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In line with their globalisation strategy aimed at international growth markets, Linde Material Handling GmbH (LMH) aims to extend its Service and Sales networks in Russia and central Asia. LMH is also planning to take over the business of its Russian dealership Liftec, which has been exclusively responsible for sales and support for Linde products in Russia thus far. …more

Electric forklifts, electric karts or conventional cars — powered by Linde Material Handling
Electric transport is one of the big hot topics in society. Highly industrialised countries in particular are focusing on new emission-free vehicle concepts in order to reduce the impact of transport on humans and the environment. The automotive and component supply industry as well as research institutes are working on development projects worth billions of euros involving various concepts and technologies. In the past, the world has hardly taken notice of the industrial truck industry, which has seen the manufacture of electric forklifts and warehouse trucks for decades. Before the official opening of the 2011 StaplerCup, Linde Material Handling (LMH) presented its extensive expertise in electric drive technology, acquired over four decades, to the press. …more

Linde MH sees positive results of participation in CeMAT 2011

As the fourth day of the CeMAT 2011 fair draws to a close, Linde Material Handling (Linde MH) can look back on a very successful show. "Visitors to our stand are impressed by both our presentation and the wide range of new products. We have clearly exceeded our expectations in this respect," Ralf Dingeldein, Sales Manager New Vehicles Linde MH, said in Hanover. …more

The new Linde E20–E50 electric forklift truck series sets the benchmark. This was the verdict of the panel from the MM Maschinenmarkt magazine, as they awarded Linde Material Handling (Linde MH) the MM Logistik award in the category of "Industrial trucks/technology" on the first evening of CeMAT 2011. …more

Linde E1 electric kart earns entry in Guinness Book of Records

0 to 100 km/h in just 3.45 seconds – this was the new world record set by the “Linde E1” electric kart from Linde Material Handling (Linde MH) during the ADAC GT masters race held at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben on the Easter weekend. By producing more acceleration than any other electric vehicle in the world has ever done before, racing driver Andreas Wolf launched the e-kart into the Guinness Book of World Records.  …more

Linde MH uses its trade fair appearance to underline its new brand claim

At this year's CeMAT, Linde Material Handling (Linde MH) intends to strengthen its image as the industry's technological leader with an extensive selection of innovations and pioneering concepts. With its brand claim 'Engineered for your Performance', the company wants to underline its number one objective, namely to offer its customers maximum cost-effectiveness. …more

As individual as the needs of the user
With powerful electric counterbalanced forklift trucks, Linde Material Handling is now setting the benchmark for Europe's leading manufacturers. At the CeMAT 2011 trade fair, the manufacturer of industrial trucks with lifting capacity of between two to five tonnes will present a new, trend-setting electric forklift series.  …more

The benefits of using lithium-ion batteries in forklift trucks are demonstrated by Europe's leading forklift truck manufacturer, Linde Material Handling, from 2 to 6 May at CeMAT, the international trade fair for intralogistics, in the form of two ready-to-use prototypes: a Linde T16 pallet truck with 1.6 tonnes load capacity and an electric forklift from the new Linde E20 to E50 model line with 2.5 tonnes load capacity.  …more

This established and successfully tested system is already utilised for battery-operated screwdrivers, drills and gardening tools. If various attachments can be fitted to one adaptor then, for example, a leaf rake can be transformed into a duo hoe or a broom in next to no time. Linde Material Handling has now applied this practical system to warehouse trucks.  …more

The fuel-cell tow tractor to be presented by the Austrian battery charging system manufacturer Fronius International and the industrial truck manufacturer Linde Material Handling at the CeMAT 2011, is a concrete example of how internal logistics can function both emission-free and efficiently in the future.  …more

Outside, a new look – inside, more economical and convenient

At the CeMAT trade fair in Hanover, Linde Material Handling (Linde MH) is launching an updated version of the Linde H40 to H50 IC trucks with 4 to 5 tonnes load capacity. For the first time, the trucks feature a displacement pump for the lifting hydraulic system, which, on the one hand, allows energy consumption to be further reduced by up to 18 percent and, on the other hand, enables the trucks to operate more quietly, especially when lifting loads.  …more

