We use cookies to provide you with a better experience. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy.
  • ::COVID-19 COVERAGE::
  • INDUSTRY PRESS ROOM
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT
  • MEDIA FILE
  • Create Account
  • Sign In
  • Sign Out
  • My Account
Free Newsletters
  • MAGAZINE
    • Current Issue
    • Archives
    • Digital Edition
    • Subscribe
    • Newsletters
    • Mobile Apps
  • TRANSPORTATION
  • MATERIAL HANDLING
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • LIFT TRUCKS
  • PODCAST ETC.
    • Podcast
    • Blogs
      • Analytics & Big Data
      • Best Practices
      • Dispatches
      • Empowering Your Performance Edge
      • Logistics Problem Solving
      • One-Off Sound Off
      • Public Sector Logistics
      • Two Sides of the Logistics Coin
      • Submit your blog post
    • Events
    • White Papers
    • Industry Press Room
      • Upload Your News
    • New Products
      • Upload Your Product News
    • Conference Guides
    • Conference Reports
    • Newsletters
    • Mobile Apps
  • DCV-TV
    • DCV-TV 1: News
    • DCV-TV 2: Case Studies
    • DCV-TV 3: Webcasts
    • DCV-TV 4: Viewer Contributed
    • DCV-TV 5: Solution Profiles
    • MODEX 2020
    • Upload Your Video
  • MAGAZINE
    • Current Issue
    • Archives
    • Digital Edition
    • Subscribe
    • Newsletters
    • Mobile Apps
  • TRANSPORTATION
  • MATERIAL HANDLING
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • LIFT TRUCKS
  • PODCAST ETC.
    • Podcast
    • Blogs
      • Analytics & Big Data
      • Best Practices
      • Dispatches
      • Empowering Your Performance Edge
      • Logistics Problem Solving
      • One-Off Sound Off
      • Public Sector Logistics
      • Two Sides of the Logistics Coin
      • Submit your blog post
    • Events
    • White Papers
    • Industry Press Room
      • Upload Your News
    • New Products
      • Upload Your Product News
    • Conference Guides
    • Conference Reports
    • Newsletters
    • Mobile Apps
  • DCV-TV
    • DCV-TV 1: News
    • DCV-TV 2: Case Studies
    • DCV-TV 3: Webcasts
    • DCV-TV 4: Viewer Contributed
    • DCV-TV 5: Solution Profiles
    • MODEX 2020
    • Upload Your Video
Home » Combilift opens new headquarters and manufacturing facility
newsworthy

Combilift opens new headquarters and manufacturing facility

May 1, 2018
DC Velocity Staff
No Comments
Combilift facility in Ireland

Celebrating 20 years as a manufacturer of forklifts, Combilift has built its brand on niche markets, including handling long products—such as pipes, lumber, and steel—as well as narrow-aisle warehouse applications.

After two decades, this niche strategy has created a company that is now the 13th largest forklift producer worldwide. But that success steadily pushed Combilift beyond the limits of its former manufacturing facility in Monaghan, Ireland. As a result, the company recently opened a new 500,000-square-foot production and parts distribution center in Monaghan, with additional space for its international corporate offices. Combilift welcomed customers, dealers, suppliers, and trade press from North America to a grand opening celebration of the new building on Monday.

The facility boasts four manufacturing lines, but it can be expanded to six lines as future growth dictates. It also features state-of-the-art metal cutting systems, environmentally]=friendly paint booths that use water-soluble paints, rooftop solar panels, water-saving systems, and specialized production processes that allow customized vehicles to move through the facility from fabrication to finished product within seven days.

Additionally, the company has ample space for new product development. "Seven percent of our revenue goes into research and development," said Martin McVicar, co-founder and managing director of Combilift. "Most of our new products come from our customers. We listen to their challenges and design products that solve their problems," he said.

McVicar added that Combilift is expecting major growth in the North American market. Some 25 percent of all sales are to customers in the United States and Canada, and the company is targeting sales growth of at least 30 percent in 2018. To date, Combilift said, it is already trending above that target.

Combilift's major customers in North America are steel fabricators and lumber and building-materials companies that use Combilift's straddle carriers and laterally moving forklifts for hauling long materials throughout facilities. On the warehouse side, the company's line of Combi-CS walkie pallet jacks and Aisle-Master articulated forklifts are potential growth areas, as they are adapted to narrow-aisle warehouse configurations and confined work areas. They can work comfortably in 6- and 7-foot-wide aisles, respectively.

Combilift only builds to customer orders, as all of their vehicles are customized to specific requirements. The new facility can currently produce 110 customized vehicles each week, but Combilift hopes to increase that amount to 140 vehicles weekly by the end of the year.

Material Handling Internal Movement Lift Trucks, Personnel & Burden Carriers
KEYWORDS Combilift
  • Related Articles

    Blickle Opens New U.S. Manufacturing, Distribution, Training & Test Facility

    Interroll opens new manufacturing and distribution facility

    New manufacturing facility demonstrates MCFA's commitment to electric vehicles, U.S. manufacturing

  • Related Events

    Hypermotion

Recent Articles by DC Velocity Staff

U.S. Xpress makes “significant investment” in self-driving tech vendor

Truckload carrier predicts challenging year ahead for industry

Train kept a rollin’

You must login or register in order to post a comment.

Report Abusive Comment

Most Popular Articles

  • Cold chain giant Lineage Logistics buys its own rail operator

  • Outlook 2021: What’s in store for logistics supply chain?

  • Cushman & Wakefield Brokers Sale of 170 Acres plus Lease for 1MSF Build-to-Suit for Home Improvement Retailer in Commerce City, CO.

  • Thriving in the long haul: interview with Colin Yankee

  • Capacity challenges will continue in 2021

Now Playing on DCV-TV

2mw 01 18 21 thumb

LTL Carriers Using Yield Management Techniques to Identify New Accessorial Charges

DCV-TV 4: Viewer Contributed
As we head into 2021, shippers are not too optimistic about negotiating rates with their carriers. The reason for this, as highlighted in the three CODE RED Webcasts we've hosted with our friends from CSCMP and NASSTRAC, is that in today's transportation marketplace, shippers are operating in uncharted waters. With...

FEATURED WHITE PAPERS

  • Proven Benefits: A Compendium of Slotting Optimization Success Snapshots

  • Bridging Information Gaps in Dock and Yard Operations

  • How Intelligent Sensor Solutions Turn Data Into Action

  • Order picking Solutions: Understanding Your Options

View More

Subscribe to DC Velocity Magazine

GET YOUR FREE SUBSCRIPTION
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • NEWSLETTERS
  • ADVERTISING
  • CUSTOMER CARE
  • CONTACT
  • ABOUT
  • STAFF
  • PRIVACY POLICY

Copyright ©2021. All Rights ReservedDesign, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing