What people might not know is KION don;t own the Linde brand name this is owned by the Linde gas company. KION only Licensed the name of Linde. You are now seeing the Chinese running KION and you will see more of the same coming from China , The Linde HT25T for example,The new E60 - E80 Range is the new Still electric 6 8 ton.

What comes next is a lower tech truck with Torque converter transmissions all Branded under the KION name. The fact that reported on here that the two CEO's from Linde and Still are going shows the way things are going for Linde Still and the rest of the companies inside KION.

Over the next couple of years Linde name will go from the markets. But in a way this might be good for KION as Linde name in only popular in European markets. linde percentage of the north american market is under 8%. The new 1402 truck from all accounts is not that good


Now before people say or well you don't like Linde or you are a former employee this is not true , When i said the Chinese had bought KION every one including KION said this was not True , when i said KIOn would close Linde Heavy Trucks again this was denied but both proved to be right.

The best way forward is just to say here we are a Chines controlled company who are going to market our product under just one brand and give quality and value for money to all customers for all markets , but this won't happen and again people will just say its all rubbish and linde name will always stay in the market , To them just ask Linde gas