A new feeling of visual freedom

With the roadster version of its new Linde E20 to E35 electric forklift product line, Linde Material Handling (Linde MH) has shown once again that there are always new design possibilities in forklift manufacturing. The prototype on show, which is based on a Linde E25, no longer has an A-pillar; instead a bent steel tube behind the steering column and dashboard ensures sufficient stability. …more

A new dimension in backwards driving

With the rotatable driver's seat offered by Linde MH together with its system partner, Neumaier Industry, the operator can rotate the entire driver's cab through 90 degrees.  …more

Linde MH presents solutions for the automation of internal material flow

As a result of rising personnel costs and intensified efforts to improve efficiency, customer interest in solutions for the automation of internal material flow has increased. Linde Material Handling (Linde MH) is soon to meet this demand by offering two different solutions in the form of automated industrial trucks.  …more

Tightening safety requirements and directives increasingly call for explosion-proof vehicles. On the occasion of the CeMAT, the world's leading trade fair for intralogistics, Linde Material Handling (Linde MH) is now presenting a wide range of new models from the portfolio of its partner Proplan.  …more

BlueSpot for silent safety

Whenever there is a possibility that forklifts and pedestrians may meet in storage, incoming goods, dispatch or manufacturing areas, special safety precautions are necessary in order to prevent accidents. …more

More comfort and reliability with the Linde K

Linde Material Handling (Linde MH) has designed a new truck for use in very narrow aisles. The Linde K family, featuring a 1.5-tonne capacity rating and a lift height of over 16 metres, will be launched on the market in autumn this year. This enhanced design boasts more convenience options in the cab and the ability to integrate RFID tags for displaying gear safety functions and zone detection. …more

In keeping with the motto of CeMAT 2011 "Sustainability in Intralogistics", Linde Material Handling will be showcasing its latest innovations in the field of energy-efficient and economical industrial trucks between 2–6 May in and around the large pavilion P32.  …more

Consistent growth strategies / Becoming a solution provider / A technological leader when it comes to energy efficiency, safety and resource preservation …more

Linde Material Handling has launched a new range of 10 to 18 tonne heavy forklift trucks to replace the existing H100-H180 series. The launch of the new models of the largest hydrostatic drive machine in the Linde product range, which was intro-duced in 2006, coincides simultaneously with the introduction of Level IIIB/Tier 4 Interim emis-sion standards which came into force on 1.1.2011. …more

With a new organisational structure, pioneering strategies and a great deal of motivation, the forklift manufacturer wants to intensely promote the growth of market and customer orientated services. …more

Industrial truck manufacturer Linde Material Handling, under the name "Linde warehouse and logistic consulting", has put together an enhanced, modular package for both material flow and storage planning as well as fleet planning. …more

The product launch of the new E20 to E50 electric forklift trucks marks the latest highlight in the history of the Linde E-forklift. Linde Material Handling introduced the first battery-operated forklift under the Linde brand at the 1971 trade fair in Hanover. …more

This year and next, Linde Material Handling (MH) will deliver a total of 150 industrial trucks to the automotive manufacturer Renault. …more

Efficiency boost for production logistics
Linde Material Handling is launching its logistics train, a new product designed to improve production logistics, at this year's LogiMAT trade fair. …more

For the launch event "CiTi by Linde", the contracted agency, insglück from Berlin and forklift truck company Linde Material Handling (Linde MH) as the client received the gold EVA award in the Corporate Events category. More than 1,300 guests were present when, on 5 November 2010, this year's awards for the events industry were handed out. In winning the gold EVA award, Linde MH fought off competition from campaigns by Porsche and Audi. …more

Linde Material Handling presents an online version of its truck data management system
The Linde truck data management (LFM) system now features an online module. This new module will allow the most varied of truck fleets to be managed in future from any computer with an Internet connection — a key feature for multiple operating locations.  …more

