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Lift Trucks: Build a Fleet that Fits

Business fluctuations make it hard to maintain the right mix of lift trucks without overspending or underutilizing. Consider these guidelines to avoid both....

Be Ready to Answer “Now What?”

Life has a tendency to thwart the best laid plans. That's why the best plans often turn out to be Plan B....

CLARK’s Louisville DC: Nine Accident-Free Years

CLARK Material Handling Company was presented with the Kentucky Governor’s Safety & Health Award for the fifth year in a row at a ceremony held at CLARK’s Aftermarket Parts Distribution Center in Louisville, KY last month...

Recharging Station Gifted for On-Road Electrics

Graybar, a distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, donated an electric vehicle (EV) charging station to the IEEE Operations Center in Piscataway, N.J...

Toyota Names New Vice Presidents

Toyota Industrial Equipment Mfg., Inc. (TIEM), the Columbus, Ind. plant responsible for manufacturing the majority of Toyota lift trucks sold in the U.S., has named two new vice presidents...

New Leadership Coming to Industrial Truck Association

The Executive Committee of the Industrial Truck Association (ITA) announced that William J. Montwieler, executive director of ITA since 1983, will retire on December 31st...

Rush and Sky-Trax Merge for Lift Truck Tracking

Rush Tracking Systems and Sky-Trax, Inc. have merged to form a vertically integrated provider of smart truck tracking systems for manufacturing and warehousing environments...

Precise Walkie Straddle Stackers

Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks’ PWT15 and PWT18 are 3,000-3,500 lb capacity heavy-duty electric walkie straddle stackers featuring an AC-powered drive motor and electric power steering option for precise control when traveling at any speed...

Fuel Cell Markets Juicing Up

Global fuel cell spending—including research and development funding and investment in fuel cell enterprises, as well as commercial sales—is forecast to climb 10.9 percent annually to $10.2 billion in 2015 and then nearly double to $19.0 billion in 2020, according to World Fuel Cells, a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc...

New President for Toyota Industrial Equipment

Toyota Industrial Equipment Mfg., Inc. (TIEM) named a new president: Toshiya Yamagishi. He is also president of Toyota Industries North America, Inc.; vice chairman of Toyota Material Handling North America (TMHNA) of Columbus, Ind.; and serves on the board of directors for Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. (TMHU) of Irvine, Calif...

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