That's interesting because Hyster have singed a agreement with Tractors of India for them to produce older large Hyster trucks there for the local market. I know heli have a quite good new truck called the G series that looks like a CVS to come out soon i have seen pictures of this truck and it looks like it might be quite competitive against the hyster ,kalmar Kone Linde models this truck would have over 50% of the same or similar parts as the major producers , So if Hyster are looking to work with Hangcha on a big truck it would be to protect its market from both Heli and Sany who are also looking at developing a large truck range. The one thing about big trucks is that you don't only have to develop the trucks you must develop the services to go with them. I know that Clark have supposed to have bought Omega in Australia so the big truck market is set to get quite interesting. there will be more Large truck manufacturing moving east

If you were to look at the HC 12 - 16 ton range of truck against the kalmar range you would see some quite similar trucks so by bringing in Nacco on the development of the big range would make scene as they would get a way from the old Kalmar shape and develop their own with help from NACCO. then work together on developing new ranges. Remember HC came out of building Nissan forklifts in China and have also good connections with TCM so they might just think bigger is better and try to make a large company to take on Kion and Toyota