World stainless steel production fell by almost 30% year-on-year in the final quarter of 2008, estimates analyst Macquarie Research Commodities. This is the biggest such quarterly drop since 1975, it adds, reflecting the severity of the global turndown and the “desperate measures” taken by stainless mills.
Factoring in this decline in activity, Macquarie estimates global stainless [...]
Steel buyers aren’t showing much enthusiasm for early 2009, according to a poll by Purchasing magazine, since incoming customer orders are down, manufacturing operations are depressed and prices on all raw materials have been collapsing. Though more optimistic than in November, buyers are entering the New Year with little enthusiasm about first-quarter demand or flat-rolled [...]
Entering the fourth quarter, the global economy has been negatively impacted by the crisis in the financial markets. What started out as a seasonal slowdown (due to temporary global market disruptions such as the six-month China Olympics effect and the Middle Eastern religious holidays)
has now been overwhelmed by a worldwide financial crisis that is unique [...]
If you have ever received a quote on pallet racking, any salesperson worth their salt will have asked you if there are any obstructions that you need to be aware of - this includes rafters, sprinkler systems, etc. This video (in addition to being very funny) demonstrates why it’s important to be aware of your [...]
I thought regular readers of this blog might enjoy this article. MMH has recently performed a customer satisfaction survey of lift trucks. They compiled the results into several categories such as overall satisfaction, product quality, value, etc. The results were recently tabulated and briefly listed on their site. The full report will be available in [...]
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