Material Handling

Material Handling

By Lance Winslow

If you have ever been to a seaport it is a busy place with heavy cranes and material handling equipment everywhere. Containers lined up sometimes 6-8 high, it is a scary place for some but for a material handling equipment supply and services company it is a dream come true.

Those containers represent World Trade; US trade deficit and the hopeful economies of many third world nations busy trying to fulfill the needs of our economic powerhouse and strong middle class base. This is why a material handling equipment and supply services company salesman is in heaven near such waters.

What a salesmen, so since I was not actually buying lights, I bought him a cup of coffee to pick his brain. I asked him how do they light up such large Seaports and do you have an energy efficient lighting that uses no power source? He said; “Oh, we have all types of energy efficient bright lights that can light up a stadium, how many do you need?” Not bad I thought for a material handling equipment and supply specialist and consultant, who would have thought?

Well, let me tell you what I told the material handling supply and equipment consultant. You see, by placing large sandwich sheets around the port where you want the light, which are specially designed with a taunt film on the vibration side and small copper lined tubes, hundreds of them running perpendicular to the sheets, with magnets inside bouncing back and forth. With hundreds of thousands of lights hooked up in a composite format it will light up the roadways and seaport storage yards and since the lights can shine down on the yards marked roads it would be like daylight without the light pollution associated with street lights in large ports, yet the same or better light for those working. We must have proper lighting at our seaports for security in case the power goes out.

Currently this technology is being used in those little flashlights you see advertised on television that you shake and they light, but you never need batteries. Let there be light, thru vibration energy and there was, the whole seaport lit up like a Christmas tree.