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News Release from: BT Rolatruc
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 April 2007
Half a million fork lift trucks
BT Rolatruc, in business for more than 60 years, delivered the its 500,000th fork lift truck to Wincanton in Hungary.
BT Rolatruc's powered trucks division in Mjolby, Sweden, delivered the landmark pallet truck - an Orion LPE200 - to Wincanton in Hungary on 28th November 2006 BT started its business 60 years ago with import and sales of counterbalance trucks and with production of hand trucks
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Fork lift trucks for long or short moves
BT Rolatruc offers the BT Cargo range with both direct or electronic hydrostatic control systems, for different applications such as long-distance materials handling or frequent pallet placement.
During 1958 BT made its first powered model at the factory in Mjolby.
It took a full 28 years to reach a total of 100,000 powered trucks produced, yet only a further nine years to reach 200,000.
The latest 100,000 trucks have been produced in less than three years.
Since 1993, factory output has risen 12 percent year-on-year and the productivity has increased from 19 trucks per employee to 33.
At the same time as delivering the 500,000th truck BT is once again breaking its volume record and now a substantial investment program is underway to increase the factory's capacity to 60,000 powered trucks each year.
This includes: New facilities to increase production space by 6000sqm, The Special Products division has extended its facility by 2500sqm, A new goods-in area has been built to handle the increasing flow from suppliers, New production equipment in final assembly, welding and painting.
In parallel with this investment programme there is also work underway to further improve production in line with Toyota Production Systems (TPS).
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