Innovation

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• A dialogue

  CEO Gordon Riske and CTO Eike Böhm

  An interview on innovation at the KION Group with Chief Executive Officer Gordon Riske and Chief Technology Officer Eike Böhm.
• Production

  The plant on a greenfield site

  An interview with Sabine Neuß, Chief Operation Officer at Linde.
• Emerging markets

  "Voltas helps us to create value"

  In this warehouse located an hour’s drive from Ahmedabad, tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of brown boxes, each one around twice the size of a shoe box, are stacked up tightly against one another. There’s something quite surreal about the towering racking that fills more than 9,000 square metres here.
• Drive Technology

  Gearing up for the future

  Lower energy consumption, no battery changes and smart additional functions – lithium-ion batteries offer a whole host of advantages for electric forklift trucks. Yet the market is still reacting somewhat hesitantly. But change is on its way and the KION Group is ready.
• Human resources

  "A story of success"

  When Shivaji Bajad first stood in front of one of the trucks that would soon become part of his everyday life, he was full of disbelief. “It looked far too small to lift two or three tonnes,” recalls the 24-year-old from Nandangaon, a village some 500 kilometres from the industrial town of Pune in western India.
• Drive Technology

  The fuel cell ballet

  Hydrogen could become the fuel of the future. Trucks that are powered by fuel cells have long been part of the research programme for the premium brand companies of the KION Group. The technology is already viable and there is great interest from customers. We visit a Mercedes-Benz plant that is piloting the use of hydrogen in a test project.