SUMMER 2022
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Jungheinrich Ireland celebrates its 20th Anniversary Ireland’s leading material handling solutions provider Jungheinrich Ireland celebrated its 20th anniversary on 30 May 2022. Starting out as Boss Trucks in 1963, the company that was to become Jungheinrich originally operated from Sherriff Street in Dublin city before moving to Cookstown Industrial Estate as well as establishing a branch in Cork. In 2002, Boss Trucks was acquired by the Hamburg-based family business Jungheinrich AG. Under the new ownership the company moved to a new headquarters in Maynooth, County Kildare in 2007 and also invested in a new premises in Cork two years later. Since its inception in 2002, the company has grown from 56 staff to in excess of 100 currently in Ireland. Jungheinrich continues to strive to be Ireland’s leading material handling
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solutions provider, offering new and used forklift options, warehouse design from layout to installation, automated solutions, short-term forklift hire, driver training and finance options, as well as an online shop for manual and electric pallet trucks. Over 50 engineers are out on the road nationwide, providing the best possible aftersales support to the company’s continuously growing customer base. Progress in the material handling landscape has been both evolution-
ary and revolutionary over the past twenty years. Evolving from what were once basic forklifts to smart configurated trucks, the benefits of improved technology and integration with software and systems has allowed Jungheinrich to provide increasingly efficient options for its customers. Over the past several years, and with the topic of sustainability being at the forefront of businesses operational decisions, there has been an exponential shift in demand from diesel
