Special Report: Business prospects for the materials handling industiy in 1999

摘要

Much like holiday parties, the pace of U.S. business in 1998 was at festive, perhaps even feast-like levels for many in materials handling. Industrial truck wholesale orders may zoom to a new record high of nearly 180,000 units for the year. Conveyor shipments through nine months of 1998 hit $4.16 billion, up from a record total for the same period in 1997 of just under $4 billion.