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Material handling, logistics companies give back to their communities

July 31, 2013
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  • Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. has donated an internal combustion forklift and two specially designed lift truck engines to Vincennes University's Logistics Education and Training Center, which includes a fully functioning warehouse. TMHU is also offering hands-on operator safety training to faculty of the Indiana institution. In addition, TMHU will make a donation to the Arbor Day Foundation for every new 8-Series, reduced-emission diesel-powered forklift sold in 2013.
  • IFCO Pallet Management Services hosted the 3rd Annual IFCO Pallet Management Services Charity Golf Invitational in Las Colinas, Texas. Through the benefit, IFCO and its customers and suppliers raised $60,000 to support the Ryan Palmer Foundation and the Wounded Warrior Project. Among the many sponsors were Yale/Hyster, Penske Truck Leasing, Ryder, Conveyor Experts, and J.B. Hunt.
  • Pizzas 4 Patriots and DHL Express shipped 17,000 pizza pies to U.S. servicemen and women in Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Oman in time for July 4 celebrations. This follows the team's record-setting 2012 pizza delivery, recently confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records. The nonprofit Pizzas 4 Patriots was founded in 2008 by Master Sgt. Mark Evans.
  • Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and The UPS Foundation have awarded 30 Community Tree Planting Grants totaling $150,000 to KAB affiliates for tree planting initiatives in urban and suburban communities.
  • More than 30 employees of Clark Material Handing Co. participated in the Tri-4-Freedom 27-hour triathlon. The two-day event raises awareness about the 27 million people enslaved worldwide, promotes social and environmental sustainability in sports, and financially supports human-trafficking survivors.
  • SDI Intelligrated, a joint venture in São Paulo, Brazil, between Intelligrated and SDI Group USA, has brought three interns from Brazil to St. Louis as part of a scholarship program sponsored by the Brazilian government. Scholarship recipients are primarily students in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
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