Svetruck

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Coordinates: 56 ° 48 ′ 54 ″  N , 13 ° 54 ′ 55 ″  E

Svetruck AB

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founding 1977
Seat Ljungby , Sweden
Branch Industrial trucks
Website www.svetruck.com

Svetruck AB is a mechanical engineering company founded in 1977 by the brothers Holger and Sture Andersson in Ljungby , Sweden . Svetruck manufactures forklift trucks and is the European market leader for heavy goods vehicles.

The lifting capacity of the Svetruck heavy-duty forklifts ranges from 10 to 52 tons. The company's three main product groups are forklifts, container handlers and wood handling equipment. The forklifts are primarily used in ports, the wood and paper industry and the heavy-duty industry (including steel and aluminum works). All Svetruck forklift used by Volvo - Cummins - or Scania - diesel driven.

Svetruck AB has offices in Sweden , Germany , Belgium , the Netherlands , Norway and the USA . There are also agencies and representative offices in another 50 countries. Svetruck's German office is located in Hamburg .

One competitor is the Finnish company Cargotec , which operates under the brand name KALMAR in the field of heavy-duty forklifts.

literature

  • Walter Rödig, Gerhard Vogel: Dr. Rödig's encyclopedia of industrial trucks . 6th edition AGT Verlag Thum 2001, ISBN 978-3-87009-007-4 .

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