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  • James F. Lamb, vice president of marketing and sales with Drives Inc. of Fulton, Ill., has been elected the 64th president of the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association. He succeeds Bill Casey, vice president production and assembly systems at SI Systems/Paragon Technologies Inc. of Easton, Pa.
  • Fortna announces the appointment of George Schade to senior storage media engineer. Schade, who will be involved with projects from the initial sales contacts through design concepts and final implementation, will focus primarily on storage media applications.
  • Integrated Warehousing Solutions LLC has appointed Joel Epstein as the company's new chief technology officer (CTO). Previously manager of systems integration, he has been with Integrated Warehousing Solutions for four years.
  • TNT Logistics North America has announced the promotion of Steve M. Gundlach to the position of general manager of its fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) business sector. In his new role, Gundlach will be responsible for new sales growth and continuous improvements in operations within the TNT Logistics FMCG sector in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
  • Schneider Logistics Inc. has announced that Jack Gross has joined the company as vice president of business development. His primary responsibility will be to oversee all Schneider Logistics sales activities as well as Schneider's freight brokerage business.
  • Ralph Petrek has joined Nissan Forklift Corp. as vice president of customer satisfaction, replacing the retired Larry Borre.

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There’s a photo from 1971 that John Kent, professor of supply chain management at the University of Arkansas, likes to show. It’s of a shaggy-haired 18-year-old named Glenn Cowan grinning at three-time world table tennis champion Zhuang Zedong, while holding a silk tapestry Zhuang had just given him. Cowan was a member of the U.S. table tennis team who participated in the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan. Story has it that one morning, he overslept and missed his bus to the tournament and had to hitch a ride with the Chinese national team and met and connected with Zhuang.

Cowan and Zhuang’s interaction led to an invitation for the U.S. team to visit China. At the time, the two countries were just beginning to emerge from a 20-year period of decidedly frosty relations, strict travel bans, and trade restrictions. The highly publicized trip signaled a willingness on both sides to renew relations and launched the term “pingpong diplomacy.”

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