Who owns Hyster Yale Materials Handling?
Hyster is an American manufacturing company specializing in forklifts and other materials-handling equipment. Hyster was founded in 1929 as the Willamette-Ersted Company in Portland, Oregon. The company was purchased in 1989 by NACCO Industries, Inc . and became a part of NACCO Materials Handling Group. NACCO spun off the materials handling business in 2012 as Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc., which continues to market products under the Hyster brand name.
Where are Hyster forklifts manufactured?
Hyster’s home office was in Portland, Oregon, but they also had manufacturing plants in Danville, Peoria and Kewanee Illinois, the Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Northern Ireland and South Africa, and a specialist engineering department in Irvine , Scotland .
What is container handling equipment?
Container-handling equipment. Container-handling equipment — items of materials-handling equipment required to specifically receive, maneuver, and dispatch International Organization for Standardization containers. Also called CHE.