Yale Materials Handling Corporation is an American corporation that produces
forklift truck
A forklift (also called lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances. The forklift was developed in the early 20th century by various c ...
s and other material handling equipment. The company was
started as a lock manufacturer by Linus Yale Jr. in 1840. Yale produced its first forklift truck in the 1920s under the name
Yale & Towne Manufacturing. The company was purchased in 1985 by the North American Coal Corporation (
NACCO
NACCO Industries, Inc. is an American publicly traded holding company, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Through a portfolio of mining and natural resources businesses, the company operates under three business segments: Coal Mining, North Americ ...
), which later became NACCO Industries, Inc. Yale Materials Handling Corporation was combined with Hyster Company, also purchased by NACCO, in 1989 to form NACCO Materials Handling Group. NACCO Materials Handling Group was then spun off as a separate public company from NACCO in 2012, under the name
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc., through its wholly owned operating subsidiary, Hyster-Yale Group, Inc., designs, engineers, manufactures, sells and services a comprehensive line of lift trucks and aftermarket parts marketed globally primaril ...
, Inc.
References
External links
Official WebsiteLinde Material Handling
Forklift truck manufacturers
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