Bolzoni in China

BOLZONI IN CHINA

LIFT TRUCK ATTACHMENTS - FORKS - LIFT TABLES

BOLZONI IS ONE OF THE WORLDWIDE LEADING MANUFACTURERS OF LIFT TRUCK ATTACHMENTS, FORKS AND LIFT TABLES, WITH THE MOST EXTENSIVE PRODUCT RANGE IN THE MARKET.

WE ARE BOLZONI, THE MATERIAL HANDLING GROUP BOLZONI LONGHUA TOWN

WUXI

IN CHINA

BOLZONI Group started business in China in 1998, when the Tiger company, one of key players in South East Asia in material handling & logistics, became Bolzoni Auramo’s distributor for China. In 2004 the huge growth potential of the Chinese market motivated Bolzoni to invest in China, by opening a new subsidiary in the Shanghai area. Bolzoni Auramo (Shanghai) Forklift Truck Attachment Co., Ltd., was both a manufacturing and sales facility supplying the Chinese market with fork lift truck attachments, and providing after sales services and spare parts support. To further strengthen its position in China, Asia and Pacific areas and better serve these markets, BOLZONI decided to set up two further production plants: • Bolzoni-Huaxin (HEBEI) Forks Manufacturing Co., Ltd. opened in May 2012 - for the production of Bolzoni forks in China • Bolzoni-Auramo (WUXI) Forklift Truck Attachment Co., Ltd. opened in March 2013 - for the production of attachments for fork lift trucks and side shifters Our Manufacturing Plants

WUXI Bolzoni-Auramo (WUXI) Forklift Truck Attachment Co., Ltd.

Plant based in Wuxi (Xishan District, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province). 160 km from Shanghai port.

Land size: 45.200 sq.m.

Building size: 15.000 sq.m.

The factory is located in the industrial district of Xishan, with high availability of technicians. Proximity to the Shanghai port and the good transportation access allow speedy deliveries to both local and long distance markets. This production plant is dedicated to the manufacturing of attachments for fork lift trucks and side shifters. Besides the activities connected to the sales of new forklift truck attachments, Bolzoni-Auramo (Wuxi) guarantees our customers a well- equipped stock of attachments locally manufactured, spare parts supply, rental, repair, refurbishing, service in-house or on customer site. The team includes experienced engineers to satisfy specific customer requirements.

Target Markets Bolzoni-Auramo (Wuxi) principally acts as the nerve centre for Asia and Pacific markets but also serves Europe and America for specific needs.

Technology This state-of-the-art manufacturing plant involves highly trained and skilled personnel, specialized equipment and a combination of traditional and sophisticated production methods and technology.

Manufacturing Process There are numerous phases in the production process: • Thermal cutting • Saw cutting • Bending • Welding • Machining • Sand-blasting • Painting • Assembly • Testing

Quality In accordance with the Group policy, Bolzoni-Auramo (Wuxi) is totally committed to continuous quality improvement, from product design to after-sale service, providing excellence to customers worldwide. Analysis instruments, stringent quality controls, technical support and tests allow Bolzoni-Auramo (Wuxi) to supply quality products satisfying all customer requirements.

To guarantee the complete control over the quality, all production phases, from raw material to the finished product, are performed internally. Our Manufacturing Plants

Longhua Town Bolzoni-Huaxin (HEBEI) Forks Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Plant based in Longhua Town (Jing County, Hebei). 250 km south west of Beijing.

Land size: 45.000 sq.m.

Building size: 16.000 sq.m.

Bolzoni-Huaxin (HEBEI) is the result of a joint venture between BOLZONI SpA, Italy (60%) and Hebei Jing County Huaxin Forks Co. Ltd., China (40%). The factory is located in the new industrial district of Longhua strongly vocated to fork manufacturing, guaranteeing a highly specialized workforce on this product. The high concentration of steel factories ensures a constant flow of raw material. The location in an area logistically well served, thanks to the proximity to the Highway and the Tianjin port, means excellent lead times for products. The initial plant production capacity of 200.000 pieces per year can be increased to 500.000 per year. The forks produced range from 1 to 6 ton capacity for hook-on standard ISO class versions up 15 ton capacity for special application versions.

Target Markets Thanks to the extensive BOLZONI Group sales network, forks are distributed worldwide. The Bolzoni-Huaxin (HEBEI) stock provides forks to China, the majority of Asian markets, Europe and USA.

