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SWEDEN
RTs: key product line for distributor N.C. Nielsen
Per Löthner told us more about the markets Nielsen serves “We supply Terberg vehicles in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland. I am also the main contact person with the Terberg factory in Benschop. The RT tractors are very popular here, not just in ports but also industry, warehouses and distribution centres. That is because their four-wheel drive enables them to operate in heavy snow.
Some of our customers have really interesting applications. For example, CS TruckService, which provides handling services at the Outokumpu steel mill in Avesta, Sweden, fitted additional shields to their RT, and an emergency door. That unit handles slag pots, if the hot slag is accidentally dumped onto a wet area you get a steam explosion and slag flies around, so the tractor needed special features to protect against that. The port of Gothenburg in Sweden uses RT403s with the side-shifting cabin to handle extra large SECU boxes. One of our customers handling paper products fitted their units with automatic disconnection of the air and electrical connections. Terberg is very successful in this market because of the high quality products that they deliver. We see a real demand for an electric RT as some ports strive to become emission free, so we are looking forward to the electric version of the RT that Terberg is currently developing.
THE NETHERLANDS
The Terberg Distribution Tractor was developed for busy distribution centres where semi-trailers are frequently coupled and uncoupled, and sites with both pedestrians and vehicles. Mainfreight is a worldwide logistics services provider. They recently started using two DTs at their site at ‘s-Heerenberg in the Netherlands, to improve the work environment of their drivers.
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