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China forklift sales to exceed 120,000 units

News Story - 27 Apr 2006
BEIJING, China

The China Industrial Truck Association (CITA) says China's forklift sales reached 75,000 units in 2005. Forklifts in service reached 340,000 units. Forklift sales are expected to exceed 120,000 units by...

Former forklift operator in legal drama

News Story - 27 Apr 2006
WASHINGTON, DC, United States

The US Supreme Court grappled last week with how to determine if an employer had unlawfully retaliated against a worker because she claimed sexual harassment or other discrimination. In the...

Forklift legend passes on

News Story - 27 Apr 2006
ALTON, United Kingdom

When Bill Phipps climbed to the rostrum to receive his Archie award in February, it would be his last appearance at the annual Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) awards ceremony...

JCB finishes new Asian plants

News Story - 27 Apr 2006
PARIS, France

JCB CEO John Patterson said at the Intermat exhibition in Paris this week that the UK company had invested in boosting production around the globe. He said JCB made the...

Yale delivers 500th truck to customer

News Story - 27 Apr 2006
HAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom

Yale UK has delivered its 500th forklift, a three-wheel electric ERP20ATF, to a major UK home improvement retailer. Yale UK has supplied materials handling equipment to Homebase since 1998. The...

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Movers & Shakers

News Story - 27 Apr 2006

MILWAUKEE, WI, United States Nick Yaksich, Association of Equipment Manufacturers' global public policy vice president, has been appointed policy committee chair for the Canadian American Business Council (CABC). Yaksich is...

Children charged with robbery drove forklift

News Story - 27 Apr 2006
PERTH, Australia

Five boys in Western Australia charged with robbery at a Newman business allegedly tried to drive a forklift at the rear of the shop. Newman police alleged the boys, aged...

Toll SPD - The ideal model of logistics success

Advertisement - 27 Apr 2006

When an Australian transport company moving over 100 containers a week increased their labour productivity by 15%, reduced trailer fleets by 26% and increased turn around times of delivery fleets by 6 hours a day the industry stood up and took notice of what was happening at Toll SPD Brisbane. As the ideal model of a successful restructure of operations and cost efficiencies TOLL SPD was recognised nationally by the LAA for its achievements.

Safety alert on telehandlers

Fork Talk - 27 Apr 2006
MELBOURNE, Australia

Regulatory authority WorkSafe Victoria says its inspectors will take action against companies that use inadequately designed telehandlers as mobile cranes.

Event: MATEX 2006

Industry Profile - 27 Apr 2006
SYDNEY, Australia

MATEX 2006, held from May 30 to June 2 at Darling Harbour Convention & Exhibition Centre, is the leading trade show for the warehousing, logistics and supply chain industries. This year's event sees the introduction of the Interactive Warehouse, a showcase of the latest warehousing technologies.

Inside the News - Edition #256

Inside the News - 20 Apr 2006

Forkliftaction.com helps you plan your advertising by providing a calendar of editorial features appearing in Forkliftaction.com News in the coming months. This month's feature is on China's forklift market. Features...

The forklift market in China

Feature Article - 20 Apr 2006

China Industrial Truck Association (CITA) managing director Su Enyi has said forklift sales for foreign companies grew more than Chinese companies in 2005. Forkliftaction.com News reporter Christine Liew speaks to three foreign forklift manufacturers about the Chinese market.

TruPar, Solideal partner on GM tyre deal

News Story - 20 Apr 2006
MADISON HEIGHTS, MI, United States

TruPar America Inc and a unit of Luxembourg-based Solideal International SA have won a five-year global contract to supply General Motors Corp (GM) with replacement tyres for forklifts, internal transport...

Visa delays affect trade show business

News Story - 20 Apr 2006
MILWAUKEE, WI, United States

Overseas businessmen have said they would never come to the US again after receiving rude treatment from visa processing officials, a trade association told a US congressional hearing this month...

Doosan opens up on ambition

News Story - 20 Apr 2006
FRAMERIES, Belgium

Doosan Infracore has singled out the European market as part of its strategy to be ranked the world's fifth highest selling forklift manufacturer by 2010. Daniel Vanhemelrijck, sales and marketing...

RFID technology evolves, gains traction

News Story - 20 Apr 2006
HACKENSACK, New Jersey, United States

by US correspondent Roger Renstrom Use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology continues to make its mark in the forklift industry with implementations and expanded trials. American retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc is transitioning to newer RFID technology and system provider ID Systems Inc has disclosed additional details on a strategic agreement with Nacco Materials Handling Group (NMHG) and its units Yale Materials Handling Corp (YMHC) and Hyster Company. Wal-Mart is moving toward generation 2 RFID technology in trial locations and "sun-setting gen 1 on June 30", Rollin Ford, Wal-Mart executive vice president said. Wal-Mart, of Bentonville, Arkansas, was reportedly ordering 15,000 gen 2 readers. Simon Langford, Wal-Mart RFID strategies manager, said Wal-Mart had been piloting beta-type RFID-enabled forklifts in a laboratory for proof-of-concept tests that began in January. The firm intends soon to run pilot tests on the effectiveness of RFID-enabled forklifts at six RFID-enabled Sam's Club locations. The plans call for use of forklifts in tagging cases and pallets of goods during transport in storage and sales areas. A forklift interrogator will read location tags in shelves holding the pallets and enable workers to use the data to determine the location of tagged merchandise. ID Systems formalised a marketing agreement with NMHG on April 11, its first with a forklift manufacturer. The firms demonstrated the technology at NA 2006 in March (Forkliftaction.com News #254). Greg Smith, ID Systems vice president of marketing and corporate communications, said ID Systems would attend regional dealer meetings, assist NMHG, of Portland, Oregon, USA, in putting together a corporate strategy and work through the YMHC and Hyster sales organisations to support introduction of RFID technology. With installation and maintenance requirements, RFID represented "a new potential revenue stream for [forklift] dealers", Smith said. A system may add "a few thousand dollars onto the cost of a forklift" but ID Systems had found the payback period was about 12 months-18 months. Click here to read full story.

New South African company for Kalmar

News Story - 20 Apr 2006
DURBAN, South Africa

Kalmar has established a new subsidiary company in Durban, South Africa, Kalmar Industries South Africa Pty Ltd. The company is headed by Edwin Briggeman, who will oversee delivery of straddle...

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News Story - 20 Apr 2006

New forklift for heavy jobs READING, United Kingdom Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks has introduced a new series of electric counterbalanced forklifts for the European, African and Middle Eastern markets. The Europe-manufactured...

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