There may be nothing spectacular happening in the big lift truck/reach stacker industry just now, but in the prevailing "buyer's market" suppliers are certainly feeling the squeeze, on initial price and on service and backup levels demanded.
It is also hard for suppliers to recoup R&D costs associated with new legislation because by definition everybody has to comply with it. Any edge can come only from better cost control and delivering machines with even greater reliability levels and lower life cycle costs....
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