Airport Towing Trucks For Material Handling

Since 2004 Jungheinrich has achieved average annual growth in the double digits. The company has successfully established itself as a leading partner for industrial trucks and intralogistics solutions.

Jungheinrich has maintained its own sales subsidiary in China since 2004. The introduction of direct sales in China was a result of the Hamburg-based enterprise’s previous activities there – from 1997 to 2004, when Jungheinrich was represented through a dealer organisation.

Jungheinrich China has its main offices in Shanghai, with Jungheinrich branches in ten other metropolises, including Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Chengdu and Wuhan. Currently some 350 people work for Jungheinrich sales in China – at the beginning ten years ago the number was less than 20.

Since 2004 Jungheinrich has achieved average annual growth in the double digits. In the current year Jungheinrich order intake is up by about 20 per cent year on year. “The Chinese market is of enormous importance to Jungheinrich,” comments Alexander Özbahadir, chief executive at Jungheinrich’s Chinese organisation. At present the Chinese market is yielding sales of more than 250,000 forklifts annually, consisting primarily of diesel-powered forklifts. Jungheinrich is concentrating exclusively on the Chinese market for battery-powered products and complete warehouse system solutions, currently running at 55,000 vehicles per year. In 2014 Jungheinrich is expecting to sell a total of just under 4,000 electric counterbalanced forklifts, of which about 2,500 came from the company’s own production plant in Qingpu, which also produced and delivered approx. 1,000 stackers to other regions in Asia. According to Alexander Özbahadir, the company is striving to reach the 5,000 mark in 2015.

Jungheinrich at CeMAT Asia
Özbahadir continues: “We have successfully established ourselves over the past few years as a reliable intralogistics partner, and will be showcasing this competence to a professional audience at CeMAT Asia 2014 at the end of October in Shanghai.”

On a stand measuring 315 square metres of floor space Jungheinrich will present – apart from manual, mass-produced trucks – semi-automated industrial trucks (narrow-aisle reach trucks fitted with warehouse navigation systems) and fully automated ones (Auto Pallet Movers) as well as shuttle systems. According to Özbahadir, all of this is managed by the Jungheinrich WMS system, which is already being successfully marketed in China. The company is also presenting the same ETR forklift which it highlighted in May 2014 at CeMAT in Hannover – a pantograph reach truck which Jungheinrich especially developed for client requirements in non-European markets.

Jungheinrich Plant in Qingpu: State-of-the-art, Energy-efficient Industrial Trucks for the Asian Market

The Qingpu-based plant (Shanghai) develops and produces industrial trucks for the entire Asian market. Built according to the latest ecological standards and inaugurated on August 8th 2013, this building is one of the most energy-efficient in the greater Shanghai region. Right at its opening the new Jungheinrich plant was certified with the Leed Silver certificate – an ecological rating system for buildings developed by the U.S. Green Building Council. This system defines a series of environmental building standards, including resource conservation and ecologically sustainable operation. The plant’s production capacity is over 10,000 vehicles. The production area measures around 36,000 square metres, with offices there occupying some 4,000 square metres of floor space. Currently a total of 240 staff members are employed at the Jungheinrich plant in Qingpu.

“At Qingpu we are building modern, energy-efficient Jungheinrich forklifts based on European quality standards. The new plant provides us with an opportunity to produce additional truck types and larger quantities in line with market demand,” explains Armin Holzner, executive board member of the Chinese organisation. Jungheinrich is continuing to invest in the development of local products in order to further satisfy the needs of its clients throughout the region.

Opened just last year, the production facility in Qingpu replaced the previous Jungheinrich assembly plant, which had reached the limits of further expansion. The opening of the original assembly plant in 2006 represented a decisive step in tapping the Chinese market. Additional milestones include supplying the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, the World Expo in Shanghai in 2010 and the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing in 2014.

Jungheinrich ranks among the world’s leading companies in the material handling equipment, warehousing and material flow engineering sectors. The company is an intralogistics service and solution provider with manufacturing operations, which offers its customers a comprehensive range of forklift trucks, logistics systems, services and advice. Jungheinrich shares are traded on all German stock exchanges.