Eco modes in Linde trucks offer the user the choice between maximum performance and minimum energy consumption
Linde has made the performance of its trucks more demand-oriented thanks to the two new eco modes for internal combustion engine trucks with a load capacity of two to five tons. These modes enable the operator to further reduce energy consumption (depending on the application of the truck) and also help to improve safety when the truck is in operation. …more

Linde Material Handling restructures Corporate Communications

Detlef Sieverdingbeck (42) was appointed Head of Corporate Communications at Linde Material Handling GmbH (LMH) on 1 July 2010. In this newly created role, Mr Sieverdingbeck is responsible for internal and external Corporate Communication across the globe. …more

Energy-saving, precise and sensitive – the beating heart of the Linde truck has been going for 50 years
The first Linde truck with hydrostatic drive was unveiled to the public some 50 years ago at the 1960 Hanover trade fair. …more

Linde VNA K Range Combi High Rack Stackers form part of an innovative, automated Warehouse …more

Linde Material Handling introduces the first fuel-cell-powered forklift truck suitable for everyday use.

What will the mobile world of tomorrow look like? Which energy sources will replace fossil fuels and what effects will they have? The developers at Linde Material Handling GmbH (Linde MH) are always asking themselves these questions. Based on a cooperative effort with the former sister company Linde Gas Division, the manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse equipment in Aschaffenburg is now able to present the results of a project to develop an alternative drive concept — two fuel-cell powered fork-lift trucks for everyday use. The innovative trucks were tested and introduced in mid-May at the 'Linde Hydrogen Centre', which is part of the Gas Division of Linde AG in Unterschleissheim.  …more

The innovative solution for delivering goods to city centres: the CiTi Truck from Linde Material Handling

Linde Material Handling is bringing its revolutionary CiTi Truck into market in June 2010 — a truck that makes light work of delivering goods over the last kilometer. With a minimum of exertion, the operator can move loads of up to 500 kilograms over considerable distances and manoeuvre in the tightest spaces with comfort and safety. Even verges and kerbs can be negotiated with ease.  …more

With the delivery of two fuel-cell trucks to the Linde Gases Division, part of technology company The Linde Group, Linde Material Handling has taken another important step on the road to more intensive use of innovative drive technology.

As the first industrial truck manufacturer in Europe, Linde MH has incorporated fuel cell trucks into its product range. The trucks are now offered as standard and with immediate effect, as a "Customised Option". …more

"N20Vi/V08" - new steps in the ascent - order picking at ground level and beyond. Linde Material Handling launches new order picker with picking heights of up to 2.80 …more

Picking is getting higher and higher: The new V10, with picking heights of between 2.80 and 6.35 metres, rounds off the range of products from Linde Material Handling. …more

Gordon Riske (51), currently CEO of both KION Group GmbH and Linde Material Handling GmbH, will in future focus on running the KION Group. Theodor Maurer (49), currently sales director for the Linde brand, is to become CEO of Linde Material Handling GmbH with effect from May 1 this year. …more

Reach Stackers from Linde Material Handling ensure ground support at Taiwan harbour. …more

In difficult economic times, each decision to invest is examined even more carefully. By achieving TÜV certification for the lift truck productivity test, Linde Material Handling has succeeded in establishing an independently verifiable performance factor (productivity over time) as a basis for cost analysis, and therefore as an objective decision-making parameter.  …more

Multinational engineering company, Linde, has opened a second 900 sq metre heavy truck assembly facility at its Merthyr Tydfil plant as part of its £16.5m investment program in new products and infrastructure. …more

Aschaffenburg, 28 November 2008 — The expansion of storage capacity at the Kahl am Main site (Germany) sees Linde Material Handling meeting the growing needs of the spare parts business and boosting the productivity of its central warehouse. The new hall, which cost EUR 700,000 to construct, represents just the first phase of an extensive package of measures that Linde will use to further expand its spare parts logistics over the coming three years …more

Aschaffenburg, Germany, 6 November 2008 – Ralf Dingeldein (35) is the head of the recently formed New Trucks sales division at Linde Material Handling. In this role, Dingeldein, who holds a PhD in Business and Engineering, will be responsible for central product marketing, sales support and order processing in the new trucks business, as well as product communication and brand management. The aim of grouping these sales functions together is to lay the foundations for continuous customer focus. Dingeldein's key tasks will also include promoting the continua-tion of strategic brand management and the market focus of the product portfolio. …more

