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This is issue #79 - 17 October
2002 of the weekly newsletter for industry
professionals.
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Today marks the beginning of Forkliftaction.com
Newss latest editorial service, Fork Talk, with the first
article from the Fork Lift Truck Association of the United
Kingdom. This new column is available for non-profit forklift
and related industrial associations to publish news and
technical articles which may be of interest to the wider
Forkliftaction.com community. If your association would like
to take advantage of this free service, contact our chief
reporter, Damien Tomlinson, by emailing
news@forkliftaction.com.
Welcome to all
Forkliftaction.coms newest members, including those from the
following companies: Richmatt Materials Handling in Malaysia,
Ravenol in Russia, Hansler of Canada, Crown Equipment of the
USA, Linde AG of Germany, Gough & Gilmore Holdings of
Australia, Perkins Engines of the United Kingdom, Still Italia
of Italy, D Nagata Co of Japan, Hyundai of South Korea,
Auto-Trade Engineering of Singapore, TVH of Belgium, Taipei
Trading of Taiwan and P&O Nedlloyd of the
Netherlands.
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1.
FINNISH PLAYER LANDS FIRST EXPORT DEAL 
TAMPERE, Finland
Niche container
handler manufacturer Oy Meclift Ltd has completed its
first export deal, delivering two of its innovative
ML3012R reach stackers to the Port of Beira in
Mozambique.
Meclift general manager Keiji Kroger
told Forkliftaction.com News that the deal, valued at
EUR400,000 (USD391,380), was sealed after meeting the
operations manager of Conelder de Mozambique, the
countrys port authority, in Finland last year. Delivery
time for the order was one year.
The ML3012R is
the sharpest-turning (5490-millimetre turning radius)
and narrowest (2850 millimetres) reach stacker on the
world market and, with a 39-tonne gross weight, is
designed to be hoisted into ships to move containers on
deck.
Running a seven-litre Deutz BF6M engine
through a Clark 3600 transmission, the machines can lift
30 tonnes up to 1200 millimetres high on their
2200-millimetre long forks.
Mr Kroger said
Meclift, which was established in 1993, was now looking
for distributors and sales agents around the
world.
To see two pictures of the new Meclift
ML3012R, click here.
- Meclift website -
2.
LINDE WINS VIAMAX SOUTH AFRICAN DEAL
CITY DEEP, South Africa
Lindes
Heavy Truck Division has secured a R30 million (USD2.87
million), six-year deal to supply 16 Linde container
handlers to Viamax, a subsidiary of
Transnet.
Beating strong international
competition for the tender, Linde supplied two C360
36-tonne capacity, three-high laden container handlers,
six H160/200 general purpose forklifts and eight C4230
empty and laden reach stackers with 42-tonne capacities.
The contract was an outright purchase, though Linde
technicians will service the machines at Viamaxs City
Deep and Rosslyn locations.
Viamax executive
director Malcolm Yeomans said the Linde machines
replaced existing Kalmar and Tantusi units.
The
new equipment will streamline Transnets container
handling operations and significantly enhance the
organisations efficiency, particularly the speed with
which various tasks are conducted, he
said.
Linde sales and marketing director Adrian
Clayton said the new machines would join an existing
fleet of Linde machines at the Port of
Durban.
We are delighted to be able to
complement the existing Linde fleet with the latest
container handling equipment, and look forward to
continuing our excellent working relationship with
Viamax, he said.
- Linde Heavy Truck
Division website -
3.
FORK TALK - FORK LIFT TRUCK ASSOCIATION
LASHAM, United Kingdom
Thanks to its
pivotal role in the materials handling industry, the
Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) is able to share a
cautionary tale which might not otherwise have come to
light.
A very reputable United Kingdom company,
which has asked not to be named, reported an incident
involving the sudden breaking of a chain on one of its
seven-tonne forklifts.
More alarming still was
that the chain was less than 18 months old, and no
advance warning of a problem had been detected, despite
the companys extremely rigorous, six-monthly inspection
program.
