Recently, PLA General Logistics Department held the 2008 Army Stock Equipment Purchase Meeting in Tianjin Northern China Military Materials Purchasing Bureau.

As is known, due to the specialty of the military materials, evaluation committee put forward strict requirements on the configuration, safety and reliability of the purchased equipments. Totally eight famous forklift enterprises in China participated in this bidding. This bidding took form of comprehensive competition on many aspects, such as appearance, engine, travel speed, load, elevation, minimum turning radius, accessibility, leakage and so on. At last, Zhejiang Maximal Forklift Co., Ltd. was successful to be the designated supplier this year as all of the nine Maximal prototypes passed the strict tests with excellent technological performance. 

Through the success in this military purchasing program, Maximal has completely presented competence on the product quality, performance-price-ratio and service. This is a new opportunity for the purchasing units of the army to deeply probe into the technical force and good-faith service; meanwhile, it also can promote the enterprises to make more contribution for the modernization of the army. 

About Maximal

Sino-American Zhejiang Maximal Forklift Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Zhejiang KNSN Pipe & Pile Co., Ltd. The group stands on building machine industry and owns more than ten years’ technology research experience and accumulation in the industry. The group has six subsidiaries with more than 1500 employees. It owns 580 million RMB Yuan of total asset. The yearly output value is up to 850 million RMB Yuan.

Zhejiang Maximal Forklift Co., Ltd. has introduced American advanced forklift technique design, production technology and management philosophy. It owns international advanced component processing center, component coating line, assembly line, machine performance test line, and forklift component test table, which are all provided with complete set computer-control system. It is making effort to build the brand of Maximal forklift with standard of internalization, specialization, and environment protection.

The company has totally invested 120 million RMB Yuan. It covers an area of 66600 Square Meters. The designed production capacity is 15000 forklifts per year. The product is controlled and supervised during the whole process from the assembly of the components to the test of the machine and service after sales. Moreover, it has a team of 40 high caliber and well-experienced scientific research talents. It always takes scientific innovation as the important task for raising core competence of the company. It has set up long-term technology and information cooperation relationship with Zhejiang Industrial Design Institute, Hangzhou City Building Design Institute, and the Design Institute of Zhejiang University, which provides powerful technology guarantee for producing quality forklifts.

The company sticks to the philosophy of “maximal”. Its long-term target of the company development is “biggest, strongest and best”. Customers fairly love M series forklifts because of its high starting-point design, excellent performance, comfortable operation, reliable work, and beautiful look. The company will ensure the excellent performance with strict test means. It will adopt perfect sales and service network to provide the customers with series of before-sales, on-sales and after-sales service such as providing machine and spare parts, maintenance, technology inquiry and material handling design.

The company has formed a product structure of 1-4.5T Inner Combustion forklifts, 1-3T battery forklifts, container handling forklifts, LPG forklifts, and reaches forklifts. It will continuously strengthen the research force; enlarge the range of the products, so as to meet the different demand of domestic and overseas customers.