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Hyster Telematics Keeps Lift Truck Drivers On Track For Heavy Metal Handling

Hyster has provided a new fleet of forklift trucks and ReachStackers featuring the Hyster Tracker wireless asset management system to support tough metal handling operations at the Port of Oxelösund in Sweden. The Port of Oxelösund specialises in receiving big vessels and has a dedicated steel port. Here metals mostly coils arrive at the port by trains which are unloaded with a crane. Then forklifts carry the goods to the port cranes which load co...

Kalmar Celebrates Completion Of Its 3000th Reachstacker At Shanghai Manufacturing Unit

Shushu Zhang VP Greater China at Kalmar (on the left) presented a metal plague to the customer to mark this important milestone. Kalmar part of Cargotec is celebrating a significant milestone with the production of its 3000th Kalmar Reachstacker in the Shanghai Multi-Assembly Unit (MAU) in China. Destined for a long-standing customer Ningbo Meidong Container Terminal CO. Ltd. the machine was completed on 22 June 2021 at Kalmar's manufacturing faci...

New Cab And Engine For Largest Hyster Big Trucks

Hyster has launched the next evolution in its range of Container Handlers and 18+ tonnes capacity Lift Trucks featuring new state of the art cabs and controls and Stage V compliant diesel engines. The latest evolution to the Hyster Big Trucks range also sets new industry standards for operator cabins. The new cockpit-style cab across the Hyster 18 - 48 tonne lift truck series positions all truck information and controls at the driver’s fingertips....

Kalmar To Supply Five Reachstackers To Key Petrochemical Customer In Saudi Arabia

Kalmar announced that it has secured a contract to supply a key Saudi Arabian customer in the petrochemical industry with a total of five Kalmar Essential Reachstackers. The deal was completed through local dealer Al Khorayef Commercial Co. The customer will use the new reachstackers to facilitate its storage logistics and export shipment activities related to petrochemical products at King Abdullah Port. Based on Kalmar's proven G-generation plat...

Liebherr Presents New Smart Tyre Saving System

Higher efficiency and less tyre wear are a contribution to sustainability and clearly benefit the environment. Liebherr presents an intelligent system to reduce tyre wear of a Reachstacker The new system reduces the machine speed to cool down the tyres before they reach a critical temperature Staying below the critical tyre temperature is crucial for good service life time Higher efficiency and less tyre wear are a contribution to sustainability a...