Nissan is a forklift brand which has since become UniCarriers Forklift, which in turn is part of Mitsubishi Logisnext. Nissan-branded lifts included pneumatic- and cushion tyre forklifts (LPG, gasoline, diesel, and three- and four-wheeled electric).
Read More (About Nissan)Nissan manufactured forklifts for more than six decades, originally under the Datsun name and later as the Nissan Forklift by UniCarriers brand, which eventually became UniCarriers Forklift, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Logisnext. It all started back in 1957, when the company produced its first forklift in a factory in the Totsuka area of Yokohama in the Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan.
Nissan Forklift began to export equipment to the United States in 1965 and to Europe in 1967. It consolidated its manufacturing, sales, and research and development in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture in 1975. Then in 1988, the company started manufacturing forklifts in the U.S. when it acquired shares in Barrett Industrial Trucks, and then in Pamplona, Spain, in 1989.
Nissan Forklift founded a North American corporation in 1993 to handle manufacturing and sales activities there. In 2000, the company allied with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and in 2002 it founded a Chinese branch in Shanghai. An acquisition of the Swedish manufacturer Atlet AB followed in 2007.
In 2008, Nissan Forklift hinted at the future by showing a lithium-ion battery forklift concept, the Agres Li, at the Logis-Tech material handling and logistics trade show in Tokyo. Four years later, the company became a subsidiary of UniCarriers. Its global headquarters is now in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Mitsubishi Logisnext Europe is headquartered in Almere, Netherlands.
Nissan made pneumatic- and cushion tyre forklifts with lift capacities ranging from 1,400 to 10,000 kilograms (3,000 to 22,000 pounds). It also manufactured reach trucks, straddle carriers, order pickers, tow tractors, pallet trucks, pedestrian stackers, and very narrow-aisle (VNA) reach trucks, among other things.
Power options for Nissan lifts and warehouse equipment have included LPG, gasoline, diesel, and electric. Nissan’s electric forklifts come in three- and four-wheeled versions.
Some of the more popular Nissan models on the market are the MCP1F2A and MCPL02A cushion tyre forklifts, as well as MP1F2A pneumatic-tyre forklifts.