Reiter of Essen starts a demotour with MKF-Forklifts. The 16-t machine is 3.5 m long, 1.6 m wide and 2.8 m high. Under his generously sized steel dress a six-cylinder LPG engine with 146 kW works. A hydrostatic drive from Bosch-Rexroth provides the power transfer. The 3.4 m duplex mast mast allows the driver an unobstructed view of the load. Thanks to a terminal-west fork carriage the lifttruck can be equipped with forks of different length or with attachments. www.reiter-essen.de

The cab manufacturers from Grosshelfendorf have worked out a joint venture in Chennai, capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Since six months,Fritzmeier Motherson manufactres cabines for offroad-vehicles. So that the company has eight production sites and four co-operations in ten countries, expanded its global presence. India is a strategically important location and a strongly growing market. The joint venture in India is part of the Cab Alliance, a network of independent, internationally active companies in the cab market. www.fritzmeier.de

From now is the well known trading house Erwin Schadl from Aichach near Augsburg is importer of Hyundai lifttrucks and warehouse equipment for the postcode areas 7, 8 and 9. This dealer will cover its own sales area and sell via 35 B-dealers throughout Southern germany. STAPLERWORLD will bring a detailed report in issue 03-2010. www.eschadl.de www.hyundai.eu

Both Kion-group companies work closely together. Gordon Riske, CEO of Kion. "We want the brand OM (founded 1917) in their home market of Italy strengthen further and the portfolios of OM and Still continue to be." The plan that the sales and service organization of the mark OM is completely aligned to the Italian market. In addition, OM will also control the business activities of Still in Italy. Still trucks will round out the OM program. The management of OM organization in Italy: Daniele Signorini (CEO operations) and Ettore Zoboli (CEO Sales & Service).
Still is to focus on markets outside Italy, and control the business activities of OM in the other European regions. It will complement its own product range now with torque-converter-lift trucks. OM has 900 employees (Luzzara warehouse trucks, Bari counterbalanced forklifts), Still has a total of 6300 employees. www.kiongroup.com

For years, all forklift manufacturers to try the concept of off-road bahnverladungstauglichen Rechstackers for the armed forces - of over 20 vendors is only HFH specialty vehicles and mining machinery from Braunschweig left, which now show the H001. A 3120 mm wide and 3100 mm high by 500 mm with Compakt-RT-Reachstacker with elevating cab. The 54-ton unit is equipped with an endless rotating Kaup-spreader. The first device will now be handed over to the testing site - four machines were ordered immediately, however, that the prototype was carried to full Zufroedenheit of BW-related bodies. www.hfh-herbst.de

The new H25-32XM range comprises nine new models. The range includes four standard forklift models with between 25 and 32 t lifting capacity and three ultra-compact models for operations where space is at a premium. There are also two new container handlers with a dedicated carriage for the container spreader. All models feature the QSC8.3 Cummins diesel engine conforming to EC Tier 3 NRMM emissions standards. The trucks are also highly versatile, thanks to the ‘dual-function’ carriage. The hook-style design with a ‘quick-disconnect’ (dis)mounting feature for the forks enables fast exchange between forks and attachments such as a coil ram. www.hyster.com

The Bremen based specialist for intralogistics HanseLifter supports the activities of the Hanseatic Jörg Wontorra Foundation with a donation of 10.000 EUR. The amount will benefit the activities of the charitable foundation that was founded by Jörg Wontorra in 2003 and sees its core the promotion of school and extracurricular activities for children, students and young people. "Economic success brings social responsibilities. As Bremer company, we can identify with the goals of the Hanseatic League Foundation Jörg Wontorra much and would like to make a good contribution to the success of the Hanseatic our projects, "commented Dr. Jörg Luehrs, Managing the donation. www.hanselifter.de

The Munich-based manufacturer has hydraulic end January 2010 the applicant signed the "Energy Efficiency Network Munich and Upper Bavaria. They committed themselves to significantly reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in production within three and a half years and save 10% of energy. This will be achieved through improved handling of compressed air, water, electricity, heating, consumption of industrial gases and by optimizing the maintenance and repair. Trial site is the large 13,000 square meters factory Freising. Later, the lessons learned to the works in Munich, Kirchheim, Dorfen and Sachsenkam. www.hawe.de

The Italian e-forklifts Carer specialist operating since the takeover by an investor group srl henceforth as a Carer The new owners want to expand our product lines, staff and Stadorte remain unchanged. German distributor is Alexander Nees. The new CEO is Antonio Cantonio. www.carer-italy.com

With the turn of the year also was a change in leadership in Germany Konecranes. The former CEO Martin Rothe 1.1.2010 moved into a new position within the group. The successor of Martin Rothe is Demo Scordialo, who has worked in various management positions with the company since 2006 Noell Konecranes as General Manager service. www.konecranes.de