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The Jungheinrich electric multi-directional ETV Q20/ETV Q25 truck is equipped with electronically controlled all-wheel steering. “This enables the truck to travel in virtually all directions,” explains Armin Holzner, Head of Product Management for Reach Trucks at Jungheinrich. The new development makes truck deployment possible wherever long loads need to be transported and lifted to high lift heights in narrow aisles. “The truck’s electric all-wheel steering enables it to transport and store loads up to 8m in length, thus maximising warehouse space,” Holzner adds.
A number of different travel programs are available for this purpose, one of them consisting of a “improved normal operation” program that reduces an already small turning radius by up to 34% thanks to simultaneous load wheel steering. “This makes the ETV Q superior to any conventional 4-wheel stacker,” comments Holzner. The truck’s standard 360° steering provides not only for a minimum turning radius, but also for fast changes of direction.
“The standard version of the new ETV Q multi-directional forklift already covers the vast majority of operator needs,” declares Armin Holzner, adding that enhanced requirements could be met in future by a series of additional options, including a vastly increased range of options designed for series 2 and 3 Jungheinrich reach trucks. Series production of the ETV Q20/ETV Q25 trucks is scheduled to commence in September 2010.
Jungheinrich ranks among the world’s leading companies in the material handling equipment, warehousing and material flow engineering sectors. The company is a service provider with manufacturing operations as well as an intralogistics solution provider, which offers its customers a comprehensive range of forklift trucks, shelving systems, services and consulting. Jungheinrich shares are traded on all German stock exchanges.
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Jungheinrich AG, Jan Kaulfuhs-Berger, Corporate Communications
Phone: +49 40 6948-1503, Fax: +49 40 6948-1599
jan.kaulfuhs-berger@jungheinrich.de, www.jungheinrich.com
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