{"id":5122,"date":"2018-06-14T06:45:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T06:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2018-06-13T10:17:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:17:47","slug":"lummus-acquires-carter-control-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/lummus-acquires-carter-control-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Lummus Acquires Carter Control Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lummus Corporation<\/a>, the parent company of System Solutions of Kentucky (SSK) and Lummus<\/a>, leading solution and equipment suppliers to the intralogistics and cotton gin industries, has acquired Carter Control Systems (CCS), a tier-one provider of automated material handling to the US Postal Service as well as an integrator to parcel and e-commerce customers.<\/p>\n

Lummus<\/a> is strategically expanding into new industrial markets to drive digital transformation through automation. The company\u2019s Louisville-based intralogistics business,\u00a0SSK, is an equipment provider as well as a turnkey project integrator with project scale capacity of up to 100 million dollars.<\/p>\n

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Lummus Corporation is a supplier of machinery and replacement parts for the cotton ginning industry.<\/p><\/div>\n

Duane Glass, President of\u00a0Carter Control Systems, elaborates further on this announcement stating: \u201cSince being founded 40 years ago, CCS has evolved from a controls house supporting the U.S. Postal Service, to developing our own conveyor line and providing fully integrated systems, and most recently, we have had great success with robotic system integration. The acquisition by Lummus<\/a> will help us scale into larger projects in both the postal and e-commerce markets, as well as provide the capital to even further developments in robotics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lummus Corporation, the parent company of System Solutions of Kentucky (SSK) and Lummus, leading solution and equipment suppliers to the intralogistics and cotton gin industries, has acquired Carter Control Systems (CCS), a tier-one provider of automated material handling to the US Postal Service as well as an integrator to parcel and e-commerce customers. 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