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SJF Announces Best Online Rack Price Guarantee

Pallet Storage Racking

SJF Material Handling Inc. has announced the release of its “Best Price Guarantee” promotion on all pallet rack products purchased through the online store at SJF.com. (View the SJF online store at http://www.sjf.com

In business since 1979, SJF is a premier stocking distributor of Meculux / Interlake, SJF Tear Drop and other popular brands of pallet storage racks & rack systems. A nationwide distributor of material handling products for over 30 years, SJF Material Handling is the Nation’s largest stocking distributor of new & used material handling equipment. SJF buys & sells Material Handling Equipment Nationwide.

SJF’s e-store provides shoppers with safe and secure online payment capability utilizing Verisign encryption for Visa, MasterCard and AmEx payment processing. With the addition of it’s low price pallet rack guarantee, the company’s goal is to provide shoppers with guaranteed best pricing without sacrificing the safety & security when buying products online.

View the Best Online Rack Prices.


Announcing New SJF Mobile Website

SJF Launches Mobile Website

SJF Mobile WebsiteToday, SJF announced its newly designed mobile website (m.SJF.com) has just gone live. Users who visit SJF.com from a mobile device will automatically get the mobile version of the SJF.com website.  This new mobile site represents what SJF feels is cutting edge technology – namely, applications and platforms for mobile computing.

Kent Powell, head of the web development team for SJF said: “In developing this mobile application, we had two things in mind.  First was to take advantage of the medium to make contacting SJF as easy as possible from a mobile device.  The second was to provide our users with easy to access tools that they could use in the field that would help them with material handling operations.  These tools would facilitate easy identification and location of equipment they use on a daily basis.”

Kent added, “We feel that we have accomplished both objectives and created an application that makes it easy to contact SJF as well as find information about the products that SJF has become known for.

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Safety Sensing Equipment

Safety Sensing Edges

Sensing Edges

SJF is proud to announce another new addition to our product family – Tapeswitch Sensing Products.

Tapeswitch is a leader in the safety sensing equipment field and provides a multitude of safety sensing products for all sorts of industrial applications including:

Pinch Protection, Obstruction Detection, Collision Sensing, Contact Sensing, Personnel Protection and much more…

These sensors can be used with conveyors, lift equipment, carousels, packaging equipment, or any other equipment that might present a safety hazard to employees.

Tapeswitch products not only include the sensing edge, but also incorporate a 4-wire fail safe controller. Here’s the principle behind the fail-safe system in each and every tapeswitch product:

Pallet Flow Rail Now Available Online

Pallet Flow Rail

SJF has just added Pallet Flow rail to our online store.  This flow rail from 3D Storage systems is the perfect product if you’re looking to transform your static pallet racking into a more dynamic system.  Choose from either steel wheel pallet flow or poly wheel pallet flow rails in both single and dual staggered wheel configurations.

Click to shop for pallet flow rails now.  Currently, 2 and 3 Deep pallet flow are available online, but if you have questions about other sizes of flow racking configurations, please contact an SJF sales representative at 800-598-5532.


New Dock Levelers from Pentalift

Mechanical Dock Leveler

Mechanical Dock Leveler

SJF is happy to announce that we are now offering Pentalift Dock Levelers for sale in our online store. Established in 1983, Pentalift has grown to become one of the leading innovators in the dock equipment field in just 25 years.  With an intense focus on engineering a quality product, Pentalift is a continuing innovator in the field, and we’re glad to offer their dock levelers for sale online.

Choose from Mechanical or Electric/Hydraulic standard pit mounted dock levelers or for those who have no pit (or logistically cannot dig one) check out the edge-of dock models – also available in both mechanical and hydraulic models. [links below]

Mechanical Dock Levelers
Electric/Hydraulic Dock Levelers

Mechanical Edge-of-Dock Levelers
Hydraulic Edge-of-Dock Levelers


Interlake Material Handling Bidding Procedures Approved for Assets

Yesterday, the bankruptcy court entered an order approving bidding procedures for substantially all of the assets of Interlake Material Handling, Inc. and its affiliates.  The court also approved the proposed break-up fee and expense reimbursement for the stalking horse bidders for the assets, Mecalux USA, Inc. and Mecalux Mexico S.A. de C.V., which would be paid in the event that those parties are not the winning bidders for the assets at the conclusion of the bidding process.

The order attaches the approved procedures for other parties to provide competing bids for the assets.  In the event that qualified competing bids are received, an auction is scheduled to be held on March 4, 2009 in Wilmington, Delaware.  Source: netDockets Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Blog