MHPN - Material Handling 24/7: Readers’ Choice Products of the Year 2021 Winners

Material Handling Product News and Material Handling 24/7 is proud to announce the winners of our 7th Annual Readers’ Choice Products of the Year Awards.

These awards honor the achievements of companies for advances in materials handling systems and equipment within manufacturing, distribution centers and warehouses. Companies were invited to submit the products they felt were worthy of product of the year honors, and MHPN readers decided the winners in 14 categories.

In total, we received more than 1,700 votes in an e-mail survey to our readers. We’re proud to announce our Readers’ Choice Material Handling Product News Products of the Year.

Winners for each Category:

Automatic Data Capture

• MobileDemand - Rugged xTablet T1680 (Winner!)
• SICK, Inc. - SPEETEC: Non-Contact Motion Sensor
• Yale Materials Handling Corporation - Vision Impact Camera
• Pepperl+Fuchs - R20x Series Optical Sensors

Conveyors & Sortation

• EXAIR Corporation - 3 NPT 303SS Threaded Line Vac
• Fives Intralogistics - GENI-Flex™ Modular Solution Irregular Sorter
• MHS - Dual Robot Singulator (Winner!)
• Vanderlande - FASTPICK Goods-to-Person Order Fulfillment System

Ergonomics and Safety

• Yale - Reliant (Winner!)
• Mezzanine Safeti-Gates, Inc. - Hingeless Pallet Flow Safety Gate
• Aero Rubber Company®, Inc - PromoStretch® Custom Printed Rubber Bands
• Janam Technologies - Guardian GT2 Facial Recognition and Thermal Imaging Kiosk

Lift Trucks & Accessories

• Hyster - E50-60XNL Counterbalanced Lift Truck (Winner!)
• HAI Robotics - HAIPORT Workstation
• BYD North America - PMW 20 Pallet Jack
• BYD North America - ECC 27 Battery Powered Forklift

MRO

• Hyster - HYSOURCEParts.com (Winner!)
• BriskHeat - Wet-Area Custom Cloth Heating Jackets
• ABB Group - Ability Remote Insights augmented reality platform
• DuraBelt - O-ring belting

Overhead Handling

• Columbus McKinnon Corporation Intelli-Connect™ Mobile/Mobile+ (Winner!)
• Richards-Wilcox - OveR-Way Conveyor
• Gorbel Inc. - Q and iQ intelligent lifters with G-Force
• Morse Manufacturing - Company Full Line of Ergonomic Drum Handlers

Packaging & Pallets

• Craemer Group - CR4-5 Plastic Pallet
• Craemer Group - TC3-5 Palgrip® Plastic Pallet
• iGPS - iGPS Plastic Pallet
• Aero Rubber Corporation - Sustainable Rubber Pallet Bands (Winner!)

Racks, Shelving & Mezzanines

• Quantum Storage Systems - Clear Tip Out Bin Spinner Unit (Winner!)
• Automation Plus - Rolling Folding Racking Steps
• DACS - Punch Deck Plus decking
• Aigner Label Holder Corp. - Wire•Rac Label Holder

Robotic “Mobile”

• inVia Robotics - Picker Wall and Autonomous Mobile Robots
• Geek+ Robotics - Roboshuttle RS8-DA (Winner!)
• Conveyco Technologies, Inc. - TiltSort-Bot autonomous mobile robot high speed sortation system
• Geek+ Robotics - Robotic system for sorting

Robotic “Piece Picking”

• RIOS Robotic - Workcells for End of Line Packaging
• Covariant.ai - Covariant AI Robotic Putwall (Winner!)
• MHS - Multi-Pick Robotic End Effector
• Inther Integrated Systems - A-frame with PUMA (Positioning Unit Measurement Apparatus)

Supply Chain Software

• ProShip - Multi-Carrier Shipping Software
• AutoScheduler - WMS Integration (Winner!)
• Softeon - Warehouse Management + Execution System
• Mobile Demand - xDIM Mobile

Dock Equipment

• Ancra Systems B.V.- Skateloader Truck Loading System (Winner!)
• BEUMER Group - BG Pouch System Item Sortation and Sequencing
• Systems, LLC - CentraAir® Dock Leveler
• Systems, LLC - Poweramp PR Hydraulic Dock Leveler

Containers Totes and Bins

• ORBIS Corporation - The OpteBulk sleeve pack system (Winner!)
• BEUMER Group - BG Pouch System Item Sortation and Sequencing
• MDI - Plastic Warehouse Tray Solution for Distribution Centers
• Aigner Label Holder Corp. - Tri-Dex for Bins With Label Slots

Automated Storage

• Automation Plus - Pallet Return Device for Low Temperature Use (Winner!)
• Kardex Remstar - Display LED-Navigator
• Honeywell Intelligrated - Automated Storage and Retrieval System
• Kardex Remstar - Proactive Monitoring with Remote Support

View all the 2021 Nominated products.