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Brexit opportunities on the agenda at Multimodal 2018

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Brexit opportunities and challenges, developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for air freight shippers, and optimising performance in the maritime supply chain are three of the topics that will be debated at Multimodal 2018.

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Pickle Robot gets orders for over 30 unloading systems plus $50M in funding

Robotics Business Review

Pickle Robot customers are experiencing the value of ‘Physical AI’ applied to a common logistics process that challenges thousands of operations every day,” said AJ Meyer, founder and CEO of Pickle Robot. It uses generative AI foundation models trained on millions of data points from real logistics and warehouse operations.

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Eseye and t42 Revolutionise Freight Tracking with Ultra-Reliable IoT Connectivity

i4.0 today

Eseye, a pioneer of high quality global IoT connectivity solutions, today announced an expansive partnership with t42, a leading provider of real-time tracking, analysis, monitoring, and security IoT solutions for the global container and freight market, as well as electric vehicles. Nobody does IoT connectivity better.” Today Magazine.

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Packer Fastener Celebrates 25 Year Anniversary

Fastener News Desk

The family of companies now also includes Packer Freight – a freight brokerage and logistics company; and Albolt Manufacturing – a manufacturer of specialty fasteners. 2018 An e-commerce platform launched, accepting orders 24/7. from its National Sales department. Packer Fastener opened its Wausau branch.

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Distribution demons: A look at pallet networks

SMMT

Pallet networks are co-operative organisations made up of groups of hauliers across the UK working together to provide next-day freight delivery services. It also means that high levels of vehicle capacity utilisation are achieved, with current vehicle fill at more than 72%, compared with 51% in some road freight sectors.

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Commodity prices rise; engineering resins drop

Plastics News

Strong seasonal demand for bottled water and other beverages played a role in lifting PET prices in 2022, as well as a lack of new capacity and freight and logistics challenges. The JV was formed in 2018 following the $1.1 Even with those declines, North American PET prices finished 2022 showing a net increase of 16 cents.

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Manufacturing PMI® at 52.8%; July 2022 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®

Fastener News Desk

“New order entry has slowed down slightly; however, logistical issues have yet to improve. Beginning in February 2018 with January 2018 data, computation of the indexes is accomplished utilizing unrounded numbers. Many customers appear to be pulling back on orders in an effort to reduce inventories.”