Aschaffenburg, Germany, 6 November 2008 – Harald Wozniak (54) is to become the company's new head of International Service. Wozniak, who graduated in Engineering, has been with the company for 25 years and in this time has held a number of managerial roles in Germany and abroad. He will draw on his experiences in the internationalisation of central functions to further expand Linde's in-ternational customer service. Harald Wozniak succeeds Friedhelm Schömann, who will now be focussing on project implementation. …more

On the evening before the German Logistics Congress in Berlin, the industry magazine “LOGISTIK inside” once again honoured the best logistics brands with the “Image Award 2008”. In the category “Industrial Trucks”, Linde Material Handling achieved first place for the fourth time in a row. The Aschaffenburg company received 787 out of a possible 1000 image points …more

Linde Material Handling has once again scooped one of the most coveted product design prizes. The vehicle, a H80/1100 diesel truck with a load capacity of eight tonnes, picked up the "red dot design award" and is now allowed to use the title "product design 2008" …more

The launch of the hybrid truck will be Linde Material Handling's first step towards introducing innovative drive concepts. …more

Dwindling oil reserves, more stringent exhaust gas standards and global competition mean that drive technologies will have to be redeveloped for the future. …more

When Linde PureMotion was launched over a year ago, it stood above all for the activities and technical advances of Linde Material Handling in the prevention of human vibrations. …more

Linde Material Handling will be presenting the world's first forklift truck with a direct-injection hydrogen combustion engine at CeMAT, the world's leading trade fair for intralogistics, from 27 to 31 May in Hanover, Germany. …more

The fuel-cell tow tractor presented by Linde Material Handling at the CeMAT 2008 is the second vehicle with this type of drive. …more

Linde Material Handling will be introducing yet another truck innovation at the CeMAT trade fair in Hanover with the new P30 C and P50 C tow tractors for towed loads of 3 or 5 tonnes. …more

The biggest intralogistics trade fair in the world is almost upon us …more

By creating an independent business unit, Linde Material Handling aims to boost its heavy truck business and occupy a stronger position in the global market …more

The market for port handling technology is expanding globally at an annual growth rate of approximately 7%. Simultaneously, the demand for high-quality customer-specific solutions is also increasing. In response to these trends, Linde Material Handling is launching several container handlers that are all set to be on the market by 2009. …more

Soon to be presented to the trade for the first time at the CeMAT 2008: the new 5 to 8-tonne diesel and LPG trucks from Linde. They are set to become benchmarks for their class, just as their predecessors were …more

Over the last few years, Baltic harbours have heavily invested in reorganising, extending and modernising the existing harbour facilities to cope with the increasing volumes that are being handled. …more

Theodor Maurer (48) has been appointed to the Management Board of Linde Material Handling GmbH with effect from January 1, 2008. …more

Linde Material Handling has added reach trucks with super elastic tyres (SE) to its range with immediate effect …more

Linde Material Handling provides its customers with unique and easy to handle product solutions for more efficiency …more

Onboard charging systems are becoming increasingly popular among industrial truck operators …more

Linde customers will be able to choose from an even larger range of electric counterweight forklift trucks from the start of December 2007 …more

Linde Material Handling has added two new warehouse trucks to its range of solutions for specific warehouse and production scenarios …more

KION Group GmbH, one of the two leading manufacturers of industrial trucks in the world, is planning to expand its hydraulics and components business significantly over the next few years …more

EU Directive 2002/44/EC on the protection of workers from the risks of exposure to physical agents (vibration) was incorporated into German law almost six months ago …more

Aschaffenburg, 16 August 2007. — Linde Material Handling has reported that demand for particle filters for diesel trucks is increasing …more

Wiesbaden, May 14, 2007 – Gordon Riske (49) has been appointed the new CEO of Linde Material Handling GmbH (LMH) and a member of the Executive Board of KION Group GmbH. …more