A North Wales company specialising in material handling equipment has become a CAT Lift Truck Dealer. It marks the latest important step in the continuing expansion of Hannaman Material Handling. The dealership gives Hannaman Material Handling exclusivity across North Wales, Cheshire and Liverpool for new vehicle sales. The agreement was …
Read More »Cat® Lift Trucks distributor Impact expands delivery fleet with new Scania R450 Highline
Impact – the UK’s sole Cat® Lift Trucks distributor – has expanded its delivery arm with a new 6×2 Scania R450 Highline, adding the tractor unit to a specialist fleet tasked with supplying new and used materials handling equipment to customers around the country. Supplied by Scania dealership TruckEast, the …
Read More »Impact delivers forklift fleet upgrade for Courier Logistics
Courier Logistics has added four gas-powered 2.5 tonne Cat® lift trucks to its materials handling fleet, supplied by Impact, the UK’s sole distributor of Cat® Lift Trucks. The Rotherham-based logistics provider chose the GP25N machines for their reliability and to replace four older trucks as part of a fleet update. …
Read More »Caterpillar Group President Ed Rapp to retire; will turn his focus to fighting Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) has announced that Ed Rapp, a 36-plus-year veteran of the company and currently group president with responsibility for Resource Industries, has elected to retire. “Early retirement was not part of my plan,” Rapp said. “But I have recently been diagnosed with ALS – better known as …
Read More »Impact boss insists the service is as important as the sale
The Managing Director of Impact, the UK’s sole Cat® Lift Truck distributor, believes that equipment downtime in the materials handling sector could be drastically reduced if more suppliers followed its example and implemented proactive maintenance programmes for their customers. Terry Kendrew says service teams working from Impact’s 11 branches across …
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