The forklift operator trainee climbs into the lift truck’s cockpit. He fastens his seat belt, turns on the ignition switch, puts the vehicle into a forward gear and immediately slams his 4-ton vehicle into a stack of pallets loaded with laptops and other expensive electronic equipment. A training disaster that costs the company tens of … Read more
Editor’s Note: In today’s Thursday Feature, we travel to exotic Singapore, where the lessons gleaned from a forklift accident can help protect drivers and pedestrians here in the US. Singapore, the Southeast Asian island city-state located just south of Malaysia, has a reputation for being strict and conservative. Something as innocent as chewing gum or … Read more
The German forklift manufacture Linde Material Handling announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with a French robotics company to begin developing a new line of robotic industrial trucks. Linde — which is headquartered in Aschaffenburg, Germany– will work with the robitics firm Balyo to build a new line of self-driving vehicles under … Read more
The popular clothing retailer American Eagle Outfitters is building a new distribution center that will handle both store replenishment and direct-to-consumer orders from the same inventory. Typically, these two functions are handled by different operations, but the new AEO distribution center currently under construction in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, will be a streamlined, fully-automated facility that … Read more
Air Products — a leading industrial gases company based in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania — announced recently that it has partnered with Japan’s Suzuki Shokan Co. to work together on the design, construction and operation of hydrogen fueling stations for Japanese forklifts. The purpose of the pact is to find ways to provide cleaner, more cost-equipment … Read more
Editor’s Note: In today’s Thursday Feature, we travel to upstate New York, where a pair of enterprising sisters have turned what some would see as a symbol of a declining industry and spun it into gold … or at least golden waffles and delicious fluffy pancakes. The town of Greece, located in upstate New York … Read more
A lawsuit filed by Clark forklifts against Japanese giant Toyota will finally get its day in court tomorrow. The jury trial in the case of Clark Materials Handling Co. versus Toyota Material Halding USA Inc. (TMHU) is slated to begin Tuesday morning in front of US District Judge Max O. Cogburn, of the Western District … Read more
For the sixth year in a row, Toyota remains the top provider of forklift in Australia. The Japanese manufacturer of heavy machinery also retained its title as the number one provider or internal combustion counter balance forklifts, a record it has held for 28 years. Toyota forklifts accounted for 32.4% of the market share in … Read more
First, the good news: The US economy grew 3.9% in the third quarter — from July to September — according to a report issued last month by the US Commerce Department. That rapid growth rate comes on the heels of an even more astonishing 4.6% growth rate during Q2, from April to June. That rosy … Read more
One word that definitely can’t be used to describe workers at one Australian workplace is “patient”. Frustrated that a car had been parked while apparently blocking a driveway, rather than waiting for a tow truck, some frustrated and outraged workers used a forklift to lift the vehicle out of the way. The forklift listed the … Read more
