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Toyota Material Handling has launched an online shop selling hand pallet trucks. The online store sells standard BT Lifter hand pallet trucks, BT Quick Lifters, or BT Pro Lifters, all supplied with a variety of common fork lengths

The winners of the Fork Lift Truck Association’s annual awards have been revealed. The winners were:

Philips has taken delivery of a fleet of Flexi G3 articulated trucks at its factory at Hamilton in Scotland where it makes low pressure sodium lamps and luminaries

Jungheinrich has promoted Steve Richmond to director of the Systems and Projects Division, which offers design, feasibility studies and implementation of materials handling solutions

Gases group Linde is rolling out Paragon routeing and scheduling software in 50 countries around the world to manage distribution of industrial and therapeutic gases globally.

Toyota Material Handling is investing in training through Scala’s Fresh Connection programme to give its staff awareness of wider supply chain strategy and help them better understand the needs of their customers, a fundamental aspect of its philosophy

Some 45 per cent of senior managers in UK forklift truck companies started their careers as an engineering apprentice, according to a BITA survey. “There is a tangible need for fresh blood in the forklift industry,” said secretary-general James Clark