A new warehouse equipment range from Hyundai Heavy Industries Europe (HHIE) will be available in Europe in November. The new range will complement the company's existing range of diesel, LPG and battery forklifts and reach-trucks.

The new range features new pallet trucks, vertical mast stackers and double-lift stackers. Jan Coemans, marketing engineer for HHIE, says the new range will give dealers the additional advantage of being able to offer a full range of quality products to customers.

"A good portion of our dealers already had warehouse equipment from other less competitive brands in their ranges. To be able to offer a full range of Hyundai equipment now sends a very strong signal to their existing customers and to prospects."

HHIE's plan is to provide dealers with the widest possible range so they can compete competively in all sectors of the market.

At the launch of the new range, HHIE's managing director, Jin Wook Hwang, explained the new range offers customers a "spectrum of options and choices".

The range will be available in Europe but not in Russia and Turkey and Coemans says the company is "ready to take orders".

There are four new ET pallet trucks ranging in capacity from 1,600 kilograms (3,527 pounds) to 2,200 kilograms (4,850 pounds) and two new EP models that offer a fold-down, ride-on platform.

There are two new compact, lightweight, single-mast ES stackers ranging in capacity from 1,000 kilograms (2,204 pounds) with a 2.8-metre (9.1 feet) lift height to 1,400 kilograms (3,086 pounds) with a 900 mm (2.9 feet) lift height.

HHIE has also released three new light LS models with capacities of 1,000 kilograms (2,204 pounds), 1,200 kilograms (2,645 pounds) and 1,400 kilograms (3,086 pounds). In the medium category, four new MS models are available - 1,400 kilograms (3,086 pounds) with a 1,500 mm (4.9 feet) lift height, 1,600 kilogram (3,527 pounds) with a 4,720 mm (15.4 feet) lift height, and two with duplex or triplex masts and an optional full free lift.

In the heavy-duty stacker range, two new HS models have been released with capacities from 1,000 kilograms (2,204 pounds) to 2,000 kilograms (4,409 pounds). Lift heights for this model range from 1,510 mm (4.95 feet) to 5,400 mm (17.71 feet). There are also two double-lift DS models in the 2,000-kilogram (4,409 pounds) range with lift heights ranging from 1,725 mm (5.65 feet) to 2,125 mm (6.97 feet).

Coemans says customer preferences are instrumental in the launch of this range and any other Hyundai range. "Together with precision, performance and profitability, preference is one of our product values, so it was very instrumental. Our customers can now choose from a wide range of machines - one for each application.

"What differentiates us from competition - and this goes for the Hyundai range - is what we'd like to describe as "operator pleasure" because an operator who takes pleasure in work, does a better job. Sound quality is the basis to that idea, but preference, precision and performance completes it."