Retrieved back to October 26^th, 2009, Sino-American Zhejiang Maximal Forklift Co., Ltd. brought their Maximal all-round movable forklift and all-round electric movable platform to take part in CeMAT 2009 and PTC 2009 held in Shanghai New International Exhibition Center. These two products were designed, developed and manufactured in China, thoroughly breaking though the problems of travelling horizontally lying in traditional material handling equipments and filling in the gap of industrial trucks of China in this area. Maximal, due to these two products, became a shining part of the exhibition in terms of domestic technologies and new products.

Recently, the journalists of Chinaforklift.com (www.chinaforklift.com, English version: www.forkliftnet.com) conducted an interview to Lu Jinhong, the Chairman of the Board in Sino-American Zhejiang Maximal Forklift Co., Ltd. Mr. Lu told the journalists that except the two products mentioned above, Maximal also launched 16T internal combustion forklift (FD160T) and 1.3T three-dimensioned narrow aisle stacker (MWK3). The launch of 16T internal combustion forklift was a sign of Maximal to list in the several industrial vehicle manufactures in this field in China.

Mr. Lu introduced the research and manufacturing process of all-round movable forklift and platform in details to the journalists of Chinaforklift.com. According to Mr. Lu, from project construction to research and development and to launch of the new products officially, it cost Maximal less than a year.

The two products had not only attracted a number of visitors during the exhibition, but also drew attention of CCTV to make special show of them. It was necessary to promote the products to the market, letting the customers know more about the features of the products.

·Competent Research & Development Team

Relying on the military technological force of Academy of Armored Force Engineering of PLA, Sino-American Zhejiang Maximal Forklift Co., Ltd. organized research and development team as well as manufacturing team jointly with Hefei Detong Technology & Trade Co., Ltd.

·Reliable National Defense Patent

After successfully manufacturing all-round movable forklift and platform, Maximal applied for China National Defense Patent for these innovative products.

·Unique Traveling Way of Material Handling Equipment

In terms of traveling way, the traditional material handling equipment mostly travelled forward and backward, requiring certain turning radius; while this new high-tech products changed the traveling mode of traditional material handling equipment in China, which were in no need for turning radius, saving space for handing operation to a great extent.

·Higher Working Efficient and Economic Benefit

Maximal all-round movable forklift and platform can be moved exactly and quickly toward any direction, and can be qualified for material handling operation in narrow space with high efficient. The new products realized large handling capacity in unit time and effective warehouse stock with greater economic benefit.

·More Powerful and Maneuverable

These two products applied 4X4 electric driving technology to provide stronger and powerful driving force to undertake more loads, not only travelling in a more stable way, but also possessing faster break speed and better controlling ability on the slop.

·An Integration of Comfort, Reliability and Operability

Maximal all-round movable forklift and platform brought X-BY-Y technology into application, alerting the controlling method of material handling equipment. The users can control the equipments through handlers under the improved human-machine interface. The two equipments are maintenance-free, reliable in controlling systems and comfortable for drivers.

·Extended Application

Maximal all-round movable forklift and platform can be used for the operation of intensive and narrow warehouse besides for military and defense units.

Maximal material handling equipments deserved brighter future and broader market.

Mr. Lu emphasized that, as a civil-owned manufacturer of industrial vehicle, in these years Maximal made every effort to invest more in research and development so as to realize product improvement. Though the global economic crisis beat the industry heavily, Maximal would always focus on material handling equipment and would take more and more new technology and products to the customers.

“Innovation will always be our pursuit and task!” said Mr. Lu in the end of the interview, “sticking to principle of sincere cooperation, we will strengthen our partnership inside the industry to explore more market and realize mutual win, making contribution of our company to the development of industrial vehicle industry as well as the economic prosperity in China.”

After the interview, Mr. Lu invited the journalists to visit the new factory of Maximal in Fuyang, Zhejiang.

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 RMB580 million Yuan of total asset. The yearly output value is up to RMB850 million 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  RMB120 million 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 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.