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Tough times hit big truck markets
This is the new model in CVS’s 400
series, with a “6 HC” suffix, signifying that
it can stack up to six 9ft 6in cube con-
tainers in the first row Three new models
With the global economy in recession the
Heavy lift truck manufacturers are
a west coast stevedore. AmeraMex CEO are available with 45t capacity in the first
global lift truck industry is bracing for a Lee Hamre says the market is “volatile,” row and different capacity in the second:
downturn across all sectors. Demand for
bracing themselves for a tough year and
but there is still business out there. This 31t (model F477.6 HC); 33t (model
container handlers held up when the fi-
nancial crisis started to spill over into the
are adjusting capacity accordingly
contract is for two laden handlers, two F478.6 HC) or 39t (model F479.6 HC).
ECH and one US-built reach stacker of CVS says the new range offers the best
“real economy” last year, but the down- Taylor’s own design. Elsewhere Taylor has support to RTGs that, in Brazil, usually
turn is now well and truly being felt. Dan Pettersson said while the new facil- that level of demand within what cus- sold a 5-high THDC laden handler to stack up to 1 over 6. The design uses the
Asked to describe the current market ity will be a “Kalmar Multi Assembly tomers regarded as acceptable lead times. South African Container Deports in Dur- same platform as the existing 400 series.
conditions, one US Taylor dealer on the Unit,” able to produce any type of Kalmar Delivery times of beyond a year became ban, South Africa. Elsewhere there are tenders out for
west coast simply said “it’s in the tank.” Product, the detail of which products will common, especially in the US market. In Brazil the government has ex- equipment including five reach stackers
An imprecise term perhaps, but the news actually be built there has not been tended the Reporto import and other tax and four FLTs from Mesaieed Port in
that December 2008 volumes and Long worked out yet. New business exemptions that apply on most types of Qatar and 35 reach stackers from the
Beach and Los Angeles plummeted 20% While nobody wants to see job losses There is still demand for new big trucks, container handling equipmnt for the pe- Container Corporation of India
and 15% respectively shook that particu- it is important to note that some manu- even on the US West Coast where Taylor riod January to July 2009. CVS-Ferrari (Concor). Concor tenders can be a test
lar market. The wider lift truck market facturers viewed 2007/08 as the peak of dealer AmeraMex has just won a promptly announced the sale of a reach of patience, particularly as the more re-
across the US is clearly in a very bad way; a cycle and never fully geared up to meet US$3.5M contract for five machines from stacker to Brazil’s Sada-Trasportes. cent ones (including this current tender)
the automotive industry has stopped buy-
ing and Hoist Lift Truck’s president Marty
Flaska said other markets like marina
trucks had dried up overnight as well.
Financing for the new and lease mar-
kets is obviously a concern in the tight
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debt market and manufacturers are being
forced to adjust capacity. Leading US pro-
ducer Taylor Machine Works reportedly
laid off over 60 staff in December.
RANGE OF
Second helpings
A knock-on effect of the downturn in
the industrial and transportation markets
PREMIUM TRUCKS
is an increase in the number of used ma-
chines available. The long lead times of
the last two years widened the scope for
rental companies to lease/rent heavy
trucks and some are now looking to
agents to offload machines that have been
returned or are otherwise not required.
Joe Tabor from North Carolina-based
ASC Lift Machinery said the supply of
used equipment was increasing; he re-
cently sold a 2007 Terex reach stacker with
under 20 hours that the original purchaser
no longer required.
Several manufactures are scaling back
production capacity, to the extent that
they can, to match declining global de-
mand. Hyster parent Nacco is cutting 38
jobs out of 400 at its facility in Nijmegen,
Netherlands. This is on top of 60 tempo-
rary positions that had also been cut and
the company is reportedly seeking a re-
duction in working hours. This is actu-
ally a relatively small reduction compared
to cuts at Hyster plants in the UK and
US that make smaller trucks.
In France, Terex had its best year yet
at Montceau-les-Mines in 2008 where it
built 161 reach stackers, 25 more than in
2007. The facility also builds mobile cranes
and production of these rose even more
significantly from 216 units to 299. Rev-
enue was reported to be up 20% to
€237.7M and margin up by 9%.
2009 is expected to be more difficult
and it was reported that cancellations had
reduced Terex’s backlog from 406 ma-
chines in October to 304 by December,
though this includes construction cranes
as well as reach stackers. Terex has reduced
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Finland’s Meclift has won a €1.2M
contract to supply two 30t variable reach
trucks from its ML301RC range along
with custom lifting equipment to Qatar
Aluminium Ltd, which will use the
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bundles weighing 12t into containers. The
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machines will be delivered this summer
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