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MHI announces ProMat 2025 Innovation Award winners


Last night, at MHI's Industry Night at ProMat 2025, the winners of the annual Innovation Awards were announced.

The winners were:

  • Best innovation of existing product: Concentric | Product: PowerHIVE forklift battery reload system by Concentric; 
  • Best innovation sustainability: GRI Inc. | Product: Sustainable Material Handling Solid Tire; 
  • Best IT innovation award: FiDUS Global |  Product: Pontem Warehouse Control System by Fidus Global; and 
  • Best new innovation: Anyware Robotics  |  Pixmo: Mobile Robot for Truck Unloading & Palletization 

Winner of the Start-Up Pitch Contest was Freespace Robotics. The company showed an AS/RS system that stores and retrieves but also sorts, buffers, stages, and sequences full cases, bulky items, and each picks—all within a single, compact, and efficient cube.

After receiving 234 submissions for this year’s awards, nine independent judges comprised of professionals from the material handling and supply chain logistics industry completed the initial review process. Three finalists were chosen as the most innovative products in each category based on concept, value, and impact. On Monday, March 17, 2025, finalists move onto the next round of judging and will present their unique solutions to a panel of independent judges on the show floor at ProMat 2025. The winners were announced on Wednesday night.

The MHI Innovation Award serves to educate and provide valuable insights on the latest manufacturing and supply chain products and services to ProMat attendees.  ProMat 2025 exhibitors were called to submit a new product, product line, technology or service or new application of existing products or technology that create quantifiable and sustainable results in terms of ROI, cost savings, customer satisfaction, etc.


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