The Business of the Year Award

Handling Specialty honoured
Grimsby, ON, Canada
Handling Specialty Manufacturing was recently awarded the coveted Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year Award. Acccepting the award, president Tom Beach said: "We're thrilled to have won. Handling Specialty has been operating out of our South Service Road location for 52 years, and we have built an excellent relationship with the people of Grimsby and our Chamber of Commerce."
Handling Specialty employs some of the world's best and brightest in the engineering and manufacturing industry, creating not only one-of-a-kind lift equipment for a diverse market, but also key operational equipment like manually guided vehicles and precision indexing tables, as well as light- and heavy-duty scissor lifts, he explains.
Beach sees the accolade as "a real indicator of what hard work and a professional attitude can do".

Fuel cells take off
Washington, DC, United States
Businesses of all sizes are increasingly adopting cost-effective fuel cell technology to improve electrical power reliability, increase efficiencies, and reduce carbon emissions of operations, according to The Business Case for Fuel Cells 2015: Powering Corporate Sustainability, a new report from the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA).
Growing sales are helping to bring attention to the range of benefits and markets fuel cells can furnish, with high profile corporations becoming both new and repeat customers. Fuel cells help businesses save money on labour and energy costs as well as conserve water and fuel.
"This report showcases the growing commercial appeal of fuel cells - spanning the entire breadth of our economy including: manufacturing, retail, technology, transportation, telecommunication, healthcare, food and more," says FCHEA president Morry B. Markowitz. "By saving money, reducing emissions, avoiding downtime and boosting efficiency, reliable fuel cells help businesses protect both the environment and the company's bottom line."
The free report can be downloaded here.

Collaboration on container fixing
Hamburg, Germany
MacGregor and Maersk Line have agreed to cooperate on the development of the next generation of container securing systems.
MacGregor, a leading provider of cargo- and load-handling solutions, and Maersk have collaborated on securing systems since the container ship sizes started to grow from feeder sizes to the present ultra-large container ships.
"Maersk Line is the world's leading container shipping company, with operations in all parts of the world. We are very happy to be able to extend our cooperation in the development of our container securing systems," says Leif Byström, senior vice president, cargo handling division, MacGregor.
"I am convinced that this will benefit both parties, as the ship sizes continue to grow with increasing efficiency requirements."
"MacGregor has a long history as a leading supplier of container securing systems. We are committed to offering our customers competitive ocean transportation, and extending our cooperation with MacGregor will contribute to our continued success in this," says Ole Graa Jakobsen, vice president, head of technical operations, Maersk Line.