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Under high voltage
October 16, 2025
Hyundai Material Handling is launching a new range of high-voltage electric forklifts, the BX series. The models, with lifting capacities from 4 to 9 tons, operate at 309 to 348 V and, according to the manufacturer, are designed for heavy-duty use, delivering performance comparable to that of diesel models.

Advance warning with voice announcement
October 14, 2025
Hyster is expanding its range of warning and assistance systems with a sophisticated camera system for pedestrian detection. It complements the "Hyster Reaction" driver assistance system. The camera precisely detects pedestrians at a distance of up to five meters through a 110-degree field of view.

Optio L-Series updated
October 6, 2025
Developed with a focus on the user, the completely redesigned Optio L-series low-lift order pickers from TMHE set new standards. Increased platform lifting heights, low entry, and versatile model variants for loads up to 2.5 t make these machines highly sought-after helpers.

"Show" case taken literally
September 26, 2025
The show lighting with light effects is, so to speak, "optional". Otherwise, the new A-Series electric forklifts, which Hyster is for indoor and outdoor applications and loads up to launching

Efficient handling
September 23, 2025
Under the Kion umbrella, Baoli stands for solid and robust industrial trucks at competitive prices. The new KBP 14H, a low-lift pallet truck with a lithium-ion battery, also makes internal material handling simple and straightforward.

Google Street View in the warehouse
September 21, 2025
“We already have a wide range of assistance systems, cameras, and sensors in use,” explained Rolf Huber at the Innovation Day of forklift manufacturer Still to an audience of experts, customers, and visitors in Otelfingen. Now, AI is perfecting the whole system, using new LiDAR scanners and preferably in real time.
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Under high voltage
October 16, 2025
Hyundai Material Handling is launching a new range of high-voltage electric forklifts, the BX series. The models, with lifting capacities from 4 to 9 tons, operate at 309 to 348 V and, according to the manufacturer, are designed for heavy-duty use, delivering performance comparable to that of diesel models.

Advance warning with voice announcement
October 14, 2025
Hyster is expanding its range of warning and assistance systems with a sophisticated camera system for pedestrian detection. It complements the "Hyster Reaction" driver assistance system. The camera precisely detects pedestrians at a distance of up to five meters through a 110-degree field of view.

Optio L-Series updated
October 6, 2025
Developed with a focus on the user, the completely redesigned Optio L-series low-lift order pickers from TMHE set new standards. Increased platform lifting heights, low entry, and versatile model variants for loads up to 2.5 t make these machines highly sought-after helpers.

"Show" case taken literally
September 26, 2025
The show lighting with light effects is, so to speak, "optional". Otherwise, the new A-Series electric forklifts, which Hyster is for indoor and outdoor applications and loads up to launching

Efficient handling
September 23, 2025
Under the Kion umbrella, Baoli stands for solid and robust industrial trucks at competitive prices. The new KBP 14H, a low-lift pallet truck with a lithium-ion battery, also makes internal material handling simple and straightforward.

Google Street View in the warehouse
September 21, 2025
“We already have a wide range of assistance systems, cameras, and sensors in use,” explained Rolf Huber at the Innovation Day of forklift manufacturer Still to an audience of experts, customers, and visitors in Otelfingen. Now, AI is perfecting the whole system, using new LiDAR scanners and preferably in real time.

R-Matic supports A320 mounting
September 16, 2025
The integration of automated Fenwick-Linde systems is contributing to the modernization of Airbus's new assembly line for the A320 family in Toulouse. An R-Matic system supports improved supply chain management, including the precise delivery of parts to operators on the assembly line.

Everything on the radar
August 28, 2025
Technical assistance systems help to meet safety requirements, manage high throughput rates, and maximize efficiency. However, too many systems used simultaneously can also lead to information overload and operator errors. Jungheinrich brings these systems together clearly and efficiently with its "zoneControl" system.

Long-term security
August 25, 2025
FFB Förder- und Hebezeuge Service GmbH has been a strong partner of Toyota Material Handling , providing forklifts and other industrial trucks in southern Germany around Heilbronn, Stuttgart, Mannheim, and Karlsruhe. Now, TMHDE is acquiring a minority stake.

pedestrians can be identified more quickly
August 6, 2025
A new camera solution from Yale monitors the area around forklifts in warehouses that increasingly face changing workforces and inexperienced forklift operators, alerting the operator with visual and audible signals.

Visibility-optimized Xi-Roadster
August 4, 2025
Visibility is safety is productivity – Richard Bozem, Strategy Manager for counterbalance forklifts at Linde MH, sums up the day-to-day handling of forklifts with this simple formula. Linde has now incorporated this into further models with the Linde Xi Roadster in the load capacity range up to 2.0 t.

Clark cooperates with Zeppelin
July 29, 2025
Founded in 2003, Zeppelin Polska belongs to the Zeppelin Polska Group, the successor to the famous airships, which employs 12,000 people in 29 countries and generates approximately €3.8 billion in revenue. Zeppelin Polska now distributes Clark forklifts alongside brands such as Noblelift, Socma, Manitou, and Grove mobile cranes.

Another "hat trick" with the CB70E
July 10, 2025
Following the design award for the Combi-WR and the "Best of the Best" award for the Combi-CB4, the Irish manufacturer has now also announced a Red Dot Award for the recently introduced 7-ton electric multi-directional counterbalance forklift CB70E.

Simply stack them
July 8, 2025
Hyster launches the new SC1.2 pallet stacker with a lithium-ion battery for transporting everyday loads on open pallets in warehouses or manufacturing facilities. A deliberately durable design offers a cost-effective solution.

Semi-automatic - but fully expandable
June 23, 2025
The LogiRobot AMR, a semi-automatic rear-mounted forklift truck with additional manual operation via a foldable tiller, which reached the finals at IFOY, transports pallets to the correct location for unloading after manual load picking without any further intervention from the operator.
Not everything is copied 1:1 into the computer
June 10, 2025

“If only full pallets are being stored and retrieved, there’s no longer any reason for customers to purchase a manual vehicle.” Pascal Kuster, Sales Trainer for Automated Guided Vehicles at Linde MH, is fully convinced by the automated Linde K-MATIC k combination narrow-aisle forklift. However, not all processes currently handled by manual vehicles make sense to automate them directly.
