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Inside the News - 1 Aug 2019 (#934) This week's decision by the US Federal Reserve to cut interest rates for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis is a sign that governments are concerned about a...

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Inside the News - 25 Jul 2019 (#933) If accelerated dealer activity and expansion by manufacturers are a barometer of industry health, things have been going very well for materials handling. Our recent newsletters have been brimming with...

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Inside the News - 18 Jul 2019 (#932) This week's announcement of a joint venture between KION and BMZ is further evidence that lithium-ion is here to stay. It is clear that demand for the new battery technology...

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Inside the News - 11 Jul 2019 (#931) The rental sector is playing an increasingly important role in materials handling. Each week, we tend to include news of a large equipment order by a rental operator and it's...

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Inside the News - 4 Jul 2019 (#930) Sometimes, the focus on equipment and technology masks the human face of materials handling. So, it is refreshing to be able to report on a number of personal aspects of...

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Inside the News - 27 Jun 2019 (#929) While the materials handling world has largely been affected less than other industries by global economic ups and downs, recent developments, like US tariff changes and the looming impact of...

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Inside the News - 20 Jun 2019 (#928) Some people monitor the economic indices to get a handle on the business environment. But if we look more closely at the world around us, we get a much clearer...

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Allan Leibowitz

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Inside the News - 13 Jun 2019 (#927) This week, we saw forklift safety highlighted on both sides of the Atlantic, with National Forklift Safety Day celebrated in the UK for the first time as it marked its...

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Inside the News - 6 Jun 2019 (#926) There was a sobering warning from the World Bank this week, when it noted that the global economy has slowed to its lowest pace in three years. The good news...

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Inside the News - 30 May 2019 (#925) The countdown is on for National Forklift Safety Day which will be marked in the United States on June 11, 2019. That event has come a long way since it...

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