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Above: Choice Chips has a 1200 square-metre warehouse with a 220 pallet-capacity Inset: Toyota forklifts and reach trucks can handle any pallet required
Choice Chips, based in the light-industrial suburb of Wangara, Western Australia, services three-quarters of Perth’s metropolitan area fish and chip shops, weekly delivering over 65 tonnes of chips alone.
Owner Michael Xydas says he bought a used two-tonne Toyota forklift when he first started his business, 26 years ago, and that it served him well for seven or eight years before he sold it.
“Back then, I was making the chips. Now we have a factory do the chips,” Xydas explains.
“We have a 1,200 square-metre warehouse with a big 220 pallet capacity, 350 square-metre freezer,” he says.
Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) WA area sales manager Darren Desouza says Toyota forklifts are built using the same advanced manufacturing technologies as Toyota’s automotive products.
“The Toyota Production System is highly refined and employed internationally to ensure every piece of our equipment is built to exacting standards, thus resulting in exceptional quality, durability and reliability,” he says.
In 2019, Choice Chips’ Xydas decided to buy a new 8 Series battery electric 1.8-tonne 8FBR18 stand up reach forklift, which he describes as: “The best machine we’ve got here because it can take any pallet we have. It’s unbelievably good.”
So impressed is he with his Toyota reach truck’s performance, Xydas recently decided to go ‘fullcircle’ and purchase another Toyota forklift: the new 2.5-tonne 32-8FG25 counterbalance, which ‘book-ends’ his first Toyota forklift bought at the business’ inception.
Xydas says he was impressed with Toyota’s safety systems, which were explained to him on-site.
“Yes, they came out and showed me the safety features like the one that helps minimise the likelihood of machines tipping over, which is of course very important to me and our other drivers.”
TMHA’s Darren Desouza says the safety feature Xydas referred to is Toyota’s exclusive System Of Active Stability (SAS).
“Our Automatic safety system is an indispensable feature for our forklifts and a huge part of the Toyota Advantage,” Desouza says.
“It is similar in concept to vehicular anti-lock braking systems and vehicle stability control systems in that it contributes to accidentprevention by detecting motion during operation.
“The SAS computer constantly analyses the potential for a tip-over. If the SAS computer finds tip-over potential, it sends a signal to the Toyota forklift actuators, which then minimise [it].”
