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South of the Border: Rolf Slobotzky

News Story - 31 Mar 2005
MEXICO CITY, Mexico

I attended the TECMA-EXPO Manejo in Mexico City, a four-day exhibition jointly organised by the materials handling (Expo Manejo) and machine tool (TECMA) sectors of the Mexican Association of Machinery...

Movers & Shakers

News Story - 31 Mar 2005

Matti Ruotsala has been appointed to lead KCI Konecranes' long-term product and service technology development as senior vice president, Strategy and Technology. He is currently chief operating officer. KCI Konecranes's...

Forklift used in Royal Easter Show heist

News Story - 31 Mar 2005
SYDNEY, Australia

A forklift was used in a brazen heist of two automatic teller machines (ATMs) during the Royal Easter Show at the Sydney Showground. The Inner-West Weekly reported the theft took...

Inside the News - Edition #201

Inside the News - 23 Mar 2005

Our feature on financing forklifts will be published next week due to this issue's earlier publication date. Hope you all have a wonderful Easter break! In place of our feature...

Car buyers start on Internet - will forklift buyers follow the trend?

Feature Article - 23 Mar 2005

A recent study shows more car buyers are starting their enquiry on the Internet. Forkliftaction.com sent a summary of the study to the directors of MHEDA and asked if they thought there would be a similar trend for forklifts in the coming years.

Arbitration confirmed; Crown v Toyota continues

News Story - 23 Mar 2005
Dayton, OH, United States

By US correspondent Roger Renstrom Judge Walter Rice has confirmed Crown Equipment Corporation's right last year to terminate Florida Lift Systems Inc (FLS) as a Crown dealer (Forkliftaction.com News #187...

BT Industries: global market up

News Story - 23 Mar 2005
MJOLBY, Sweden

BT Industries says the industrial truck market in 2004 had the highest level ever of truck orders, with the highest increase in demand in the North American market. In BT's...

Twenty-nine RTGs for Gateway, India

News Story - 23 Mar 2005
STOCKHOLM, Sweden

Kalmar Industries will supply 29 E-One rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes to Gateway Terminals India Pvt Ltd (GTI), Mumbai, for operation at a new terminal currently being constructed at the Port...

**ANNOUNCEMENT** MARKETPLACE UPDATE: 38 USED EQUIPMENT STOCK LISTS IMPORTED

News Story - 23 Mar 2005

To date 38 dealers have sent in their stock lists for import into the Marketplace; these lists have been added already and we are adding more each day. We thank...

JCB expands in greater Asia

News Story - 23 Mar 2005
ROCESTER, United Kingdom

JCB is expanding in China and India, with plans to build its first Chinese factory. A second Indian factory is almost completed. The company has bought land in Pudong, south...

Cat Lift Trucks wins gold

News Story - 23 Mar 2005
HOUSTON, TX, United States

Cat Lift Trucks is the gold ADDY winner in the sales promotion category for packaging (CD, DVD, VHS or cassette), for its 'Let it out' advertising campaign to launch its...

Crown's new Australian office

News Story - 23 Mar 2005
SYDNEY, Australia

Crown Equipment has established a dedicated service and support office in Townsville to meet the demands of its customer base in North Queensland. The office, at the Webb Industrial Estate...

Joyride costs security guard’s life

News Story - 23 Mar 2005
EAST LONDON, United Kingdom

A security guard in an East London factory died while joyriding in a forklift. News 24.com, South Africa's online news service, reported police said the 31-year-old man was crushed to...

**Letter from a reader**

News Story - 23 Mar 2005
ALBERTA, Canada

"Because of you, a wonderful experience has happened to a fellow forklift professional from Canada. Thank you for being the catalyst for this. I'll start from the beginning. Last fall...

Coming soon: MHEDA 50th annual convention

Fork Talk - 23 Mar 2005
VERNON HILLS, IL, United States

The Material Handling Equipment Distributors' Association (MHEDA) will hold its 50th annual convention from April 30 to May 4 in Arizona. Held at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa...

Inside the News - Edition #200

Inside the News - 17 Mar 2005

We are happy and proud to be publishing our 200th newsletter. With the launch of the Marketplace just weeks away, this is an exciting time for us and all our...

Focus: Financing your forklift

Feature Article - 17 Mar 2005

Research shows 80 per cent of US companies choose to lease some or all of their equipment. This year alone, more than USD208 billion in equipment will be leased in the US. (source: Aspen Corporate Funding) Forkliftaction.com News' reporter Christine Liew spoke to De Lage Landen's David Knight, who has 31 years' experience in the leasing and finance business, about leasing equipment in the US.

Kalmar buys Dutch companies

News Story - 17 Mar 2005
STOCKHOLM, Sweden

Kalmar, which is part of Kone Cargotec, has acquired the Dutch companies Peinemann Kalmar CV and Peinemann Kalmar Rental BV from parent organisation the Peinemann Group for an undisclosed sum...

Macneill is pioneer in India

News Story - 17 Mar 2005
WEST BENGAL, India

Macneill Engineering Ltd has secured a RS83.0 million (USD1.9 million) order for 54 of its new, battery-powered forklifts from Larsen & Toubro (L&T) for use by the Indian Oil Corporation at...

Forkliftaction.com publishes 200th issue

News Story - 17 Mar 2005

The best way to imagine the significance of today's celebration is to look back at the very first issue of Forkliftaction.com's newsletter. (View first issue: www.forkliftaction.com/newsletter/archive/0001.htm) Launched in July 2000...