March 2009

Economic Recovery Package Extends Incentives for Material Handling & Logistics Equipment Investment
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provides two important tax incentives for business investment through the end of 2009. The first is a one-year 50% bonus depreciation, which allows you to write off an extra 50% of the cost of your new equipment bought and used in 2009.

The second is a 5-year Net Operating Loss carry back provision for small businesses. This provides an extra year boost in how much you can deduct on capital expenditures like equipment that normally would depreciate over time.

To learn more about these incentives, visit the MHIA website or contact us at MH@us.schneider-electric.com

Solution focus: Making Crane & Hoisting Simple
Schneider Electric offers “out-of-the-box” solutions for Crane & Hoisting applications that increase machine performance, reduce total machine cost and improve time to market. We do this by giving OEMs proprietary application functions blocks to make machine design, fast, simple and reliable. We also provide proven hardware and application support from solution experts that know your business inside and out. The result is a solution that reduces risk, increases safety and reduces maintenance.

Function blocks are available for:

• Monitoring Data Storage
• Wind Speed Control
• Smooth Slewing
• Overload Control
• Load Overspeed Control
• Speed Optimization
• Rope slack
• Anti-sway
• Anti-crab function
• Trolley Synchronization
• Limit switches management

> Learn more about Schneider Electric’s Crane and Hoisting applications and function blocks.

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Contact us: mh@us.schneider-electric.com.

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