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This is issue #64 of your personal newsletter - July 4, 2002.
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. ATLET TO BUILD NISSAN FORKLIFTS FOR FRANCE
2. HY-MATE WINS EXCLUSIVE DEAL
3. SPECIAL FEATURE: YOUR FORKLIFTACTION.COM FORKLIFT TYRE GUIDE
4. EUR10 MILLION CONTRACT WIN FOR KCI KONECRANES
5. NACCO WORKERS VOTE TO UNIONISE
6. SUSPECT CHASED DOWN IN ATM THEFT
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1. ATLET TO BUILD NISSAN FORKLIFTS FOR FRANCE
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MOLNLYCKE, Sweden - Atlet AB will manufacture a range of its warehouse equipment under the Nissan Forklift Europe brand and supply it to Nissan France SA.
Atlet, in a statement, said the agreement opened the potential for cooperation in other European markets. Atlet France SA will also manufacture Nissan-branded counterbalance forklifts.
In 2001, Nissan, which has manufacturing plants in Japan, the USA and Spain, logged EUR724 million in forklift sales turnover. The Spanish facility, in Pamplona, builds more than 85 percent of forklifts sold by Nissan Forklift Europe.
Atlet, a family-owned company established in 1958, designs, manufactures, markets and services electric warehouse equipment. It has an annual turnover of EUR175 million. Production plants are in Molnlycke, Sweden, and Oberhausen, Germany.
Website: www.atlet.com
2. HY-MATE WINS EXCLUSIVE DEAL
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Belfast-based Hy-Mate Distributors (Ireland) has secured exclusive distribution rights in Scotland and Northern Ireland for the Hy-Mate, a unique fork attachment aimed at reducing forklift accidents.
The Hy-Mate uses a self-powered articulating jib to create a mobile maintenance platform which can transport two men up to 5.5metres above the elevated forks. The Hy-Mate also uses its own controls to manoeuvre to an outreach of 3.4metres, allowing access above racking or equipment.
Hy-Mate director Andy Florence told the Belfast Telegraph that the Hy-Mate provided a safe, cost-effective solution to forklift safety issues. Coca-Cola and Guinness were already using the attachment.
"The days of lifting people on pallets or on the tines are long gone from a health and safety point of view," he said.
Website: www.hy-mate.com
3. SPECIAL FEATURE: YOUR FORKLIFTACTION.COM FORKLIFT TYRE GUIDE
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LYDNEY, United Kingdom - This week Forkliftaction.com brings readers a comprehensive materials handling tyre guide, authored by Watts Industrial Group managing director Doug Pearson. Click below to access the full story...
4. EUR10 MILLION CONTRACT WIN FOR KCI KONECRANES
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HYVINKAA, Finland - KCI Konecranes VLC has won a EUR10 million contract from ZAO First Container Terminal (ZFCT) for two panamax ship-to-shore container cranes for the Port of St Petersburg, in Russia. Delivery is scheduled for October 2003.
The order comes as container traffic at the Port of St Petersburg is expected to grow 30 percent in 2002. ZFCT said it would also open a new container jetty next year.
The new cranes will be equipped with KCI's electrical control system, and have a lifting capacity of 50 tonnes and an outreach of 38.5 metres. The cranes will be built at KCI's Hanko, Finland, factory.
KCI is a leading engineering group, specialising in advanced lifting solutions. The company competes in all parts of the industrial and harbour crane market. In 2001, group sales totalled EUR756 million.
Website: www.kcigroup.com
5. NACCO WORKERS VOTE TO UNIONISE
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IRVINE, Scotland - Amicus, Great Britain's second-largest trade union, is close to securing an enterprise agreement with Nacco Materials Handling Group Europe.
An Evening Times report said talks were in progress after Nacco workers voted in favour of unionisation last month, despite management opposition.
"Management says they accept the decision and want to work in partnership with us. They are keen to talk to us and sort out an (enterprise) agreement," said Amicus spokesman Bernie Hamilton.
Nacco did not comment.
6. SUSPECT CHASED DOWN IN ATM THEFT
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LETHBRIDGE, Canada - A thief has allegedly used a forklift to drive through a cinema's doors and steal an automatic teller machine (ATM).
Lethbridge police responded to an alarm at 5:20am on Monday (Canada time) at the Movie Mill theatre, where they discovered a forklift, stolen from a nearby construction site, had been driven through the cinema's front doors, according to a report in the Calgary Herald.
The thief had used the forklift to pick up the ATM and put it on the back of a truck, police said. Minutes later, a police officer in Coaldale, 10 kilometres east, radioed that he was in pursuit of a pickup truck. The chase ended with a collision between the truck, the police car and a power pole.
Heinrich Martens, 19, of Vauxhall, has been charged with breaking and entering, two counts of theft, fleeing to avoid police, and causing bodily harm.
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