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Cisco-Eagle Announces 2025 Core Values Awards

June 26, 2025
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Cisco-Eagle Core Values Awards Winners for 2025
Cisco-Eagle named its inaugural Core Values award winners in June 2025. These are employee-owners who embody our core values–the principles we aspire to. Those values were established over thirty years ago and remain unchanged since. “They are universal and timeless,” said CEO Darein Gandall. Our founder, Warren Gandall, has often said that he wants to treat his suppliers, customers and employees the way he wants to be treated.

Our values reflect that vision, and so do the 2025 winners of these awards.

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Best Practices for Loading & Unloading Pallet Conveyors with Forklifts

May 20, 2025
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forklift unloading pallets from the end of conveyor line

Loading and unloading pallet conveyors with forklifts is an everyday, all-day task.

Done right, it’s fast and efficient. Done wrong, product damage, collisions, injuries, and workflow bottlenecks happen. I’ve seen it in dozens of warehouses, even in highly automated operations, and most of them tend to bridge the shipping dock and the end conveyor lines with forklifts (these days, AGVs and AMRs often do this work). Pallets are large, heavy and in motion when they’re transported on conveyors. That combination of size, pressure and movement can result in damage or injuries when not properly controlled.

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Evaluation: Pallet Rack Storage Density, Access, Safety and Costs

April 24, 2025
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High bay selective rack pallet storage.

Just how many pallets can you store in a 100′ x 100′ area? It can range from not that many–X with selective racks that let you pick or place any pallet at any time–or “Y” using incredibly dense, using pallet flow or drive-in systems that restrict how and when you can access pallets. The balance between storage density and selectivity is always critical, but there are other factors in play: cost, efficiency and safety.

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2025 Industrial Trends: What to Expect

February 25, 2025
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2025 Warehousing Outlook

As we mentioned last month, you can expect increases in 2025 shipping costs and fees, particularly in the heavy package sector. What else can you expect in 2025 in the manufacturing, warehousing and distribution spaces?

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Automation and Space: Conveyor Layouts

February 4, 2025
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Conveyor system extends overhead, above a busy shipping area to conserve floor space.

Above: Belt conveyors hang from the ceiling of a busy e-commerce distribution center, feeding shipping operations from a pick module while leaving the space below for traffic and shipping activities.

Conveyor systems transform picking, transport, assembly, and more, but occupy space in fixed positions. Tight layouts, low ceilings, facility structures and equipment compromise and compete for that square footage.   Don’t worry, though—there are creative ways to work circumvent those limitations–and in some cases make them strengths.

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Package Shipping Fee Increases: How to Cope with Surcharges

January 28, 2025
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Loading Docks, Security and Truck Drivers

January 14, 2025
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Truck drivers at the receiving docks of a busy warehouse

Truck drivers often need to enter warehouses when they deliver or pick up shipments. When they do, many warehouses have installed secure driver cages that let the driver into the facility, but not into the building at large. This can seem “driver-unfriendly” because they contain the driver. However, there are good reasons to install them while ensuring drivers have a good experience at your facility.

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Double-Post Pallet Rack Systems: When, Why and How

January 7, 2025
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Pallet rack system with two posts used for each rack bay

Most pallet rack systems are installed with a starter-adder design, which shares a common rack upright between consecutive storage bays. The alternative is a double-post rack system, where each bay has two independent uprights. Most of the time, starter-adder is used because it’s more economical and uses space more efficiently.

Given that it’s costlier and uses more space, why–and where–would you use a double-post design?

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Kevin Harwell Retires from Cisco-Eagle

January 3, 2025
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Kevin Harwell and Cisco-Eagle president Bryan Gauger.

Above: Kevin Harwell and Bryan Gauger

On December 31, 2024, Kevin Harwell retired from Cisco-Eagle after an incredible 33 years of dedicated service. Kevin joined the company in February 1991 and has been an integral part of our success ever since.

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How Many Warehouse and Manufacturing Workers are Retirement Age?

December 19, 2024
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Cisco-Eagle Notebooks

This month, we’re looking at the growth of workers 65 or older, who choose to stay on the job. They now make up 22% of all American workers. How does that affect manufacturing and distribution operations? What can you do to accommodate these workers? Also: more on packaging automation, manufacturing in Texas and more.

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