NTP Sydney office

NTP Forklifts Australia has won a contract to supply 160 forklifts and industrial vehicles to kitchen appliance company Electrolux Home Products Pty Ltd.

The national contract is for five years.

NTP national sales manager Damien Garvey said the Electrolux deal was "worth millions".

He said NTP would supply 120 1.8-tonne to 2.5-tonne TCM industrial LPG forklifts and 40 Taylor-Dunn electric commercial vehicles. The main delivery points will be to Electrolux factories at Orange, in New South Wales, and Dudley Park, South Australia.

Garvey said 12 forklift companies had competed for the Electrolux tender, which was awarded in late August. The machines will be delivered to Electrolux between January and April 2007.

Garvey said NTP’s factory-direct strategy with TCM and Taylor-Dunn may have won the deal.

TCM forklifts are manufactured at one of three TCM factories in Japan. TCM Corporation has a manufacturing alliance with Hitachi Construction Machinery Company. In the last 12 months, TCM has expanded its global manufacturing and marketing business, setting up TCM subsidiaries in the US, Belgium, China and Bangkok. Taylor-Dunn commercial and industrial vehicles are manufactured in southern California, USA.

NTP has been an Electrolux supplier in the past and Garvey said it looked forward to working with Electrolux to manage its fleet nationwide.

NTP represents the Manitou, Manilec, TCM, Taylor-Dunn, Hytsu and Fantuzzi brands. It has branches in South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.