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IFOY Award 2013: the nominees are ...
The nominations for the International Forklift Truck of the Year (IFOY) Award 2013 are in. In the first selection round, the jury chose twelve trucks and solutions from a total of five manufacturers for the final round from all the entries. Newly developed trucks, trucks that represent further developments or special models with significant technical improvements that have come onto the European market since June 15, 2011 were eligible for the award. "The entries by Atlet, Clark, Crown, Jungheinrich and Still have convinced the jury and therefore belong to the crème de la crème", says Anita Würmser, Chairperson of the IFOY jury.
Nominated for IFOY Award 2013 in the Forklift Truck Solutions Category: Crown
90 percent lower maintenance and damage costs and a smaller - but far more efficient - truck fleet: this is the highly successful outcome of the project implemented by MHE specialist Crown at the Spicers company in the UK. Offering over 17,000 items from its product portfolio, including leading stationery brand 5Star™, and operating from eight strategically located distribution centres, Spicers is one of the UK’s largest wholesale providers of stationery and office supplies.
Nominated for IFOY Award 2013 in the Forklift Truck Solutions Category: Jungheinrich
For many years the family owned Warimex enterprise, which specialises in the worldwide import and export of household and gift items ranging from cosmetics to kitchenware, handled its logistics activities manually in a rented warehouse in Kehl. The storage area was spread over three floors and there was no warehouse management system, so the Warimex management decided to look for a new and more efficient solution. They commissioned Jungheinrich to build a completely new logistics centre in Neuried near Offenburg with a design that not only optimises front-to-end goods transport and makes the movement of goods transparent but also achieves zero error rates. The project was completed in November 2012 after a construction period of just two months.
Nominated for IFOY Award 2013 in the Forklift Truck Solutions Category: STILL
In order to handle the annually growing turnover of goods while saving storage space and cutting costs, the Heideblume dairy in Elsdorf decided to centralise its external delivery warehouses in 2012 to create an automated logistics centre. The solution chosen by the company, which loads around 190,000 tons of dairy and delicatessen products in Elsdorf every year for dispatch to virtually all the leading German discount and retail chains, was developed by Still GmbH. The provider of forklift trucks and intralogistics systems not only uses conventional driverless transport systems but also automates its own standard trucks. As the latter can be operated both automatically and manually, this ensures maximum flexibility from the point of view of the customer.
VDMA announces "International Forklift Truck of the Year" (IFOY) Award
Frankfurt a.M., May 23, 2012. International Forklift Truck of the Year, IFOY for short. This is the name of the new award that will be presented to the crème de la crème in the field of industrial trucks. The plans were announced today at the CeMAT International Press Day in Hannover by the VDMA Materials Handling and Logistics Systems Sector Association, the initiator and sponsor of the award.
IFOY Award: start of entries for 2013
Munich, September 18, 2012. The entry phase for the first "International Forklift Truck of the Year" Award, IFOY for short, will begin on October 31, 2012. Suppliers of materials handling equipment and intralogistics solutions will be able to enter counter balanced trucks up to and from 3.5 tons, warehouse trucks and forklift truck solutions for one of the four awards at www.ifoy.org up to midnight of December 21, 2012. Applicants for the award can already register from October 1, 2012 via the entrant portal on the new IFOY website.