MHF Logistical Solutions
800 Cranberry Woods Dr. #450 * Cranberry, PA 16066 *
724.772.9800 or 877.452.9300
www.mhfls.com * info@mhfls.com

“SMART RAILCARS” TO BE AVAILABLE NEXT YEAR
We will soon be offering railcars equipped with remote monitoring and diagnostic systems that can dramatically improve how you manage your shipments of  hazardous and sensitive cargo. The asset tracking service will feature long-life, battery-operated wireless devices and monitoring equipment that will pinpoint the location and operating status of railcars in use anywhere across North America.  The new service also will improve operational efficiencies at both ends of the shipping process.
Read our news release.

FIVE YARD & FLEXI-DRUM™ OPTIONS CAN EASE LOADING & HANDLING
Our packaging solutions division recently introduced two new flexible packaging options, both designed to ease the loading and handling of a range of hazardous and non-hazardous waste and materials. A new five-yard package is a self-standing container system that does not require lifting or loading frames. It is designed for one-time use as sift-proof packaging for free-flowable solids (see the product specifications sheet). The other new option is our Flexi-Drum™ , a soft-sided package that can replace metal drums. The Flexi-Drum holds more than three times what a metal drum can handle, plus has the added advantages of not requiring decontamination (see the product specifications sheet). Both new packaging products are fully certified, easy to use and may be handled using cranes or forklifts. And both may be transported by rail, flatbed truck, dump truck or marine conveyance. For more information, please contact Ken Grumski, packaging division manager, at 724.772.9800, 877.452.9300 or e-mail him at ken_grumski@mhfls.com.

CUSTOMIZED PACKAGING SYSTEM DEVELOPED FOR FERNALD
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fernald Closure Project in Ohio is a Superfund site that formerly housed a facility where high-purity uranium metal products were processed for military purposes. We were asked to design and implement a customized system to package hazardous cold metal oxides from inside the site’s Silo 3. As part of our exhibition at a nuclear industry conference in the United Kingdom earlier this year, we prepared a case study (written for an European audience, with metric measurements and British spelling) on the project. You can read it here: The Fernald Closure Project

WE WANT TO SEND YOU TO WASTE MANAGEMENT ‘06 IN TUCSON
The annual Waste Management Symposium (www.wmsym.org) held each February in Tucson, Arizona, is a must-do event for leaders of the global radwaste community. Thousands from all over the world attend – and we’d like to help you get there too. All you have to do is make sure you are registered on our Web site’s front page to receive this e-newsletter and other communications. If you are already registered (and if you received this e-newsletter directly from us, you are), don’t worry – you’re still in the running to win two airplane tickets from anywhere in North America to Tucson for the conference. But if you received this e-newsletter indirectly from someone else or accessed it through our Web site, please visit www.mhfls.com to register your e-mail address and other details. And come next February, you may find yourself bound for the American Southwest – on us. (Contest rules and our privacy guarantee are available at registration site.)

REPAIRING THE NEW ORLEANS LEVEES – A PERSONAL STORY
It will take years for the Gulf Coast region and New Orleans to recover from the recent hurricanes and we are there providing logistics, packaging materials and technical services. Our involvement began just hours after Hurricane Katrina struck when we were asked to supply packaging materials for use as sandbags to stop the flooding. Tim Holan, one of our project managers, went to New Orleans to mobilize the operation and supervise the loading and rigging of the bags onto military helicopters.

Read Holan’s first-person account here and also watch his video.

AND FINALLY … A THANK YOU

Readers in the U.S. soon will celebrate Thanksgiving, and at MHF Logistical Solutions, we have a lot to be grateful for – you. Thank you for ongoing support of the company, and for all our friends, our best wishes for the upcoming holiday season.