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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