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South African forklift business gives “fine” performance

News Story - 31 Aug 2006
CAPETOWN, South Africa

South African transport and logistics company Imperial Holdings Ltd has released its financial results for the year ended June 25, 2006, which show profits across the board, including in the...

Jungheinrich on track for China growth

News Story - 31 Aug 2006
HAMBURG, Germany

Jungheinrich AG has officially opened a new assembly plant in the Qingpu industrial zone in China. The plant is expected to start producing electric pedestrian pallet trucks in the northern...

JCB tech climbs Kilimanjaro for hospice

News Story - 31 Aug 2006
ROCESTER, United Kingdom

An IT technician for telehandler manufacturer JCB will scale Africa's tallest mountain next month to raise more than GBP1,000 (USD1906.30) for a UK hospice. Derek Truby, 50, was inspired to...

Forklift causes agency evacuation

News Story - 31 Aug 2006
ALBANY, NY, United States

Carbon monoxide fumes from a propane-fuelled forklift forced the evacuation of a US career agency on Tuesday afternoon. Times Union reported nine people from Northeast Career Planning's office on 279...

Speed Limiter success story - Warehouse Safety Solutions

Advertisement - 31 Aug 2006

Malaysian car manufacturer Perodua has a fleet of 162 forklifts, 81 of which are diesel. Perodua is Malaysia's second largest car manufacturer and employs around 10,000 people. With this many people on site the Perodua Safety Committee recognised the need to control the speed of their forklifts. Perodua approached their forklift supplier whom in turn approached WSS to help solve their problem. WSS flew to Malaysia and installed one speed limiter for Perodua to evaluate...

FLTA Safety 2006 delegates to trial internet safety tool

Fork Talk - 31 Aug 2006
ALTON, United Kingdom

A new online safety tool for forklift drivers will be trialled by delegates in the weeks leading up to the Fork Lift Truck Association's (FLTA) 2006 safety conference.

Inside the News - Edition #274

Inside the News - 24 Aug 2006

In Forkliftaction.com News #273, Hyster South-East general manager Rod Peirce's last name was inadvertently misspelled in our movers & shakers news item. Forkliftaction.com apologises for the error. Forkliftaction.com helps you plan...

Container attachments: moving the world of boxes

Feature Article - 24 Aug 2006

International trade may be quite different today without the invention of "boxes"; the long metal containers that many manufactured products have spent time in. Forkliftaction.com News reporter Christine Liew spoke to the world's leading makers of machine attachments that move containers.

Scholarships awarded to future industry leaders

News Story - 24 Aug 2006
CHARLOTTE, NC, United States

The Material Handling Industry Association's education arm has awarded USD87,000 in scholarships to 31 students at 20 US universities. The Material Handling Education Foundation Inc's (MHEFI) scholarship selection committee, made...

Lucky key for historic forklift buyer

News Story - 24 Aug 2006
INCHEON, Korea, Republic Of

Doosan Infracore marked the sale of its 300,000th forklift to one of Korea's leading equipment rental companies with a ceremony and a gold key. Fork Corporation received a plaque of...

Brazilian show attracts 25,000

News Story - 24 Aug 2006
SAO PAULO, Brazil

More than 25,000 people visited Brazil's biennial materials handling expo, Movimat, this month. Edson Carillo, director of show organiser IMAM, told Forkliftaction.com News international forklift manufacturers BT, Clark, Crown, Doosan...

Forklift buyers keep informed of the NEW offers in the Marketplace!

Advertisement - 24 Aug 2006

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Ex-forklift driver starts driving school

News Story - 24 Aug 2006
SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom

A UK forklift driver unhappy with existing forklift driver training has established his own school to give students "the personal touch". Denis Gledhill, 44, has driven forklifts for 25 years...

Mombasa Port buys five forklifts

News Story - 24 Aug 2006
MOMBASA, Kenya

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has bought five new SMV Konecranes forklifts to handle cargo at the Mombasa Port, Nation Daily reported. The authority's technical services manager Joseph Atonga said the...

Dragados repeats RTG order

News Story - 24 Aug 2006
HYVINKÄÄ, Finland

Port operator Dragados SPL has ordered eight more rubber-tyred-gantry (RTG) cranes from KCI Konecranes as part of an expansion project at the Spanish Port of Valencia (Forkliftaction.com News #25). Dragados...

New centre enhances CNH global plan

News Story - 24 Aug 2006
LAKE FOREST, IL, United States

Telehandler manufacturer Case New Holland (CNH) has invested more than USD30 million in a 500,000 square foot (46,452 square metre) parts distribution centre in Cameron, Missouri. CNH parts & service vice...

M&S seeks forklift operators

News Story - 24 Aug 2006
STOKE-ON-TRENT, United Kingdom

British upmarket retailer Marks & Spencer's new distribution centre will have 300 jobs up for grabs. Previously a national hub for delivering Christmas goods, the centre at Radial Point, off the...

Deutsche Messe AG: Trade show for materials handling technology continues to grow

Advertisement - 24 Aug 2006

Keeping things on the move: from 10 to 13 October the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) will be playing host to firms in the fast-growing materials handling and logistics industry. CeMAT ASIA has established itself as the foremost trade show for this sector in the Asian region, bringing the successful CeMAT format - originally developed in Hannover - to the booming Chinese market. The prestige of the CeMAT brand can be measured by the record-breaking number of exhibitors this year: 320 firms will be presenting their innovations and ideas on some 20,000 m² of display area.

FLTA: Chest-height crush fatalities can be avoided

Fork Talk - 24 Aug 2006
ALTON, United Kingdom

Two fatal UK forklift incidents have prompted the Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) to urge employers to regularly monitor forklift operators.

Inside the News - Edition #273

Inside the News - 17 Aug 2006

Forkliftaction.com's Discussion Forums is a place for networking and a platform for you to exchange ideas with industry colleagues. We recently revamped the forums - added new discussion topics and enabled...

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