80th anniversary for the Materials Handling Engineers Association
Peter Webster, former President (2001) and then Secretary (until December 2017), gives his thoughts on the Materials Handling Engineers Association’s purpose and future and reflects on his own relationship with the association. “The MHEA was formed in the late 1930s by a group of like-minded businessmen to tie together their commercial interests and to enable buyers to see them all together. During the war years, the effects of the Blitz inevitably brought about plenty of building work and a raft…