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Show Kenway Gets Bid Laton-Kenway , a Utah-based automated systems manufacturer, has been awarded an $8.7 million contract by the U.S. Army to design de-sign and install an automated material mate-rial storage and control system at the Sacramento Army Depot, Sacramento, Sac-ramento, Calif. THE CONTRACT is the company's com-pany's third in the Army's Depot Systems Command modernization program for maintenance and repair re-pair facilities nationwide. The other Eaton-Kenway contracts were for similar systems at Toby-hanna Toby-hanna Army Depot in Tobyhanna, Pa. and at Red River Army Depot in Tcxarkana, Tex. The three contracts con-tracts total over $20 million. The automated system in Sacramento Sac-ramento will store and handle materials used in the maintenance and upgrading of Army communi cations equipment and systems. Il is designed to improve material control and accountability while increasing the speed of material retrieval re-trieval and delivery. T he system is also designed to improve over-all productivity and provide the Army . with the flexibility to move from a one shift operation to two or three during national emergencies. F.ATON-KKNWAY, founded in Salt Lake City in 1966. employs 700 people at its manufacturing facility in Bountiful and at its headquarters head-quarters in the Eaton Tower near downtown Salt Lake City. With this and other recent contracts, the company is stepping up its recruiting recruit-ing efforts and plans to continue to add personnel over the next lew months. 'The company is a wholly-owned wholly-owned subsidiary of Eaton Corporation, Corpor-ation, Cleveland. Ohio. |