Fork Lift Trucks Company Profi le
When Crown Equipment chose to exhibit for the fi rst time in its history at IMHX in 2010, it sent out a strong message of intent during the lowest depth of the recession – ‘watch out, here we come!’ A company that places technological advancement at the heart of its business is always going to thrive in today’s increasingly connected world, and Crown has proved to be no exception. When the invite landed on SHD Logistics editor Peter MacLeod’s desk to visit its New Bremen manufacturing plant in the US and get under the skin of this innovative MHE manufacturer, it proved too much to resist.
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Bremen, Ohio, is at the forefront of technological advances in the fork lift truck industry, a position it maintains by observing, researching and experimenting with technologies and infl uences from outside of the fork lift truck world. Rather than look at a fork lift truck and work out how to make it better, Crown
26 September 2014
Leading from the front C
rown Equipment is an extraordinary company. This family-owned global business based in New
approaches the challenge from another angle by looking at technologies and how they may affect the environment in which fork lift trucks operate. These so- called ‘disruptive technologies’ excite Crown’s design division, and have led to some signifi cant technological advances, notable among them the QuickPick Remote which dramatically increases productivity of low-level order picking. With the promise of a meeting with some of Crown’s key creative team, how could
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SHD Logistics resist a visit to New Bremen, Ohio? Flying in from Chicago to the Neil Armstrong Airport, New Knoxville – named after the legendary moonwalker born just up the road in this unlikely hotbed of innovation – and the deal was sealed. At fi rst glance, New Bremen resembles any other small town in this part of the US. Scratch below the surface, though, and you soon strike Crown, for the company is absolutely key to the prosperity of this pretty settlement. A look at Google Maps
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