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Looks like KION might not buy Hyster Yale this year the reason being KION might not be able to raise the Billions of dollars needed for the bid.

Since the purchase of most of KION shares by Weichai in 2012 KION has seen the gap between them and Toyotah
Has grown to around two Billlion Euro from 500 million KION stated that it would like to be back at No 1 spot by 2020 but a possible lack of funding might stop this from happening as the only way to do this is to purchase Hyster Yale.

KION might have other matters to contend with as well it may be that the name Linde might revert back to Linde gas in some countries over coming years as Linde gas owns the name Linde also when Weichai bought KION hydraulics business they agreed to stay out of supplying other OEM's with hydraulics for a fix time this again seems to be up in coming years. So will this mean that the once mighty Germany owned company now manly owned by a Chinese company will start to be broken up.


KION will have many problems over the coming Years mainly how to concur North America and with the problems that might be around the corner have some more
  • Posted 29 Feb 2016 19:57
  • Modified 1 Mar 2016 14:53 by poster
  • By exalt
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  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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