Our partners in heavy lifting, Kalmar, have launched a completely new range of forklifts that deliver the build quality, high availability and excellent safety that Kalmar forklifts are known for at a highly competitive price.
The Kalmar Essential Range is based on the company’s proven platform, featuring an easy-maintenance electrical system, common driver interface, high-quality components and a highly stable and durable chassis.
The new Essential cabin improves driver comfort and safety with excellent all-round visibility, power steering and easy lift operation as well as non-slip stairs and handrails. Its compatibility with Kalmar SmartFleet, a powerful equipment monitoring and optimisation tool that makes it easy to analyse performance data, enables users to further improve efficiency and productivity.
Known for performance and adaptability in a diverse range of demanding applications including container, steel and wood handling, Kalmar forklifts have a strong reputation among Windsor Materials Handling customers. This includes the busy Hull terminal of Thor Shipping and Transport, who depend on a fleet of three Kalmar forklifts, up to 33 tonnes in capacity.
The new Essential range comprises 12 models with capacities ranging from 10 to 18 tons that can be customised with a variety of power, mast, cabin and safety options. Complementing Kalmar’s current range of medium-sized forklifts, the latest range provides a value based choice designed to exceed customer expectations.
The new range was introduced to the European market on 20 June 2017, during Kalmar Mobile Equipment Sales Conference in Lidhult, Sweden.
Our friends at Kalmar have entered the record books thanks to the remarkable heavy lift capabilities of its latest reachstacker, named Super Gloria.
The reachstacker lifted a steel component weighing over 100 tonnes in front of an invited audience at Kalmar’s multi-assembly unit in Lidhult, Sweden.
The new DRG1000-92 ZXS reachstacker range is the world’s largest industrial reachstacker in Kalmar’s hugely successful Gloria range. It boasts a completely new design, developed to meet customer’s critical specifications with lift capacities up to 120 tonnes depending on application. The Super Gloria model has been augmented with a specially raised cab to enhance visibility and a wheelbase of 9.25m to provide maximum stability.
Stefan Johansson, Director, Sales and Marketing, Kalmar Reachstackers and Empty Container Handlers, said,”Lidhult is the home of Kalmar reachstackers. This small village, deep in the forests of Småland in southern Sweden, serves as the product development centre for Kalmar mobile equipment. Given the local involvement in developing this world record-breaking machine, it is fitting that the team involved share in making a little history.”
The latest Kalmar reachstackers, empty container handlers and forklift trucks are now part of the Windsor product portfolio.
