Truckwatch June 2010
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Truckwatch June 2010 | Wednesday 23rd June 2010 |
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A feasibility study by the Nissan Motor Company into spinning off its Industrial Machinery Division is underway. The division, which includes Nissan’s forklift truck operations, employs over two and a half thousand people in Japan, Spain, Sweden and the USA and had a turnover in 2009 of US$659 million. The new business will remain a wholly owned subsidiary so will retain the benefits of group synergies whilst strengthening its autonomy and creating the flexibility required to compete in the current challenging marketplace.
Hyster Europe will be showing off the latest developments in container handling at TOC Europe 2010 (the Terminal Operations Conference and Exhibition) in Valencia in June. The company’s Big Trucks team will be promoting the new H25-32XM range of heavy duty trucks which comprises seven forklifts and two specialist container handlers. A range of new options for all Hyster ‘big trucks’ will be revealed at Hyster’s stand close to the show entrance.
The British Industrial Truck Association (BITA) is predicting an improvement in the forklift truck market in 2010. This is based upon data from an Economic Forecast provided for the Association by independent consultants Oxford Consulting and announced at the Association’s recent AGM. The forecast suggests that both new truck deliveries and orders will rise although it does confirm a fragile recovery in the short term with brighter prospects farther ahead. 2009 ended with both orders and shipments for forklift trucks down by over 40%.
Atlet has supplied seven new trucks to nursery and baby supplier Kiddicare for use at its Peterborough warehouse facility. Three Forte UHS reach trucks are operating in double-deep racking whilst four Presto PLP pallet transporters are serving as mobile picking stations. According to Kiddicare’s Steve Poulter, the trucks, which are all finished in the company’s distinctive blue and pink colours, were selected because they offered the best combination of performance, whole-life cost and support.
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