The best of both worlds?
A significant proportion of the UK forklift market consists of Chinese-built models, but it isn’t a massive chunk. Chinese trucks have certainly improved in quality over the years and rank favourably in price terms compared with European built models. What has tended to let them down is poor support.
Replacement parts are often hard to find, and if they can be found, take too long to arrive. Forklifts are more than pieces of machinery, they are links in a process of supply where continuity is king.
Baoli EMEA, owned by the Kion Group, aims to resolve this issue by combining Chinese manufacture with a back-up operation based in Italy, which can supply spare parts, as well as hold a lot of forklift stock.
You can read more here. It will be interesting to see how they do.
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