Flagship project implemented successfully

STILL, the Hamburg based intralogistics specialist, successfully implemented a pioneering project in the area of lithium ion technology (LI-Ion) in April 2016. The first major customer, the food manufacturer Brüggen, has converted its truck fleet at the Lübeck site to STILL’s Li-Ion technology. STILL delivered a total of 66 new counterbalance trucks together with low- and high lift pallet trucks in various models to the Brüggen company.

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The future is electric mobility

The successful implementation of this major project using Li-Ion industrial trucks underlines STILL’s ambition to tackle the subject of electric mobility vigorously, and to offer 90% of its trucks with Li-Ion batteries by 2017. The company plans to present other new trucks using Li-Ion technology at theCeMAT 2016 trade fair taking place from May 31 to June 3 in Hanover, including order pickers in the CX model series, towing tractors, low lift and double decker trucks in the EXU-S und EXD-S model series and a counterbalance truck in the RX 20 model series. 

An initial stocktaking after completion of the major project shows that the Brüggen company, after extensive consultation and a thorough operations analysis by STILL, has been able to use Li-Ion trucks to exploit their efficiency potentials without compromise, and to reduce operating costs considerably.