HK Systems, Inc. and AGV Products, Inc. Announce Marketing Alliance.Business Editors MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000 HK Systems, Inc. the leading supply chain software and automated material handling total solutions provider and AGV AGV Automatic Guided Vehicle AgV Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Verbraucherverbände (Germany: Working Party of the Consumer Associations) AGV Automotrice à Grande Vitesse (French high speed train, successor to the TGV) Products who specializes in new and retrofit automated guided vehicles systems, today announce a marketing alliance combining product lines to provide comprehensive integrated material handling solutions. Mike Kotecki, HK Systems Senior Vice President, Sales stated, "This alliance represents our commitment to deliver best fit end-to-end solutions to customers. We are excited to expand our automated guided vehicle product offerings and welcome the opportunity to support AGV Products solutions with HK products including conveyors, palletizers, sortation Identifying objects that are stamped with a bar code and routing them to the appropriate destination. Sortation is typically a high-speed process used in the transportation industry by companies such as Federal Express, UPS and others. See sort and bar code. equipment, storage/retrieval machines and our supply chain software suite, SCM/Enterprise." Mats Herrstromer, President of AGV Products replied, "We are excited about the single source opportunity for complementary material handling products available to us from HK Systems. This relationship will significantly broaden our offering to our client base." The terms of the broad based alliance includes a sharing of each others products and services to provide our customers the best material handling solutions at the most effective life cycle costs. HK Systems, Inc. is a leading total supply chain execution software and automated material handling solutions provider. The company develops, implements and supports integrated solutions for the management of enterprise-wide inventory, distribution, logistics management Logistics Management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet and automated material handling systems. The company also manufactures a full line of conveyors, palletizers, sortation equipment, storage/retrieval machines and automated guided vehicles. HK Systems' solutions enable its customers to implement advanced supply chain strategies to improve customer service, reduce inventory and delivery time and lower overall costs of manufacturing, distribution and transportation. AGV Products, based in Charlotte, North Carolina “Charlotte” redirects here. For other uses, see Charlotte (disambiguation). Charlotte is the largest city in the state of North Carolina and the 20th largest city in the United States. has been supplying automated guided vehicle systems to North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. for over 10 years. AGV Products offers the widest variety of custom and standard automated guided vehicle designs including unit load and fork style vehicles. They have recently announced new warehouse products that include tugger AGVs with capacities to 15,000 pounds and fully automated turret trucks. AGV Products also specializes in the retrofit of existing AGV Systems. Refurbishment capabilities include complete vehicle and system retrofits with state-of-the-art controls and guidance technology. HK Systems' corporate headquarters are located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin For other places with the same name, see Milwaukee (disambiguation). Milwaukee is the largest city within the state of Wisconsin and 25th largest (by population) in the United States. with additional facilities in Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. ; Hebron, Kentucky Hebron is a census-designated place located in Boone County, Kentucky.It is the location of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, which serves Cincinnati and the tri-state area. Geography Hebron is located at (38. ; Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital and second most populous city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Montgomery is notable for its historic involvement during the Civil War, for being the first capital of the Confederacy, and for being a primary site in ; Seattle, Washington; and Toronto, Canada. For more information regarding the company, products and/or services, call 1-800-HKSYSTEMS or visit our website at www.hksystems.com. |
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