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How to plan your warehouse layout

The Korte Company

For help, consult with racking system vendors early in the design process. The Korte Company prides itself as a green construction company with many LEED-certified projects under our belt. One of the challenges you’ll face when developing your warehouse layout is to optimize racking within the cubic footage of your building.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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The I-69 Corridor serves industry clusters including automotive, defense, aerospace, medical devices and green technology. In 2012, Boston Consulting Group found that more than one-third of U.S.-based Two Class 1 and one local railroad are important parts of the transportation system. Great Lakes U.S.

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Food Processing: Generating Growth for Good Eats

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its access to highways, water, railroad, and cargo airports has made this region of the United States an ideal location for new businesses to succeed. Preferred often brings popcorn here from Nebraska via the railroad. The locally owned, short line railroad company provides facilities for them to unload the corn.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Indiana — More And More Roads Are Leading To “The Crossroads Of America”

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The City of Tell City hosts the Perry County Port Authority (PCPA), which operates the Hoosier Southern Railroad connecting the Tell City River Port to the Norfolk Southern Railroad. It offers logistics services that move goods via barge, rail and truck, providing a critical service to local industry.

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New Mexico Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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To be eligible, the fuel sold must be used or loaded by a common carrier that: After July 1, 2011, made a capital investment of $100 million or more in new construction or renovations at the railroad locomotive refueling facility in which the fuel is loaded or used; or. Certain green industries. Eligible Uses .

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New Mexico Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Certain green industries. Expenditures: Includes a wide range of non-reimbursed expenses such as payroll, consultants and contractors performing work in New Mexico, software, equipment, technical manuals, rent, and operating expenses of facilities. Company eligibility: Companies that manufacture or produce a product in New Mexico.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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states with service to all six Class I railroads, and offers more than 7,300 miles of oil pipeline and 11,200 miles of gas pipeline. Matching funds, both cash and in-kind, will be provided by the Iowa Energy Center, Windustry, IWEA, Wind on the Wires and Wind Utility Consulting. times that of the Nos. and has four plants in Minnesota.