On May 31^st, Forklift Department of Guangxi Liugong Machinery Co., Ltd. (LiuGong) held a delivery ceremony in Liuzhou for the 52 forklifts to be exported to Turkey. Leaders of the community such as Luo Fusheng, Deputy Director of Yanghe Management Committee of Liuzhou City, and supervisors from LiuGong including President Zeng Guang’an, Vice President Huang Min as well as the managers from International Marketing Sales Department and Forklift Department, attended the delivery ceremony accompanied with the staff to celebrate the successful hand-over of the forklifts.

The 52 forklifts on delivery to Turkey were all from the second generation of LiuGong CLG series, including 40 CLG2030H/CLG2035H hydraulic powered internal combustion forklifts, 6 CLG2050H hydraulic powered internal combustion forklifts and 6 CLG2020A battery forklifts. All forklifts were new products with total value over USD800, 000. As the largest export forklift order since the establishment of LiuGong Forklift Department, these forklifts were featured with high specification and low emission, high quality and low energy consumption while the quality of the forklifts have been approved to generally reach the manufacturing level in medium developed countries, which laid sound foundation for LiuGong forklifts to enter European and American markets.

As soon as the company had received the export order, the Research & Development Department and Production Department of LiuGong had cooperated closely, circling around the goal of accomplishing the order perfectly to conduct the product design and manufacturing process. After tackling with lots of problems and difficulties, LiuGong put across the task in time. It was a demonstration by exporting these 52 forklifts to Turkey to show that the new generation of LiuGong forklift lines was gradually mature in systematic organization and more and more stable in quality, which had been provided with conditions to put into mass production as they had met the demand of standards regulated in terms of technology and quality in developed countries.

During the address on the ceremony, President Zeng Guang’an pointed out that the demand volume of forklifts on global market at present had hit the record of 600, 000 sets per year, which kept the tendency of continuous increase. This had built up a bright market prospective for forklift industry to occupy more developing opportunities. He said that LiuGong would persist in improving the quality of forklifts and optimizing the management system on the basis of assuring to realize the goal of producing and selling 5000 sets while exporting 500 sets of forklifts in 2010, in order to seize the wind of opportunity to earn more hopeful future for LiuGong forklifts.

About LiuGong

Founded in 1958, Guangxi Liugong Machinery Co., Ltd. (LiuGong) is China’s leading construction equipment manufacturer and the first stock-listed company in domestic industry. Employing more than 6000 people and with 2006 revenues of 5.18 billion RMB, including 67.3 million USD from exports, LiuGong is the world’s second largest wheel loader manufacturer for annually outputting more than 20,000 units.