Inside the News - Edition #1147

Barbara Adam -
Inside the News
- 28 Sep 2023 ( #1147 )
<1 min read

With the northern hemisphere Summer well and truly over, it’s clear the materials handling sector has been hard at work.

This week’s news includes a flurry of new model launches as well as some pretty interesting capital works announcements.

The Forkliftaction team also sends big happy 95th birthday wishes to materials handling pioneer Otmar Kaup, who helped develop the first hydrostatically driven forklift and went on to found the global forklift attachment company KAUP GmbH & Co. KG.

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