Your lumber operation faces major hurdles as you try to meet both demand and service expectations while protecting your bottom line.
Luckily, Hyster is ready to provide top-tier material handling solutions for lumber yards and sawmills in the wood industry, with tough forklifts that can enhance your fleet efficiency and reduce downtime. These heavy duty forklift solutions offer a variety of power sources to help you with your sustainability and environmental goals, a robust telemetry solution to support your operation success, and a great number of ergonomic features to help improve forklift operator productivity.
Access to materials, shrinking profit margins and tightening regulation continues to drive the wave of consolidation in the lumber industry.
Dust, dirt, wood chips, rough terrain and outdoor weather conditions can push your materials handling equipment and operators to their limit.
How are you going to keep handling timber and wood efficiently?
Even the most successful companies struggle with recruiting and retaining qualified talent in a tough working environment. Navigating high staff turnover and a limited pool of suitably qualified candidates requires a strong focus on operator needs.
How are you going to reduce turnover?
You face the challenge of meeting strong demand for quality timber products while minimizing adverse effects on the environment and human health.
How will you minimize the impact?
Working in a lumber yard or sawmill can be one of the most dangerous occupations.
How can you help keep your employees safe and reduce incidents?
Exceed your expectations with tough and game changing material handling solutions that deliver efficiency, and can be adapted with specific features ideal for the lumber and wood industry.
Innovations to help reduce downtime and improve safety - ultimately lowering your operating costs.
Your operations are always evolving and so are the material handling solutions designed to help keep your employees safe and reduce incidents.
Discover how telemetry and fleet management can help increase uptime and lower total cost of ownership of your lift trucks.
With the industry’s widest range of power sources from a variety of brands, you can get the very best solution available in today’s market to maximize your operations.
A forklift power source affects an operation’s productivity, labor retention, maintenance costs, sustainability and so much more. Is yours truly optimal?
