Forklift by type, brand to buy the book

Forklift plays a very important role in the enterprise's logistics system, is the main force in the material handling equipment. Especially with the rapid development of China's economy, most enterprises have been out of the raw material handling manual handling, forklift instead is based mechanized handling. Thus, in the past few years, the demand for Chinese forklift market are at double-digit annual growth rate.
Currently on the market to choose from truck brands, models of complex, coupled with strong technology and the product itself is very professional, so the choice of models, vendor selection is a lot to buy companies often face. This paper introduces the model selection, brand selection, performance criteria and other aspects.
First, the model selection
Industry needs models and configurations.
1. Vehicle Classification
Forklift usually be divided into three categories: internal combustion forklifts, electric forklifts and warehouse trucks.
(1) internal combustion forklifts
Internal combustion forklifts are divided into ordinary internal combustion forklifts, heavy trucks, container trucks and sides of the truck.
① ordinary internal combustion Lpg Gas Forklift
Generally use diesel, petrol, LPG or natural gas engine as power, load capacity of 1.2 to 8.0 tons, the operating channel width is generally 3.5 to 5.0 m, taking into account the emissions and noise problems, usually outdoors, workshop or other for exhaust emissions and noise do not require special places. Due to convenient refueling, it can achieve long continuous operation, and competent (such as rain) to work in harsh environments.
② Forklift Trucks
A diesel engine as power, load capacity from 10.0 to 52.0 tons, generally used for heavier cargo terminals, steel and other industries outdoor jobs.
③ Container Handler
A diesel engine as power, load capacity from 8.0 to 45.0 tons, is generally divided into empty forklift, heavy container forklift and reachstacker. Applied to container handling, such as container yard or port terminal operations.
④ Sideloader
A diesel engine as power, load capacity of 3.0 to 6.0 tons. Without turning, with the ability to take the goods directly from the side of the fork, and therefore mainly used fork to take a long bar goods, such as wood, steel and so on.
(2) electric forklift
Electric motor powered, battery energy. Carrying capacity of 1.0 to 4.8 tons, the operating channel width is generally 3.5 to 5.0 m. Since there is no pollution, noise, it is widely used for environmental demanding conditions, such as medicine, food and other industries. Since each cell is generally about eight hours at work needs to be charged, so for multi-shift working condition with battery backup.
(3) warehouse Wheel Driving Diesel Forklift
Warehouse forklift mainly for cargo handling and warehouse forklift design. Apart from a few warehouse forklift (such as manual pallet truck) is the use of human-driven, others are driven by an electric motor, because the body is compact, mobile and flexible, light weight and good environmental performance and have been widely used in the storage industry. When multi-shift operation, the motor-driven warehouse forklift battery backup needed.