Based in Germany, Jungheinrich manufacturers a wide range of lifts and forklift trucks for material-handling and warehouse use worldwide.
Read More (About Jungheinrich)German manufacturer Jungheinrich claims to be a top-three company globally in the material-handling equipment sector and warehousing and material flow sectors. Jungheinrich is also a leading European producer of warehousing technology. With a brand slogan of “Machines. Ideas. Solutions,” Jungheinrich says rather than making one-size-fits-all products, it focuses on providing customers the best solution for long-term profitability.
The company’s products include a wide range of electric, diesel, and LPG forklifts, including reach trucks, pallet trucks, cushion tyre and pneumatic-tyre forklifts, pedestrian stackers, and order pickers, as well as racking equipment, automatic and shuttle storage systems, logistics software, and energy and drive systems. Jungheinrich also manufactures special-build fork lift trucks for packagers, foundries, and engine builders, as well as the printing, paper, chemical, timber, steel, cable, and automotive industries.
Jungheinrich’s history can be traced to 1908, when Hermann Jungheinrich founded the import/export company H. Jungheinrich & Co. After he died in 1947, brothers Dr. Friedrich and Otto Jungheinrich inherited the firm. In 1948, the company started producing hand trucks and lift trucks, and Friedrich registered the Ameise brand name. Friedrich is credited with laying the foundation for what would eventually become the modern Jungheinrich company when he founded H. Jungheinrich & Co. Maschinenfabrik in Hamburg in 1953. The firm introduced a battery-powered Ameise 55 forklift truck that year, and a year later launched the Ameise forklift series as the first lift trucks and tractors with a driver platform.
In 1956, Jungheinrich developed the Retrak reach truck, and in 1957 it released the Ameise Junior, described as “the first wheel-support lift truck.” Two years later, the Teletrak, “the first automatically controlled and inductively guided stacker,” followed. Friedrich Jungheinrich died in 1968; that year, the company introduced an ETX series of high stacking, narrow-aisle trucks for warehouses. Years later, Jungheinrich would develop the world’s first reach truck with a central joystick and take claim as the first forklift maker to offer all diesel and LPG trucks with hydrostatic or hydrokinetic drive systems. The company would premiere the world’s first forklift truck with a rotating cab in 2005.
Besides manufacturing new access and lift equipment, Jungheinrich operates a refurbishment plant for used forklift trucks in which trucks are processed through a standardised six-step refurbishment concept to become Jungstars, or “as good as new.” Jungheinrich says its five-star-principal approach guarantees each Jungstar is restored to perfect condition technically and visually. The company is so confident in the program that it sells Jungstars with the same 12-month warranty that comes with its new forklift trucks. Elsewhere, Jungheinrich maintains a European rental fleet comprising more than 40,000 rental stackers.
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