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This is issue #93 - 05 February
2003 of the weekly newsletter for industry
professionals.
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1.
MORE SACKINGS EXPECTED IN JUNGHEINRICH CONSOLIDATION
PLAN 
HAMBURG, Germany
Jungheinrich AG
will continue to improve its competitiveness and
business results by restructuring its production plants,
the company says.
Subject to board approval this
month, Jungheinrich will combine production of electric,
diesel and LPG forklifts at its Moosburg, Germany, site,
where the companys warehouse system and battery
electric forklifts are currently produced, creating a
centre capable of producing 15,000 forklifts a
year.
The planned restructure would see the
gradual phase-out, by mid-2004, of Boss Manufacturing
Ltds IC forklift plant at Leighton Buzzard in the UK,
which had produced negative results since being taken
over in 1994.
Efforts to operate the plant on a
cost-covering basis are showing progress, (but) the
plant still fails to make a positive contribution to the
group, and no such contribution is assured in the long
term, Jungheinrich said in a statement.
The
closure would affect 180 employees at the UK site, but
talks with companies around the Leighton Buzzard site
would occur with a view to transferring
employees.
Jungheinrich said the orientation of
its sales organisation in 2001 and 2002 to direct sales,
rather than using distributors, had been a
success.
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Jungheinrich website -
2.
ROCLA SALES UP TWO PERCENT, BUT PROFIT
DIVES
JARVENPAA, Finland
The Rocla Groups
2002 consolidated net sales for 2002 increased two
percent over the 2001 results to EUR89.5 million
(USD96.5 million).
Rocla, presenting its annual
financial figures on January 30, reported consolidated
operating profit EUR700,000 (USD754,880), compared to
EUR5 million (USD5.39 million) in 2001.
The
company said operational profit was impaired by a
EUR2.2 million (USD2.37 million) loss incurred by Danish
subsidiary Rocla A/S, and the subsequent depreciation of
goodwill. Rocla announced in January that it had
initiated an investigation into the financials of Rocla
A/S.
Roclas warehouse truck sales finished at
EUR69.6 million (USD75 million), compared to the 2001
result of EUR72.9 million (USD78.6 million), due to
lower demand, which forced a slow-down in production at
Jarvenpaa. Net sales for the automated guided vehicles
segment grew to EUR19.9 million (USD21.46 million),
compared to EUR14.6 million (USD15.7 million) in
2001.
Roclas workforce fell slightly from 463
employees at the end of 2001 to 459 at the end of 2002,
of whom 115 worked outside Finland.
- Rocla website -
3.
TOYOTA SETS SIGHTS ON SUCCESS
KARIYA, Japan
Toyota Industries
Corporation is hoping to achieve domestic forklift sales
of 28,200 units in 2003, a four percent increase on its
2002 figures.
Toyota last year posted sales of
27,119 units, a slide of 6.3 percent from the 2001
level, according to a Jiji Press article.
The
company said it hoped to command 42 percent of the
Japanese market in 2003, an achievement which would
surpass its previous high of 41.2 percent, set in
2002.
Toyota predicted the Japanese forklift
market would grow 1.7 percent to 67,000 units in 2003,
despite the market shrinking 7.5 percent to 65,888 units
in 2002.
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5.
PROMAT 2003 OPENS FEBRUARY 10
CHICAGO, United States
More than
40,000 materials handling industry professionals from 80
countries are expected to visit Promat 2003, which opens
in Chicago on February 10.
Staged by the Material
Handling Industry of America, the four-day event has
attracted more than 650 exhibitors.
The promoters
say it is the only international show of its kind in the
US this year.
Promat 2003s exhibits are
separated into four solution centres: the centre for
equipment, components & manufacturing
solutions;
the centre for information technology
solutions;
the centre for fulfillment & delivery
solutions; and
the centre for assembly logistics
& support solutions.
Industry experts will
lead educational sessions focusing on issues facing the
world materials handling industry, and the latest
materials handling innovations and
applications.
