Hyster Manufacturing

Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Area: 63,600 sq. m
Built: 1952 - 1981
Number of Employees: 570

Nijmegen is the home of the Big Trucks: This plant has a special place in the history of the Hyster brand as it was the first manufacturing site to be set up by the company in Europe, with counterbalance trucks being first produced here in 1952. By the late sixties, container-handling trucks were also being manufactured here.

Today all HYSTER forklifts over 8 tonnes are manufactured here4 as well as Empty and Laden container handlers and reach stackers.

In 1997, Nijmegen became the global centre for Big Truck Development, supported by a modern DFT-driven manufacturing facility, which today provides the worldwide requirement of Big Trucks. The plant houses the following functions, dedicated to this important segment of the Hyster product range:

• Product Design & Development team
  
  
• Big Trucks Special Engineering Department (SPED)
  
  
• State of the art Technical Centre for new product testing

The investment in expertise at Hyster’s Nijmegen plant is already having a major influence on the development of Hyster’s Big Truck market presence across the globe.

Today the site covers a total of 63,600m2 and in addition to Big Truck development and production; Nijmegen is the European centre for the following:

• Customer service & aftermarket support
  
  
• Parts storage & distribution and
  
  
• Product & service training

A total 620 people work at the site, including some 380 in manufacturing and 240 in aftermarket functions.