Using specialist sonic equipment, tests
on this and six similar forklifts identified further
horrors: two faulty chains and 31 broken pins. None of
the damage was visible to the naked eye.
The
company concluded that forklifts operated in harsh
conditions - over rough and rutted ground on solid
tyres, constantly carrying maximum load and regularly
subjected to shock - would need additional and more
thorough checks.
The company let the FLTA know
about the problem so others using forklifts in tough
environments could be made aware of the
danger.
Highly-sensitive electronic instruments
can be used to detect hairline cracks and other
imperfections in situations like this, said FLTA
chairman Brian Warbrick.
We will be delighted to
pass on further information to anyone inquiring, and
would like to thank the company concerned for contacting
the FLTA and allowing us to bring this issue to peoples
attention.
As part of its service to the
materials handling industry, the FLTA runs the Safe User
Group, which provides information on safety concerns,
technical explanations, common-sense interpretation of
legislation and a helpline.
For more information
on the Safe User Group and the range of other services
provided by the FLTA, visit www.fork-truck.org.
Fork Talk
is a new Forkliftaction.com News editorial service
available to non-profit forklift and related industry
bodies around the world. If you would like to have your
associations news included in this column, email news@forkliftaction.com.
4.
**ADVERTISEMENT** FOR SALE - NEW MANITOU MA470
ROUGH-TERRAIN FORKLIFT
~ Heavily reduced price - will deal in
any major world currency
~ Must be cleared - surplus
to requirements
~ Perkins diesel hydrostatic 4-wheel
drive
~ 7000kg capacity
~ Elecar triplex mast -
6700 mm (264 inches)
~ Full tapered forks for lumber
or timber use - 1200mm (48inch)
~ Sideshift and fork
positioner
~ Unit has only logged 72 hours
~ Full
new machine warranty available
~ FOR MORE INFORMATION
please contact: Larry Farquhar, Atlantic Material
Handling, Canada. Phone: +1 506 333 1902, fax: +1 506
652 9147, or email: larryf@atlanticrentals.com
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Atlantic website -
5.
FORKLIFT-MOUNTED SWEEPING ATTACHMENT
UNVEILED
SUTON, United Kingdom
Sweeping
attachments manufacturer Gurney-Reeve & Co Ltd has
extended its range with the Mudmaster Junior, an
engine-driven, forklift-mounted sweeper.
Power
for the implement's 1.5-metre sweeping width is provided
by a 12-horsepower petrol engine, according to a
Farmers Weekly report.
Swept material is
collected in a hopper and emptied by tipping the unit
forward, preventing collected waste being blown back
towards the operator, and enabling safe
cleaning.
The Mudmaster Junior comes with a
140-litre water tank and sprinkler system. Caster wheels
allow the unit to float within the fork tynes to smooth
uneven surfaces.
- Gurney-Reeve
website -
6.
FLEXI DEBUTS IN THE LAND OF THE RISING
SUN
TOKYO, Japan
Flexi, the clever
narrow-aisle forklift manufactured by Narrow Aisle Ltd
of the United Kingdom, this week debuts at Japan's
Logis-Tech exhibition in Toyko.
Tailift Co Ltd,
Narrow Aisles sole agent for the Far East, Asia and
Australia, and Narrow Aisle marketing manager Helen
Bishop are exhibiting the Flexi.
The Japanese
debut continues the Tipton companys expansion of the
product, which it claims can increase warehouse capacity
by 30 percent. The machine can work in very narrow
aisles, lift up to 11 metres, carry loads of up to two
tonnes, and work inside and outside.
- Narrow Aisle
website -
7.
FORKLIFT CAUSES CHEMICAL SPILL
MELBOURNE, Australia
Eight people
were hospitalised after a forklift caused a chemical
spill last week.
Fire crews were called to Booth
Transport after a spill of organic phosphorous
pesticide, according to the Herald Sun newspaper. Fire
inspector George Benham said a forklift ruptured three
20-litre drums of the toxic chemical.
Ambulance
officers and firefighters "decontaminated" 13 people in
chemical showers, but eight were hospitalised for
specialist treatment.
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