Lumber

The pressure to meet demand and shorten lead times

Demand for lumber is expected to reach close to 52 billion board feet by 2023. Is your operation equipped to handle it?

Challenges

Transform Your Greatest Challenges into Opportunities

Heavy Consolidation

Access to materials, shrinking profit margins and tightening regulation continues to drive the wave of consolidation in the lumber industry.

How are you going to win?

  • Right-size your fleet and extend the useful life of equipment
  • Use telematics to help drive efficiency and lower operating costs
  • Deploy a balanced combination of lift trucks to get the job done right
Dominate the market

Labor Retention

Even the most successful companies struggle with recruiting and retaining qualified talent in a tough working environment.

How are you going to reduce turnover?

  • Offer advanced ergonomic lift truck solutions to help reduce musculoskeletal problems
  • Implement training and development programs to keep your team engaged
  • Minimize downtime to keep your workforce moving
Deploy the right solutions

Environmental Impact

You face the challenge of meeting strong demand for quality timber products while minimizing adverse effects on the environment and human health.

How are you going to minimize the impact?

  • Source from suppliers who strive for a greener supply chain
  • Develop a recycling plan for by-products of your operation
  • Embrace alternative power sources in your lift trucks
Exceed sustainability goals

Safety

Working in a mill or lumberyard can be a dangerous occupation.

How can you help keep your employees safe and reduce incidents?

  • Establish a culture of safety starting at the top and adopted by all
  • Use telematics to track lift truck access and provide training updates
  • Enhance visibility and operator protection with next generation equipment
Help minimize risk and maximize compliance

Tough Environments

Dust, dirt and debris along with rough terrain can push your materials handling equipment and operators to their limit.

How are you going to keep product moving?

  • Use trucks designed for the unique demands of handling lumber
  • Maximize productivity with high performance lift trucks offering low maintenance costs
  • Install equipment to defend against dust and debris
Combat the tough conditions

Solutions

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Embracing new technologies across the entire wood industry lifecycle.

Proven Approaches

Demonstrated to achieve results

Innovations to help reduce downtime and improve safety - ultimately lowering your operating costs.

Protect the bottom line

Extract actionable insights from lift truck telematics to help improve efficiency and productivity.

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Enhance productivity through safety

Reduce costs and boost employee performance with a comprehensive lift truck safety program.

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Unlock cost savings and performance

Offering the broadest variety of power options - unrestricting your choice and a power solution built around your unique requirements for costs, labor, maintenance, emissions, space and more.

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