By Cliona Connolly
Cliona@monaghanpost.com

ONE OF MONAGHAN’S most successful global enterprises, Combilift welcomed nine US customers last week to their headquarters where the full product range was showcased along with new models due to launch in 12 months time.

At this special day-long event, Comblilift announced a twenty per cent growth on last year’s production with the factory on track to produce some 1,750 models this year for worldwide distribution.

“The visit was an opportunity to receive customer feedback on various models and the new ones we are currently developing. The group of customers represent major potential accounts for us such as Lansing Building Products, which have over 70 stores on the East Coast and hope to increase to 100 stores by 2010 and see Combilift’s operating in each one of those,” explained Director of Sales Aidan Mckenna.

The companies from various industry sectors such as building products, manufacturing and distribution collectively have 200 Combilifts in operation mostly in North America and hope to substantially introduce more across their operations. “The customer visit represents a commitment to the US market, our largest market with 30 per cent of all sales in the USA.

“It still remains our largest opportunity or potential market. Other fast growing markets for us are Russia, Middle East including United Arab Emirate and Saudi Arabia and Eastern Europe,” said Mr McKenna.

Combilift create ngine-powered all-wheel-drive multidirectional forklifts. Their forklifts are also side-loaders and are highly maneuverable, very safe, very cost effective and supremely efficient.