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Michael Romano Title: Chief executive officer, Bastian Solutions; CEO Toyota Advanced Logistics Solutions North America Location: Indianapolis, Ind. Experience: More than 40 years in the materials handling industry.

H Mart, an Asian-American specialty grocer, has partnered with AutoStore, the Norwegian robotics technology company, in collaboration with Bastian Solutions, to introduce a fully automated micro-fulfillment center to support H Mart’s online grocery operations in Carlstadt, New Jersey.

GREENFIELD — Their clients are businesses that know what they need done. They just don’t quite know how to do it. “When you can’t buy something out of a catalog, we design and build it from scratch for our customers,” said Riley Buttry, general manager of custom automation for Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company in Greenfield. “A lot of times, what they’re asking us to do has not been done before.”

INDIANAPOLIS – Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company, will be showcasing numerous products and seminars during this years’ virtual ProMatDX trade show, April 12-16, 2021.

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Though the pandemic slowed customer buying habits in its early days due to uncertainty, for Bastian Solutions, it came back with a vengeance in the last quarter of the year.

“We are very excited to have been nominated as a Best Place to Work in Kentucky. This honor highlights that the culture we have worked so hard to build and maintain is strong and healthy, despite external pressures from COVID-19,” said Aaron Jones, president of Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company.

Bastian Solutions has received ISO 9001:2015 accreditation for its robotic manufacturing facility in St. Louis, Missouri, demonstrating the company’s ongoing commitment to quality.

An Indiana business is desperately searching for employees and has hundreds of open jobs for Hoosiers. The pandemic is causing Bastian Solutions business to boom, but the search for workers is slower than expected. The Indiana Department of Workforce Development said December’s unemployment rate was 4.3%. That rate is way down from 16.9% in April, but higher than March of 2020 by about 1%. Now Bastian Solutions said they have part of the solution, with around 400 open jobs.

Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company, announced today the retirement of CEO, Michael Romano. Romano, a 40-year industry veteran, also served as President/CEO of Toyota Advanced Logistics North America (TALNA) and was a member of the TALNA and Bastian Solutions Board of Directors.

Best known for its ability to identify and track inventory, data capture technologies of all types are being swept into a far more powerful information web. The idea is to use the technology to improve processes through improved deployment of people and assets.

Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company, is excited to announce the addition of Scallog’s mobile order fulfillment system to the company’s ever-growing portfolio of automation capabilities. As an independent integrator, this relationship supports Bastian Solutions' commitment to providing clients with optimal systems that not only meet but exceed operational goals.