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Yes you can say that some quality products do come out of China but you can't just pick and choose what products are quality and what aren't. In fact Sany produce their big truck in Germany. Is a kalmar 16,000kg forklift produced in China a poor quality truck Taillift is now owned by Toyota so are these trucks now as high as quality as a Toyota

When Apple went to enter the mobile phone market they did not look at the market leaders and say well we will just copy these and produce in China. They developed a better product that answered THE CUSTOMERS QUEST FOR MORE. What KION have done is in fact looked at what sells best in North America and just produced the same. But how will this effect the hole Linde product range when Linde on one hand say to a customer who wants a 7,000kg truck its a higher price but overall it will be lower when life time costs are looked at. then say to the same customer well this is a lower price because we are matching Hyster / yale and to beat Taylor. How can they hope to beat Taylor with the same technology. KION have a hole range of companies to compete in different areas of the market so are you saying a KION Baoli truck is as good a a KION Linde truck made in china. If not then why not both are made by KION so the standard should be the same. What linde have said before is that the technology used in the Linde truck is better allowing for lower overall life time costs but they can't say that with this new truck thats one reason they have said nothing , some one once said if you can't say anything good then say nothing at all Linde have done this quite well with the new 10- 16 ton truck. A VW car made in Czech is the same quality as a Skoda
  • Posted 3 Sep 2015 05:04
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  • By exalt
  • joined 30 Sep'14 - 433 messages
  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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