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Combilift Ltd, the world’s leading supplier of 4-way forklifts, celebrated another milestone in early June when the 10,000th machine to roll off its production lines in Monaghan was delivered to Weyerhaeuser, the world’s leading manufacturer of engineered lumber products.
Truck number 10,000 will be working at Weyerhaeuser’s Parallam Mill in Annacis Island near Vancouver, and it was officially handed over to Chuck Antonides, Weyerhaeuser’s Director of Lean Processes, by Combilift USA’s President Tommy Cadden. It is also the first 10 tonne capacity Combilift to be operational at a Weyerhaeuser site.
The majority of Weyerhaeuser’s products are oversized loads which can be as long as 20m, and having identified the Combilift 4-way concept as the answer to handling such challenging products, it now operates 130 Combilifts across its sites in North America. The trucks play a key role in the company’s commitment to the safest material handling procedures and excellent productivity, and were designed specifically for Weyerhaeuser’s requirements.
Combilift MD Martin McVicar: “Weyerhaeuser’s case exemplifies how customer feedback from the wide variety of industry sectors we supply has been instrumental in helping us to continually improve the Combilift concept, to become the world’s largest supplier of long-load handling equipment.”
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