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BT Lifter 'Long-Life Hand Truck' - A Milestone in Material Handling - TMHE
As TMHE's market-proven hand truck, the BT Lifter recently celebrated the passing of another important milestone, with three million units produced.
MJOLBY, SWEDEN, November 11, 2011 /Automotive PR News/ -- BT Lifter - the long-life hand pallet truck celebrates another milestone - 3,000,000 units produced.
Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE), Europe's leading material handling equipment supplier, offers the widest forklift truck range in the market. The BT Lifter, TMHE´s market-proven hand truck, has recently celebrated another milestone - three million units produced.
In 1946 BT Industries invented the modern lightweight hand pallet truck. Since then the BT Lifter has become the industry-standard hand truck, transporting every type of goods in countless applications. BT Lifters represent the values of durability and simplicity, with real commercial and environmental benefits. Due to their proven long working life, providing typically five times the number of lifts compared with other types of hand truck, they are today differentiated with the description 'Long-life hand trucks'.
Because of this the BT Lifter is in increasing demand and the 2.5 millionth BT Lifter was produced as recently as 2005.
The highest quality
The BT Lifter long-life hand truck has long been synonymous with quality, strength, longevity and innovation. Work cycle tests prove that the standard BT Lifter can last up to five times longer than other hand pallet trucks, significantly lowering handling costs over a lifetime of operation. The standard BT Lifter - the LHM230 - comes with a unique lifetime (99-year) functional guarantee on the fork frame - the clearest possible demonstration of TMHE's commitment to quality.
It also carries the ECO label, demonstrating TMHE's commitment to minimising the environmental impact of its hand trucks. If one BT Lifter long-life hand truck can work for as long as five low-cost hand pallet trucks, that means only one fifth of the manufacturing processes, one fifth of the distribution processes, and one fifth of the disposal costs, with clear environmental benefits. All BT Lifter long-life forklift trucks are manufactured at TMHE's factory in Mjölby, Sweden.
The widest range
With a choice of over 13 models, plus many options, there is a BT Lifter forklift for every application. The BT Heavy Lifter, BT Quick Lifter, BT High Lifter, BT Stainless Lifter and BT Lifter with scale are well-established in many industries and distribution processes, thanks to their specific optimisations. More recently, the BT Pro Lifter has advanced hand pallet truck design, allowing the operator to get the truck moving with a simple pump of the handle.
Two of the latest additions to the BT Lifter range demonstrate how the demands of applications are changing. The BT Lifter Ultra Low was specifically developed to serve the needs of one of TMHE's key furniture retail clients. It works with low-clearance and disposable pallets, which are increasingly used to maximise space in shipping containers. The BT Lifter Silent, designed for out-of-hours deliveries in residential areas, operates with a noise level that does not exceed 60 dBA - the same as two people talking.
BT Lifter no. 3,000,000
Sven Wirenhammar, VP Division Hand Trucks for Toyota Material Handling in Mjölby, Sweden, comments, "I am very pleased to announce that we recently produced hand pallet truck number 3,000,000. It is amazing to be part of something today that has run consistently since 1946. For the last ten years BT Lifters have been produced in accordance with the Toyota Production System (TPS), further enhancing quality and longevity - two of the BT Lifters greatest strengths. Despite the history, the BT Lifter is constantly developing. We have the aim of introducing a new variant of BT Lifter every year, keeping up with our customers' needs and keeping ahead of our competitors."
For full information on the BT Lifter range from TMHE, visit www.toyota-forklifts.eu.
Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE) helps businesses of all sizes across Europe meet today's materials handling challenges with a full range of Toyota counterbalanced forklift trucks (http://www.toyota-forklifts.eu/en/Products/Pages/DefaultRange.aspx), BT warehouse equipment, and services and added value solutions, including service contracts, short term rental, used forklift trucks (http://www.toyota-forklifts.eu/en/services-and-solutions/Used-Truck-S ... tions.aspx) and the Toyota I_Site (http://www.toyota-forklifts.eu/en/services-and-solutions/Toyota-I-Sit ... -Site.aspx) information service. Active in more than 30 countries across Europe and with headquarters in Sweden, TMHE has a European Office in Brussels and production centres in Ancenis (France), Bologna (Italy) and Mjölby (Sweden). With about 4,500 service engineers, 7,550 employees, and a network of independent distributors and dealers, TMHE is the European regional organisation of Toyota Material Handling Group (TMHG), which is part of Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) - the global leader in materials handling equipment. For more information on TMHE, visit www.toyota-forklifts.eu.
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