Technology The production in Bolzoni-Huaxin (HEBEI) combines both advanced technologies and efficient high-capacity processes, and includes: • Prime quality steel offering good welding characteristics and strong resistance to wear. • Innovative and highly automated production process, • Automated welding of upper and lower hooks with a robotic system, granting better quality of the welding, quality repeatability and higher process speed, • Complete heat treatment with hardening and tempering on the entire fork, providing the best quality and reliability.

Manufacturing Process There are numerous phases in the production process: • Bar cutting: saw machine • Sand blasting: multi-directional sand • Taper cutting: flame cutting machine blasting machine • Tip cutting: plasma cutting • Heel shot peening: shot peening • Grinding: belt sander machine • Preheating: induction oven • Quality controls: dimensional - • Bending: press machine magnetic fault detection • Robot hook welding • Painting: automatic painting line • Full heat treatment: hardening - • Assembly and stamping: manual quenching - tempering hook pin assembly and stamping

Quality Certified quality of chemical composition and of the heat treatment applied on raw material used. Bar coding allowing for the tracking of raw material back to source. All forks produced comply with the parameters outlined in ISO 2328 and 2330. In order to satisfy these standards, each different type of forks is subjected to the following tests: • 1 fatigue test of 1,000,000 cycles at 25% overload • 1 static test of 2 cycles with triple nominal capacity • 1 resilience test at -20°C with a resulting value higher than 27 Joules our PRODUCTS

Paper Roll Clamps

Pulp Bale Clamps and Waste Paper Bale Clamps

Sideshifters and Fork Positioners

Multi Pallet Handlers

Parallel Clamps Carton Clamps

Push Pulls

Rotators

Specialized Products

Forks OUR Customized Through the BOLZONI AURAMO and MEYER product brands, the BOLZONI Group offers a complete range of attachments, conceived with the purpose of optimizing each specific handling requirement, allowing forklift operators to extend the application field, the versatility and the performance of lift trucks.

With our products we serve material handling industries in the area of forest products, white goods, logistics, food and beverage, chemistry, automotive and many others.

Our know-how, our vocation for innovation and our dedication to quality are at the hearth our products.

Paper industry

BOLZONI AURAMO provides its specialistic attachments know-how for forest products handling to paper industry and to many transport, shipping and logistics companies all around the world, through to the widest range of attachments, models, capacities and options. BOLZONI AURAMO is in close co-operating with the global paper industry in order to find the best and most innovative solutions for forest product handling.

Beverage industry

MEYER supplies a wide choice of pallet handler models, capacities, widths and fork openings, to satisfy the requirements of all industries where there is a heavy handling of palletized loads and, in particular, soft drink industries, breweries, mineral water bottling plants, food industries, brick industries.

Solutions

White goods industry

Our Group offers a wide range of carton and appliances clamps developed for safe and damage-free palletless handling of white goods and high-volume carton boxes in appliance and electronics, warehousing and beverage industries. Our experience allows us to deliver tailor-made solutions in the event of different combinations between load types and configurations, typically found when handling washing machines, refrigerators, microwave ovens, televisions and other appliances.

OEM

Over the years, our business with OEMs has developed to mutual satisfaction and today we are world leader in the market of OEM factory installed products and approved supplier for all the main fork lift truck manufacturers. A wide range of integral and hook-on sideshifters, fork positioners and forks are installed at the factories of lift trucks manufacturers. As a result of our expertise and our flexibility in responding to varying material handling requirements, we have become particularly skilled in providing “tailor made solutions”. Thanks to the excellent manufacturing system and the high performance level of our products, we are strategic partners for the top players in the forklift industry worldwide able to apply the highest standards of organization and productivity, providing maximum safety and quality of the products and a global service for logistics needs. Production site OUR GLOBAL Commercial subsidiary NETWORK Associated company Independent distributor

Holding

Our Production Plants

Italy USA Piacenza Homewood - Illinois 20.500 sqm. 4.000 sqm.

Finland China Helsinki Longhua - Hebei District 5.400 sqm. 16.300 sqm.

Germany China Salzgitter Wuxi - Xishan District 9.600 sqm. 15.000 sqm. 000000000 – 0.0M 1013 EN

BOLZONI S.p.A. Headquarters 29027 Casoni di Podenzano (Piacenza) Italy Tel: +39 0523 55 55 11 Fax: +39 0523 52 40 87 www.bolzonigroup.com

Bolzoni-Auramo (WUXI) Forklift Truck Attachment Co., Ltd. Antai 2nd Road NO. 2566, Xishan District, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, 214106 P.R.China Tel: +86-510-8853-5365 [email protected]

Bolzoni-Huaxin (HEBEI) Forks Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Industrial Base of Longhua Town Jing County, Hebei Province P.R.China Tel: +86-0318-5835-388 [email protected]