Akron, Ohio (CNN) -- The Akron warehouse is bustling with activity: Forklifts buzzing across the floor.
The world's biggest auctioneer, which trades everything from Pez candy dispensers to forklifts, turns 10 this year.
It also has the leading position in heavy equipment like forklifts, Whitman says.
The media descended as haunting footage of cattle being jabbed with electric prods and rolled with forklifts hurtled through cyberspace.
All around the trucks, workers wheeled around pallets of the plain brown boxes, some using forklifts, others with hydraulic dollies.
Yellow forklifts were parked, as if resting, in the aisles between them.
Its construction equipment business manufactures excavators, wheel loaders, forklifts and skid loaders.
It also makes quick-charging power systems for forklifts, and its research arm is exploring new technologies such as a compact wind power system.
Bechtel also nudged Al Abadi Group, a construction firm from Basra, to supply manpower, trucks and forklifts to start port repairs before getting proper approval.
The new standards also apply to industrial chargers used to power the batteries of golf carts, forklifts and other heavy-duty equipment and go into effect Jan. 1, 2014.
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But in opening the door to helping them the commission seems to have created a loophole big enough for farmers and industrialists to drive their tractors and forklifts through.
Toyota Industries, known until 2001 as Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (precursor of the auto giant), assembles cars and makes auto parts, forklifts and, as the former name suggests, textile manufacturing gear.
And the list of products potentially affected is long: mowers, tillers, pressure washers, blowers, trimmers, chainsaws, generator sets, mixers, loaders, pump units, backhoes, forklifts, farm vehicles, motorbikes, go-carts, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, inboard and outboard motoboats and heavy-duty trucks.
While GM gave up on the car, AeroVironment kept up its electric vehicle research and development and has been offering EV charging and testing equipment and services to automakers as well as selling a line of chargers for heavy-duty electric forklifts.
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