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Several years ago we supplied 22 Komatsu forklifts to a multinational company. They were a great success. A few months later they asked us to supply a few cheap machines as back-ups in several of their plants. We opted for EP. Within 2 months we had to retrofit their control systems as they all failed. They are very poorly manufactured and unreliable. Yes they are cheap to purchase but the cost of ownership is very high and you risk getting a bad reputation by selling these into the market place. I have never heard anything positive about them other than the cheap initial cost. Incidentally the dealer we bought them from stopped supplying them for the above reasons.
Maybe in the future Chinese trucks will improve in design and reliability but for now I think you would do better to avoid them.
  • Posted 31 Aug 2013 08:31
  • By Roibeard
  • joined 2 Mar'10 - 335 messages
  • Dublin, Ireland

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