400,000th Forklift Rolls Off Yale Production Line

History was made in Craigavon, Northern Ireland on 19 January when the 400,000th forklift truck came off the Yale production line. To celebrate the achievement, Yale Europe Materials Handling then made the largest single charitable donation in its history – employees marked the milestone by handing over the keys to the Veracitor VX model to international charity Oxfam, for use at its distribution centre in Bicester, Oxfordshire. It will be used for many years to come in the charity’s disasters response warehouse.

Iain Friar, Yale brand manager, said: “We are all incredibly proud that the 400,000th truck has been produced here in Craigavon, and we wanted to celebrate the contribution made by so many people in achieving that milestone.

“Yale is committed to ‘people, products and productivity’ and we firmly believe that it is our people who have put us where we are today. The 400,000th truck is the embodiment of the innovative approach and loyalty we receive from our Yale people.

“We wanted to choose a charity with the same ethos as Yale, an organisation like ourselves that has people at its core. Not only is Oxfam internationally recognised for helping people in need, we felt that one of our forklift trucks would actually be of real benefit to its operation.”