material-handling

The drop in capital-equipment demand was driven by a 4.2% decline in orders for machinery, a category that includes robotics, metalworking machinery and material-handling equipment used in U.S. factories.

Durable-Goods Orders Drop Justin Lahart 2011

SELLERS : Ray Hillenbrand , chairman of funeral services and material-handling company Hillenbrand Inc., and his three daughters.

Little Island in the Big Woods Sarah Tilton 2011

Beumer Group, which makes material-handling and sorting machinery, is seeing "a much bigger improvement than we hoped at the beginning of the year," says sales director Thomas Borghoff

Factories Revive Economy Sudeep Reddy 2010

Beumer Group, which makes material-handling and sorting machinery, is seeing "a much bigger improvement than we hoped at the beginning of the year," says sales director Thomas Borghoff

Factories Revive Economy Sudeep Reddy 2010

Inc., said the tax break wouldn't persuade him to increase investment at the company, whose products include caskets and material-handling equipment.

Businesses See Benefits of Tax Break as Limited 2010

Beumer Group, which makes material-handling and sorting machinery, is seeing "a much bigger improvement than we hoped at the beginning of the year," says sales director Thomas Borghoff

Factories Revive Economy Sudeep Reddy 2010

Steel production fell 61% in the first quarter, compared to the year-ago period, while material-handling equipment fell 56%, motor vehicles and parts dropped off 41% and semiconductors declined 40%.

Sharper Drop Is Forecast for Factory Production 2009

When Cecil Shiver, a 41-year-old owner of a material-handling company in Lake City, Fla., voted for Sen. John McCain, he noticed a group of Sen. Barack Obama's supporters calling out to voters, passing out sample ballots and instructing people how to vote on certain initiatives, he says.

Voters Post Experiences Online 2008

It may also operate material-handling equipment and trailers to support loading of aircraft.

FM 7-85 Chapter 8 Combat Service Support United States Army 1987

Shipyard equipment had begun coming out; lorries picking up the wax that had been dumped back from the fire and wax that was being pulled off the piles, and material-handling equipment.

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934