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High performance forklifts on show at Plant & Works Exhibition 2010
Jungheinrich has recently confirmed its presence at the forthcoming Plant and Works Exhibition (www.pwe2010.com), taking place between 8-10th June at the NEC, Birmingham. The show is set to be the focus of the largest manufacturing and engineering event of 2010. Plant & Works Exhibition runs alongside Drives and Controls Exhibition, Air-Tech, and the International Fluid Power Exhibition, and is co-located with MACH 10, Subcon, and Electrex.
Visitors to the Jungheinrich stand at the Plant & Works Exhibition will able to see Jungheinrich’s latest range of ultra-high performance counterbalance forklift trucks.
The new 3-Series is powered by a Volkswagen engine and features the same hydrostatic drive technology as Jungheinrich’s top-selling 4-Series counterbalanced truck collection. The 3-Series offers class-leading fuel efficiency, productivity, safety and reliability at a price that ensures that lifetime costs – an essential consideration for any forklift specifier – are remarkably low.
In simple terms, hydrostatic drives are self-contained hydraulic pump and motor systems providing smooth and controllable acceleration as well as braking. They simply consist of hydraulic motors fed by a hydrostatic drive pump. Hydraulic oil flows through hoses connecting the hydrostatic components to produce a continuously smooth and wear free power transfer to the drive wheels, contrasting its gear based transmission counterpart.
Unlike other forklift trucks with hydrostatic drive currently on the market, the Jungheinrich 3-Series’s hydrostatic drive components have been specifically designed for forklift use, which means they offer optimum performance over the life of the truck.
The hydrostatic drive technology at the heart of the new Jungheinrich 3-Series range minimises fuel consumption throughout even the most demanding shift. In fact, test cycles have shown that over the course of 2000 hours of typical operation, a Jungheinrich 3-Series truck will save some £2000 in fuel costs in comparison with a similar capacity counterbalance truck that uses conventional ‘torque converter’ technology. For sites where a large fleet is in operation, the savings can be extremely significant.
The new 3-Series is ideal for applications where a lot of ‘shuttling’ work is involved – such as lorry loading and unloading within and around a busy warehouse or factory environment. Furthermore, thanks to its hydrostatic drive, acceleration is fast and direct while changes in direction are slick and smooth which ensures that the 3-Series performs exceptionally well at applications where quick and frequent changes of direction are required.
Jungheinrich UK Ltd offers over 600 different types of pallet trucks, stackers, counterbalance trucks, reach trucks, order pickers, very narrow aisle trucks and stacker cranes. As well as this, Jungheinrich provides an extensive after-sales support network, rental and financial services, racking systems and warehouse planning. The company is a division of the German-owned Jungheinrich Group, which has manufacturing facilities worldwide.
The combined co-located shows provided a one-stop-shop for UK manufacturing, engineering and maintenance strategies. Visitors to the events can take full advantage of all co-located exhibitions to assess and fulfil all their manufacturing strategy needs.
For online show registration or to attend the free comprehensive series of independent seminars please visit: www.pwe2010.com
For further information on Jungheinrich please visit: www.jungheinrich.co.uk
