Equipment dealer FMH Material Handling Solutions Inc has logged an order for USD7.66 million.
From January through to March, FMH is scheduled to deliver 22 Cat, Kalmar, Doosan and Clark forklift trucks, container handlers, personnel carriers, front-end loaders and Ford pickup trucks to an unidentified customer in the wind power industry.
The customer is building a Colorado wind plant that will go into operation in March and requires varied equipment for different applications.
Two FMH representatives flew from Denver to Europe in November 2007 to deliver the firm's proposal in three-inch-thick binders.
Notification of FMH's success arrived on September 26. FMH president John L Faulkner describes it as "my largest order ever".
The start was simple. "It came in as a phone call through our rental desk," Faulkner says.
See John Faulkner's profile (
Forkliftaction.com News #384).