First i have never worked or had a connection to Linde or any KION company and have no ax to grind. The post was not aimed at KION but at the hole market. KION has like i said done a deal with Shandong and only a couple of day's after forkliftaction not me asked them about this. To me by declining to comment on what it called rumours and and speculation shows that KION are in panic at the moment. The deal was not done over the last couple of day's but has been going on for some time.

It was both Herald and partsguy5 that said i was wrong while in fact i was shown to be right purely by the fact KION have sold 25% of KION Group and 70% of KION Hydraulics to a Chinese state owned company.

I have said in my post on this subject that Linde has made some very good innovation on the electric side of the forklifts and if there has been any innovation in IC trucks made by forklift manufactures please let me know. I said all manufactures of IC forklifts have not been innovative. Again it was both Herald and partsguy5 who like they like to point out our new truck is suposed to be a copy of a Linde i only pointed out the differences of our truck to Linde.

I would suggest that both Herald and Partguy5 work at Linde probably in management and don't like the fact that KION is being sold to the chinese.


Linde have all ways tried to sell there trucks on their technology that they claim and in some areas rightly so that this is better. Now As most chinese companies work together to control a market other comapnies will infact use Linde technology so how do you both expect Linde to sell say a 7,000kg truck for around $58,000 when a chinese company with the same technology will sell for $45,000.


I also said it would be good for the customer now because companies who are in forklift manufacturing and service are now going to have to be more innovative if they want to succeed and charge a premium for there equipment.




KION shareholders have been looking to sell part of KION from last year i have known about this personally since about Feb this year as i friend of mine told me. I have not put this out until this week when the story broke so how come i have a ax to grind. If none of this was true and KION in fact had not agreed to sell to Shandong then yes i would agree with you that this is the case but the truth is KION have sold and Shandong will end up with all KION group