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IFOY AWARDS 2021 honour winners in six categories Cargotec Ireland, the Dundalk based manufacturer of the MOFFETT truck-mounted forklift range, was among the six winners of the prestigious annual International Intralogistics & Forklift Truck of the Year. The awards ceremony, which took place for the first time at the German Football Museum in Dortmund, honoured arculus, idealworks, Interroll Group, STILL, VOLUME Lagersysteme and Cargotec. Deemed as the “Oscars of intralogistics” - the IFOY AWARD is the most important intralogistics awards programme in the world, as explained by the organisation’s Chairwoman Anita Würmser. “In 2021, fourteen international companies entered seventeen products and solutions in this the ninth round of the award.” “The winners of the IFOY AWARDs 2021 have once again demonstrated that businesses can be innovative and forward-thinking even in persistent pandemic times and bring top products to the market that have a significant effect on the future of intralogistics,” she emphasised. Cargotec Ireland won its first IFOY AWARD in the ‘Special Vehicle’ category with its second generation MOFFETT E4-25.3NX, the world’s first fully electric truck-mounted forklift. According to the jury, the emission-free and low-noise truck is unique in its class. It has three-wheel drive as well as numerous safety features and convinced the jury in the IFOY test on multiple levels, including its economic efficiency and high performance.
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The winner in the ‘Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV)’ category was the BMW subsidiary idealworks with its autonomous mobile robot (AMR) the iw.hub. Originally developed for in-house use, the AMR is now freely available on the market and can be implemented very easily in just two days without any structural adjustments. It set an example at the IFOY TEST DAYS with its flexibility and other features, also scoring points with its competitive price. In the ‘Special of the Year’ category, the Smart Pallet Mover (SPM) from the Swiss Interroll Group took the honours. This is a new, mobile robot solution for the automation of pallet transport in the areas of production machines and order picking. It convinced testers and the jury not only with its high degree of innovation, but also with an outstanding cost-benefit advantage.
