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Toyota Material Handling is a total solutions provider, offering the widest range of forklifts and battery-electric warehouse products available in Australia from a single supplier.

THE COMPANYBEHIND THE NAME

TMHA headquaters, Morebank,NSW

LOCAL LEADERSHIP, GLOBAL STRENGTH

Its comprehensive range of world renowned brands offer

a unique combination of counterbalance forklifts, electric

powered pallet trucks, stackers, order pickers and

narrow aisle equipment.

Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) is the

Australian subsidiary of Toyota Industries Corporation

(TICO), the global leader in material handling equipment.

Its local assets include nearly 700 staff, of whom

more than 60 percent are dedicated to service and

parts provision, and a rental fl eet of more than 10,000

vehicles.

The Toyota Material Handling Australia network has

branches and dealerships in every state, with additional

dedicated service centres and a satellite service network

to extend customer support activities nationwide.

Its range of Toyota internal-combustion and battery-

electric counter-balance forklifts extends from 0.9 tonnes

to 24.0 tonnes and has been market leader since 1987,

with cumulative Australian sales exceeding 50,000.

In recent years the company has expanded its focus

from the counterbalance forklift fi eld to become a total

solutions provider for the full range of materials handling

equipment and related services.

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The change was facilitated in 2000 by Toyota’s global

acquisition of the BT Industries Group, incorporating the

BT Lift Truck and Raymond Forklift brands. The combined

group is now the world leader in terms of sales and

turnover according to respected international publication,

DHF Intralogistik, which has named TICO as the global

number one in material handling equipment for 2010-11.

The local benefi ts of this global realignment have

allowed Toyota Material Handling to use the synergies of

the expanded group to offer equipment solutions which

more closely match customer needs than has even been

possible before.

Prior to the acquisition, BT was the world leader in

warehouse trucks and Toyota was the world leader

in counterbalanced trucks. BT and Toyota’s forklift

operations complement each other geographically, as

well as in terms of products, resources and expertise.

As a result of the acquisition, Toyota became a full line

supplier, realising greater effi ciencies, higher service

levels, more fl exible production and maximising the

potential of BT Lift Truck and Raymond Forklift brands.

These premium brands are now sold and supported

in Australia as specialised options within the range of

material handling solutions available through Toyota

Material Handling Australia.

Australian consolidation was crowned in 2007 with the

establishment of a state of the art facility at Moorebank

NSW, combining a national headquarters and NSW

branch operation on one 34,000 square metre site

designed to accommodate future growth.

Facilities include a massive parts centre and a 59

bay workshop to perform pre-delivery work on new

machines, as well as servicing a rental fl eet exceeding

4,000 units for NSW customers.

The service workshop is equipped with specialised tools

and equipment to carry out maintenance and repair work

which cannot be done in the fi eld.

State of the art training resources include an online

E-Training facility which includes course curriculum

material for technical training as well as all up to date

technical manuals and product literature which can be

accessed through an on-line portal by staff and dealers

throughout Australia.

TMHA has invested heavily in all aspects of its

operations to anticipate the needs of the Australian

material handling equipment market in which its share

now stands at over 30 per cent.

The Moorebank facility alone can support annual vehicle

throughput of up to 3,000 units including the three major

forklift brands of Toyota, BT and Raymond, as well as

aircraft towing tractors and ‘Huski’ skid steer loaders for

the earthmoving and construction industries.

The Toyota name has been a signifi cant part of the

Australian material handling scene for over four

decades, since the local operation became one of its

parent company’s early export markets.

Toyota, which is widely acknowledged as the world’s

best manufacturing organisation, began industrial

equipment production in 1956 in Japan, a little more than

20 years after producing its fi rst automobile.

Toyota has grown to become a global brand represented

in 170 countries, with annual sales exceeding ten million

vehicles. Its material handling equipment operations

have followed a parallel path to world leadership.

Through its Toyota, BT and Raymond brands the

company has committed itself to the principle of kaizen,

to steadily improve its products and expand the range of

material handling options they provide.

Toyota material handling products have become

market leaders in Australia and throughout the world

by providing the highest levels of safety, reliability,

performance and productivity.

‘Toyota has grown to become a global brand represented in 170 countries, with annual sales exceeding ten million vehicles.’

‘Facilities include a massive parts centre and a 59 bay workshop to perform pre-delivery work on new machines, as well as servicing a rental fl eet exceeding 4,000 units for NSW customers.’

Toyota is the world’s largest supplier of counterbalance forklifts. Toyota Material Handling Australia provides the widest range of forklifts and battery-electric warehouse products.

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Members of Toyota Material Handling’s Victorian service team and their vehicles.

1956: Toyota Industrial Equipment production begins in Japan.

1958: First export of Toyota forklifts from Japan.

1968: First Toyota forklift imported into Australia.

1985: 500,000th Toyota forklift produced.

1995: One millionth Toyota forklift produced.

1996: 25,000th Toyota forklift sold into Australia.

1997: Sales of Toyota forklifts exceed US$1,092 million.

1999: Worldwide Sales and Supply network covering 169 countries and 699 Dealers.

1999: 30,000th Toyota forklift sold into Australia.

1999: Toyota wins National Occupational Health & Safety “Solutions Award” for its Swing-down gas bottle bracket.

2000: 1.3 millionth Toyota forklift produced.

2000: Toyota acquires BT Industries, maker of BT Lift Trucks and Raymond forklifts.

2000: Toyota combines all its lift truck operations in a single business area called Toyota Material Handling.

2003: Worldwide Sales and Supply Network covering 170 countries, 80 distributors and 675 sales outlets.

2003: Toyota Industries Corporation Australia Pty Ltd (TICA) established in Australia to distribute and sell Toyota Industrial Equipment.

2004: Toyota Industries Corporation Australia (TICA) wins TICO’s 2004 Global Excellence Award.

2006: Toyota 8-Series 1.0 - 3.5 tonne forklift range released in Australia

2006: Toyota Australian counter-balance forklift market leader for 20 consecutive years.

2007: New Toyota Material Handling Australia national headquarters facility established at Moorebank, NSW.

2008: Toyota Material Handling celebrates 40 years of retailing the Toyota Industrial Equipment brand of products within Australia.

2011: Toyota has retained its position as the world’s largest supplier of forklifts, according to industry magazine DHF Intralogistik.

2011: Toyota Australian counter-balance forklift market leader for 25 consecutive years.

2011: Toyota Material Handling is Australia’s Number One forklift company according to statistics released by the Australian Industrial Truck Association December 2011.

MAJOR MILESTONES IN TOYOTA MATERIAL HANDLING’S HISTORY:

‘The Moorebank facility alone can support annual vehiclethroughput of up to 3,000 units including the three majorforklift brands of Toyota, BT and Raymond.’