Linde signs Potter
RIPON, United KingdomUK road and rail logistics service provider The Potter Group has signed a five-year contract hire agreement with Linde Material Handling to supply and maintain its forklift fleet.
Linde reviewed the group's fleet, in Yorkshire, Merseyside, the West Midlands and the UK's South East, and, through rationalisation, reduced the fleet size from about 130 to 100 units.
Three Linde X range reach trucks have been delivered to the group's Selby, Yorkshire, centre and more units will be shipped by the end of 2007.
Rocla wins Fennia
JÄRVENPÄÄ, FinlandRocla Humanic reach trucks have been awarded the Fennia Prize Grand Prix design award.
Rocla design manager Petteri Masalin said Rocla's designers conducted comprehensive research on what forklift drivers liked and needed.
"We also studied the spaces in which trucks were being used. The results served as the basis for the design of the truck," he said.
Manufacturers join TECMA
MEXICO CITY, MexicoThe Mexican Association of Machinery Distributors will sponsor the International Mexican Machine Tool Exhibition (TECMA) at the Expo Bancomer Santa Fe, in Mexico City, from March 6 to March 9.
According to
Forkliftaction.com News's South of the Border columnist Rolf Slobotzky, Raymond, Yales, Moffett, Intrupa and SMH will exhibit at the biennial show.
"Whoever has or needs a machine tool manufactures something that has to be moved. Therefore this makes them automatically forklift users," Slobotzky said.