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Once
every quarter Engineered Handling will be publishing a newsletter
detailing some of the projects we completed during that quarter. We
hope this will give you some ideas for your next project. If you would
like a copy of this newsletter e mailed to you please contact Pete
Felkner @
pf@engineeredhandling.com
4th
Quarter 2001 Newsletter
October
22, 2001 Charlotte, NC
(866) RACKGUY Pete
Felkner, VP Operations
Engineered Handling
an 
Design Largest
Pre-Engineered Office
Statesville’s
Mack Molding, a custom injection plastics molding
company, bought a
8,000 square foot, two-story pre-engineered office.
This is the largest office that the St. Louis-based
manufacturer of modular buildings, Starrco has sold in the Southeast. The installation also included a 520 square
foot, single-story, load-bearing shipping office.
Plant
Manager, Joe Carinci, says they are very satisfied with the Starrco
product and the installation process.
Features and Benefits
Ø
$20
per square foot savings over conventional stick building.
Ø
Five
weeks from order placement to installation completion.
Ø
Depreciation
accelerated over 7.5 years instead of 39 years.
The
building also included a break room, conference rooms, quality control
lab, computer room and men’s and women’s bathrooms with showers.
Engineered Handling supplied the
office furniture including cubicle partitions, lateral files, desks
and chairs, as well as bathroom fixtures and lockers.
Importer
Adds Storage Capacity
Blue
Ridge Designs in Deep Gap, NC, importer of decorative accessories and
giftware, added to their Unarco rack storage capacity.
The company increased their carton flow system by 139%, adding
2,400 pick locations, and increased their selective rack capacity by
40% by adding 6,450 pallet positions.
Blue
Ridge Designs President Steve Hoover, inventor of the dancing Santa,
started the business in his garage selling to specialty and department
stores. The company now
offers over 2,000 items and currently has over 250,000 square feet of
warehouse space. All
these spaces are equipped with state of the art material handling
systems from Very Narrow Aisle pallet rack systems to high volume
carton flow systems serviced by rail guided orderpickers.
Michael
Woodruff of Blue Ridge Designs says that the rack is handling their
present needs and that they may need more in the future. Woodruff added, “I was very pleased with the
installation and the turn around,” says Woodruff
.
Prepare
For The Good Times
The
bear market that has stalked us most of this year cranked into high
gear after the evil events of September 11, 2001.
Many market watchers that followed the bumpy market of 2001 had
been looking for a day of capitulation, where stocks would suffer a
precipitous one-day decline. Not
surprisingly that day came September 17, the first day of trading
after the terrorist attacks. The Dow fell 7% - not unexpected and not
necessarily a calamitous economic event.
The
retrenchment in the decade long surge of economic growth is clearly
here which begs the question, “How will your company cope with the
present slowdown and prepare for the recovery?”
One material handling industry trade journal editor warns
against cutting back too much on capital spending,
“Managing solely for the downturn, without anticipating the
recovery, could make it difficult to partake of the bounty when the
economic season turns again.”
Engineered
Handling
designs and sells systems which are intended to
save the customer money. For
example, incorporating conveyors with carton flow rack systems in a
pick module increases efficiency, converting pallet racking from
conventional to narrow aisle layout increases storage capacity without
having to add expensive square footage to the warehouse, and
constructing pre-engineered office systems not only is less expensive
than conventional stick building, but can be depreciated over seven
years instead of thirty.
Market
leaders will continue to look for ways to improve their processes
because
falling behind when the market is down may keep you down when the
market returns. Engineered Handling can help find ways to make your
material handling processes more efficient reduce costs and position
your company for a prosperous future.
