Yanmar launches its range of wheel loaders in Europe

Yanmar Construction Equipment announces the launch in 2015 of its range of wheel loaders on the European market. The range will include four models: two available end of 2015 and two other current 2016. These products will be manufactured by the Italian company VF Venieri SpA.

The long-term contract between the two companies will be signed during Intermat in Paris.

New products to complete Yanmar range

The aim for Yanmar is expanding its range with new complementary products for hydraulic compact excavators, and strengthen its presence in the compact equipment.

VF Venieri and Yanmar are cooperating for many years for the distribution of products and cooperated for the design of the new range of wheel loaders, that do the synthese between robustness and quality of Japanese products, and italian industrial performance.

The first two models which are named V7 and V8 will be launched in late 2015. These machines have a capacity of 0.7 and 0.8 m3 and will be equipped with a Yanmar engine 4TNV88 of 50 hp.

In 2016, the range will extend to products with a capacity of more than 1m3 respecting the last Tier3b emission standard for engines over 50 hp.

These products represent a sales volume of 10 000 units per year in Europe, with France, Germany and Scandinavia as main markets.