BT Products, of Mjölby, Sweden, has tripled forklift production over the past 15 years with no change in employee numbers, a business-to-business news provider said.

An Esmerk report said BT tripled production volume from 1990 to 2005, and aimed to increase its production capacity from 40,000 units to 60,000 units for 2006 to 2010 "without significant change in employee numbers".

BT Industries AB group information co-ordinator Ingrid Gyhagen would not confirm the report.

The BT Group celebrated its 60th anniversary in April. A part of Toyota Industries Corp, BT has nearly 9,000 employees, seven production sites in four countries and annual sales of SEK15 billion (USD1,968 million).

Esmerk, founded in Finland in 1975, is a news provider that produces abstracts of articles from international news sources in more than 130 countries. It is a subsidiary of the Helsinki-based media group SanomaWSOY.