Linde – For your Performance
Linde Material Handling develops high-performance material flow solutions tailored to individual customer needs, with which users achieve sustainable competitive advantages. The company is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of forklift trucks and warehouse equipment and has been setting standards for solutions for industrial trucks, fleet management, driver assistance systems and service offerings for more than 50 years.
Linde Material Handling Ireland Ltd. was established over 35 years ago and is now one of Ireland’s largest providers of material handling equipment, pallet racking, and training services. We have a large number of solutions that range from short term rentals, to full turnkey warehouse solutions, enabling us to be the number one choice for our extensive customer network.
Our large customer base includes the complete cross section of Irish businesses, fulfilling the needs of small, family run SME’s, while also delivering specialist services to the largest multinationals operating in Ireland today. We understand that every customer’s requirements are unique, which is why we don’t employ a one for all strategy. After an initial consultation, our expert consultants take the time to develop a solution tailored to your exact requirements, ensuring a straight forward and easy to implement package for you and your team. Our dedicated teams of specialists across all divisions of our company work tirelessly to ensure a seamless integration of our solutions into your working environment.
While we are focused on ensuring ease of use for our customers, safety is at the heart of everything that we do. As part of our “Zero Accidents” philosophy, we are working hard to lead the charge in developing, implementing and perfecting technologies and standards that will see the prevention of 100% of accidents in intralogistics. We believe this can be achieved through products that set new records in safety thanks to their design, service offers which enable people to optimally configure their working environments, and innovative digital solutions that help operators to continually improve their processes.
KEY FACTS
- Around 13,000 people worldwide are working for the Linde brand.
- With production and development resources in all relevant regions, Linde is adressing the specific requirements of local markets.
- Linde employees are taking care of customers’ needs at more than 700 sales and services facilities in over 100 countries.
- A network of more than 8,500 service technicians ensures maximum availability of Linde trucks and solutions.
- Based on its worldwide logistics network Linde guarantees spare part delivery within 24 hours.
PROFILE
Linde Material Handling is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of forklift trucks and warehouse equipment. In Europe, the company is the market leader with the Linde and Fenwick (France) brands. Since 2006, Linde has been part of the KION Group. The KION Group is the world’s second largest manufacturer of industrial trucks and one of the leading suppliers of automation solutions for intralogistics.
Linde is represented in more than 100 countries worldwide with its own branches. The company’s international network includes production and assembly plants in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, the USA and China as well as more than 700 sales and service locations.
For its customers, Linde develops high-performance solutions for intralogistics. The basis for this are electric and diesel forklift trucks, warehouse equipment, fleet management software, automation solutions, driver assistance systems, financing offers as well as services around the forklift truck and operator training.
Linde’s vehicle offer is unique. It comprises 77 series with up to 382 model variants and around 10,000 equipment options. On the basis of this modular system, Linde manufactures the vehicles and fleets precisely tailored to their requirements for transport, storage, picking and stacking.
PERFORMANCE
Creating values together
As in other industries, digital networking, automation and the demand for more and more individual products are also driving technological change in intralogistics. However, this change has different effects in every company. Linde Material Handling helps its customers align their material management with these new challenges.
In doing so, they can rely on the great strength of Linde: there is no product off the shelf at Linde. Technological innovations are only implemented if they achieve sustainable customer benefit. Customers receive well thought-out solutions that meet the individual requirements of their application to 100 percent.
Productivity, safety and ergonomics are the key guiding principles.
PRODUCTIVITY
Efficient forklift trucks are the backbone of efficient intra-company logistics. Together with intelligent software and comprehensive service packages, operators achieve lasting competitive advantages.
SAFETY
The safety of people, trucks, and goods is the central idea of Linde Material Handling’s Zero Accident Philosophy. With integrated solutions, Linde is working toward a future of safer intralogistics.
ERGONOMICS
The best solutions arise when humans and technology work together in perfect harmony. The principle of ergonomic design therefore strongly informs Linde Material Handling’s development of trucks and services.
OUR VALUES
COMPLIANCE
We have a special responsibility to our customers, business partners, employees, the environment and society. Clear rules are important to our company’s success, as they contribute to reducing risks, ensure compliance with laws and regulations, and ultimately, raise the company’s performance. Compliance serves this purpose.
HISTORY
The roots of Linde Material Handling date back to the beginning of the 20th century. Together with Hugo Güldner and Georg von Krauss, Carl von Linde founds the Güldner-Motoren-Gesellschaft in Munich in 1904. Three years later the company moves to Aschaffenburg. In 1929, the Gesellschaft für Linde’s Eismaschinen AG, founded by Carl von Linde in 1879, took over the Güldner-Motoren-Gesellschaft. In 1955 the development of the first vehicle with a hydrostatic drive and the first truck with this drive concept in 1960 laid the foundation for Linde’s rise to one of the world’s largest manufacturers of forklift trucks and warehouse equipment. Find out more about the company’s milestones in the chronicle.