- Promat 2003 website -
6.
CROWN OPENS IN SALT LAKE CITY
SALT LAKE CITY, United States
Crown
Equipment Co has acquired certain assets of Material
Handling Equipment Co (MHE), its Utah representative
since 1969, and opened a factory outlet in Salt Lake
City.
Crown spokesman Dave Helmstetter told the
Enterprise Business Newspaper that the new company,
operating as Crown Lift Trucks, would employ 35 workers,
many of them former MHE workers. MHE president Robert
Clark said he would phase out his firm this
year.
The new facility, managed by David Beers,
will handle sales, rentals, parts and service for Crown
products, and be a dealer for Komatsu and E-Z-Go
machines.
Crown is one of the world's largest
forklift manufacturers. The company, founded in 1945 by
brothers Carl and Allen Dicke, began making materials
handling equipment in the 1950s.
- Crown website -
7.
MOVERS & SHAKERS
LIBERTYVILLE, United States
Daniel
Reilly has been appointed president of Carer North
America, a new subsidiary of Carer, the Italian
manufacturer of counterbalance electric
forklifts.
Carer chairman Angelo Gaetani said Mr
Reilly, former vice-president of the Material Handling
Distributors Association (MHEDA) and editor of Material
Handling Business magazine, was a great addition to the
company.
Dan Reilly is well known and respected
throughout the industry. Among his primary assignments
will be to represent Carer in establishing a network of
independent distributors in North America, which he is
well qualified to pursue, he said.
- Carer website -
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9.
MANILA DISTRIBUTOR TARGETS BETTER SALES
MANILA, Philippines
Greenland
Commercial & Forklift Corporation (GCFC), the
Philippines exclusive distributor of Nissan forklifts,
aims to more than double its sales this
year.
Following a major reorganisation late last
year, GCFC has embarked on a strategy to increase its
market share, said operations and marketing manager
Ferdie Sia.
As part of the strategy, the company
had merged its sales teams with GLC Forklift Inc, the
marketing arm of GCFC, and added five more sales staff,
making a total of 15.
Mr Sia expected a big
demand for Nissan forklifts from manufacturing and
shipping companies in the Visayas and Mindanao
regions.
We would also focus on spare parts and
services to better serve our clients, he
said.
Since winning its exclusive Nissan
distributorship in 1997, GCFC has sold more than 437
Nissan forklifts. The 2003 target is to sell 94
forklifts, compared to the 38 machines sold in 2002. The
company has been selling spares and performing
mechanical services for more than 25 years.
10.
FORKLIFT THIEF LOCKED AWAY
NEW GLASGOW, Canada
A Nova Scotia
man who has been convicted of stealing a forklift and
leading police on a foot chase will serve two years in
jail.
Walter Cameron, of Westville, 31, pleaded
guilty to the theft, carrying a gun, assaulting police
and breaching probation after he stole the forklift from
a rail-car plant and drove it into a ditch last June, a
Broadcast News report said.
He then led police on
a foot chase and, armed with a rifle, fired several
shots at officers, who eventually cornered
him.
Forkliftaction.com understands the stolen
forklift was not a rough-terrain model.
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11.
EUROPEAN BIENNIAL LOGISTICS EXHIBITION
2003
Paris, France
11th, 12th, 13th &
14th March 2003
12.
MATEX 2003
Melbourne, Australia
20th,
21st, 22nd and 23rd May 2003
13.
AIRCARGO 2003
Phoenix, Arizona, United
States
9th, 10th and 11th March 2003
14.
MHEDA TRAINING - PARTS & SERVICE
MANAGEMENT
Chicago, United States
14th and
15th Nov 2003
15.
2003 NATIONAL HEAVY EQUIPMENT SHOW
Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
20th - 21st March 2003
16.
QUEENSLAND TRUCK AND MACHINERY SHOW
Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia
Thursday 15th to Sunday 18th
May 2003
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