Toyota Material Handling has supplied a major lubricant supplier with six new forklifts on lease.

Toyota Material Handling has supplied a major lubricant supplier with six new forklifts on lease.

Fuchs Lubricants, which blends and packs lubricants for the mining, automotive and industrial industries, replaced its five 7-series Toyota forklifts with six new Toyota 8-series machines.

Operations manager Dean Butterworth says Fuchs leased the new forklifts based on the reliability of Toyota forklifts and the service back-up from the TMH branch at Beresford.

Buttersworth says the company prefers leasing forklifts as it enables Fuchs to update its materials handling equipment more frequently to ensure it has modern machines that meet current safety standards.

The six Toyota forklifts include speed alerts, speed limiters and the additional safety of travel and load-handling controllers.

Other safety features of the 8-Series range include Toyota's exclusive system of active stability and operator presence sensing as standard equipment.