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Automation upgrades reduce sortation system wiring and lower costs

Control Engineering

The Fort Worth, Texas-based company focused on letter and flat sortation until 2007 when it began operating an e-commerce facility that processed polypacks for mailing pharmaceuticals. Courtesy: Foreword LLC, NPI, Beckhoff Automation NPI was founded in 1977 and released the first fully-automated mail sorting machine the following year.