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This is issue #98 - 13 March
2003 of the weekly newsletter for industry
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1.
NEW GENERAL MANAGER TAKES THE HELM AT SMV
AUSTRALIA 
SYDNEY, Australia
Chris Burns,
former sales and marketing manager with Linde Australia,
has been appointed general manager of SMV Australia,
part of the Powerlift group.
Mr Burns told
Forkliftaction.com News he left Linde last October after
seven years with the company, citing management
changes as a reason for his departure.
After
considering his options, Mr Burns accepted the position
with Powerlift, and travelled to Sweden for training and
to meet SMV executives.
He began working in his
new role, being responsible for all SMV heavy engine
forklift sales in Australia and New Zealand, in
mid-January.
Mr Burns said his first goal was to
raise SMVs profile in the region and lift
sales.
About 170 big trucks are sold in this
region each year, of which SMVs share is about 18 to 20
currently, he said. Im confident we can push this to
30 to 40 machines through attaining a greater market
share.
Established more than 50 years ago, SMV
Lifttrucks AB, based in Markayrd, Sweden, manufactures
forklifts and reachstackers ranging from 10 tonne to 52
tonne capacities. Its production facility can produce
225 machines a year.
- SMV website -
2.
DAEWOO POSTS SECOND PROFIT
INCHEON, Korea, South
Daewoo Heavy
Industries & Machinery Ltd made KRW100.9 billion
(USD81.16 million) in net profit in 2002, its second
consecutive profitable year since its separation from
the Daewoo group in 2000.
Total sales for the
year ended December 31 were KRW1.88 trillion (USD1.512
billion), up 22 percent from 2001. Operating profits
reached KRW157.5 billion (USD126.6 million), up 188
percent.
Daewoo said in a report that a recovery
in the domestic construction market, stronger exports to
China and enhanced profitability through restructuring
contributed to the positive results.
- DHI website -
3.
EMC FORKLIFT PARTS OPENS IN SINGAPORE
JURONG, Singapore
EMC Forklift Parts
Pty Ltd has expanded its Australia-New Zealand operation
into the busy industrial hub of Singapore.
EMC
Forklift Parts Singapore Pte Ltd opened on March 3. EMC
finance director Stefan Marschner told
Forkliftaction.com News EMC had concentrated on
targeting the Asian market for about a
year.
Expanding the Australian operation into
New Zealand was very successful, and Asia was the
natural progression, he said.
Dan Lokeyewfay has
been appointed branch manager of EMC Singapore, and the
company will offer replacement parts for
battery-electric and IC forklifts from its warehouse in
Jurong, the main industrial centre of
Singapore.
EMC general manager Peter Milliken
said EMCs experience in configuring the New Zealand
operation helped it prepare for the latest expansion,
but the culture and business customs in Singapore took
some study.
We are very aware that, to do
business in Asia, you must understand the local industry
and culture. We feel our product range and local
management experience will offer the industry something
unique, he said.
The Marschner family
established EMC Forklift Parts Pty Ltd in Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia, in 1978.
- EMC website -
4.
MORE KALMAR CONTAINER HANDLERS ORDERED BY US
ARMY
SAN ANTONIO, United States
The Tank
Automotive & Armaments Command (TACOM) of the US
Army has placed a USD50 million order for 93
rough-terrain container handlers with the Kalmar RT
Center in San Antonio, Texas.
Kalmar has already
delivered more than 160 machines to the US Army; the
100th was delivered last August.
Meanwhile, the
United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) has taken
delivery of 10 rough-terrain container handlers and is
currently exercising an option for another 10 machines.
The MOD contract and an Australian Army contract last
year were made possible because TACOM, which has sole
rights to the Kalmar machine, approved
re-sale.
TACOM and Kalmar signed a four-year,
500-machine contract in April 2000, which included a
15-year parts and service agreement. The first 16
machines were delivered in June and July 2001, and
Kalmar has delivered between eight and 10 machines a
month since then.
The military version of
Kalmars RT series has several unique features. It has a
moving cab and a folding boom assembly that reduces
transport height, enabling transport by aircraft, ship,
rail or road without requiring disassembly.
- Kalmar website -
5.
NEW LOAD SCALE HITS THE MARKET
OXNARD, United States
Accurate
Weighing Systems Inc (AWS) has developed a low-cost,
general purpose onboard scale and weighing system for
forklifts.
The Weigh-On The-Way scale will be
marketed by American Forklift Scales, a division of AWS,
said president Robert Bushong.
Electronic
onboard vehicle scales for forklifts typically have been
difficult to install or confusing for a driver to
operate, he said. The new system makes warehouse and
loading weighing functions easy, reliable and
inexpensive.
The scale uses solid-state load
sensors to detect the weight on a forklifts forks. The
weight information is converted and processed by a
microcomputer for the operator to read or for
transmission to the fleet manager.
Established in
1971, AWS has been providing electronic onboard vehicle
scales and weighing systems since 1979.
- AWS
website -
6.
CORRECTION
MJOLBY, Sweden
BT expected its
global market share in warehouse trucks to lift to 22
percent in 2002, not 2003, as reported in
Forkliftaction.com News last week. Net income for the BT
Group as a whole, not the north American market alone,
fell 10% to SEK 796 million in 2002. Forkliftaction.com
News apologises for the errors.
7.
NEED A LIFT? DONT ASK THIS FELLOW
FOREST OF DEAN, United Kingdom
A
drunk motorist has been arrested after trying to get his
car home from a nightspot after a few drinks, using a
forklift.
Michael Bullock's car stalled as he
left a hotel, The Express newspaper said. He walked to a
building site where he worked as a security guard and
climbed into a forklift. He used it to pick up the car
and headed home.
But the plan came unstuck when
the car fell off the forks at the first turn of the
road. Police heard the crash, attended the scene and
arrested Mr Bullock for drink driving.
Last week
he was banned from driving for three years. The
condition of Mr Bullocks car was not revealed.
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13.
TRANSMISSION ASSEMBLY, FOR A P & H CRANE, MODEL
CENTURY 122
Norfolk VA, United
States
Closing: 20 March 2003 4:30pm - Contract:
N00189-03-T-0282
14.
WAREHOUSE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Kansas
City, MO, United States
Closing: 27 March 2003 TBA -
Contract: KCAO-03-I-03
15.
PLANT OPERATIONS EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE
Atascadero CA, United
States
Closing: 10 April 2003 1:30pm - Contract:
03-10017
16.
LIFTING AND HANDLING EQUIPMENT. COMPRESSORS. MACHINE
TOOLS
Marseille, France
Closing: 14 April
2003 4:00pm - Contract: CPV: 29123000
17.
HARBOUR CRANES. CONTAINER CRANES
Napoli,
Italy
Closing: 28 April 2003 12:00am - Contract: CPV:
29221411
18.
LIFTING TRUCKS
Paris, France
Closing: 14
April 2003 5:00pm - Contract: CPV: 29221510
19.
ELECTRIC FORKLIFT, 4,500 LBS
Fort Dix, NJ,
United States
Closing: 21 March 2003 TBA - Contract:
DABJ15-03-T-0228
20.
PRIOR INFORMATION - HOISTS
Mulhouse,
France
Closing: 24 March 2003 TBA - Contract: CPV:
29221630
21.
INSPECTION OF HOISTS AND OVERHEAD
CRANES
Winnipeg, Canada
Closing: 19 March
2003 4:00pm - Contract: 99-2003
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