On April 6th, Mr. Alfred Rankin, as Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of NACCO Industries Inc. conducted a visit and investigation to Anhui Forklift Group with his accompanies. The supervisors of Anhui Forklift Group, respectively Zhang Dejin, Yang Anguo, Xue Bai and Deng Li showed their warm welcome to the guests.

The guests visited the casting factory, heavy-duty equipment factory, departments of small-sized internal combustion forklifts, electric forklifts and axles of Hefei factory as well as the exhibition area for parts and accessories. Then the two parties carried through a meeting in the video conference room in the Industrial Park. General Manager Yang Guoan introduced the main situation of Anhui Heli on the aspects of self innovation, research and development of new products, construction of industrial park in recent years, and also mentioned the marketing and regional network locations related to the domestic and overseas markets. Again Chairman of the Board Zhang Dejin explicated the operation and development of Anhui Heli on both domestic and international markets on the standpoint of the development strategy of the enterprise in the future.

The honored guests from NACCO Industries also introduced briefly about their company. The two parties made discussions on the issues relatively to the mutual cooperation, showing their hopes to strengthen the communication between each other so as to impel for co-development on the basis of continuing the existing cooperation which was referred to that Heli provided matching steering axles for NACCO).

About NACCO

 NACCO Industries, Inc. is an operating holding company with three principal businesses: lift trucks, housewares and mining. NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. designs, engineers, manufactures, sells, services and leases a comprehensive line of lift trucks and aftermarket parts marketed globally under the Hyster(R) and Yale(R) brand names. NACCO Housewares Group consists of Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc., a leading designer, marketer and distributor of small electric household appliances, as well as commercial products for restaurants, bars and hotels, and The Kitchen Collection, Inc., a national specialty retailer of kitchenware and gourmet foods operating under the Kitchen Collection(R) and Le Gourmet Chef(R) store names in outlet and traditional malls throughout the United States. The North American Coal Corporation mines and markets lignite coal primarily as fuel for power generation and provides selected value-added mining services for other natural resources companies.