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Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has signed a joint development agreement with Coast Autonomous Inc to speed up the development and launch of robotic solutions across its mobile equipment offering.  To emphasise the common long-term interests of the partnership between the companies, Kalmar has become a minority shareholder of Coast Autonomous. The joint development agreement and […]

Doncaster, UK-based Certex UK will serve the renewable energy market from a new office in Taiwan, which began operations on 1 January 2022. Certex UK is part of the Lifting Solutions Group, one of six divisions within the Axel Johnson International business. Certex provides products and services to various stakeholders within the wind energy sector, […]

Hyster Company has been awarded a 2021 Green Supply Chain Award from the Supply & Demand Chain Executive. The company won recognition for a growing range of electric options available for a more expansive set of industries and applications, including those reliant on high-capacity lift trucks traditionally powered by internal combustion engines. “As emissions regulations […]

At the end of last year the Kion Group AG officially opened its new counterbalance truck plant in the Chinese city of Jinan (Shandong province). In addition, it also laid the foundation stone for an additional plant for supply chain solutions in the immediate vicinity that will house a technology centre and state-of-the-art manufacturing lines. […]

Snorkel is celebrating the production of its 10,000th Snorkel S3219E electric slab scissor lift at its assembly facility in Elwood, Kansas, USA. The Snorkel S3219E was introduced in February 2015 as the first model in a completely redesigned family of electric slab scissor lifts for the company. Designed and engineered in Elwood, Kansas, the company […]

Ausa, the global manufacturer of compact all-terrain industrial vehicles, has signed a sale agreement for the Excelway range with Madvac, the Canadian manufacturer of compact multi-purpose chassis and vehicles and with Kaoussis, Greece’s leading manufacturer of waste management equipment. AUSA road maintenance and cleaning vehicles were marketed under the Excelway brandname, but now Ausa will […]

The Bonfiglioli Group achieved €1 billion in sales in December 2021. To celebrate this corporate achievement at a time still economically marked by the pandemic, the Group has decided to donate €2 million to support three initiatives that focus on people, solidarity and sustainability, in line with the spirit and values that have guide the […]

EPMC Europe has been appointed as BVS Crane’s exclusive distributor in the Netherlands. The agreement between the Turkish and the Dutch company was completed last week. Participating in the contract signing ceremony was Önder Bülbüloğlu, Mehmet Erol and A Önder Topuz from BVS Cranes and Gerrit de Groot and Adrie van den Broek from EPMC Europe […]

Axel Johnson International’s business group Lifting Solutions strengthens its presence in the British rental market through the acquisition of Lifting Gear UK, a complete lifting solutions provider with focus on equipment hire. “We are very enthusiastic about this opportunity to expand our offering within the lifting rental market, which we believe will be a corner […]

Sinoboom’s European subsidiary, Sinoboom BV, has appointed seasoned industry expert, Lucjan Bogdan to the team as regional manager for Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus. A fixture of the Polish access-equipment sector, Bogdan became familiar with Sinoboom equipment during his 14 years at Gizo Rental, which was one of the first European companies to add Sinoboom […]