With immediate effect, the Hamburg based lift truck manufacturer STILL and the Finnish company KONEKESKO OY are expanding their sales activities to the Baltic states.
KONEKESKO is a financially powerful importer of investment and material handling goods focussing on machinery for construction, farming and municipal vehicles. Both companies have already been cooperating in Finland since early 2010.

“We are expecting substantial growth for lift trucks and warehouse equipment and we want to position ourselves on the market in due time for this so that we can offer our customers complete intralogistics solutions.”, says Frank Schliesser, director of dealer organisation at STILL.
“Our respective corporate philosophies match very well. Both partners attach great importance to quality products and fast on-site service.”

Aatos Kivelä, President of KONEKESKO underlines: “The extension of our joint activities unites the strengths of both companies. We have been knowing the Baltic market for years and STILL supplies our customers with the latest technologies. Environmental aspects play a major role in this, because this is an area we want to take the lead in. STILL’s energy saving program Blue-Q is an energy efficient alternative matching these requirements and saves up to 20% of the total energy consumed by an electric lift truck. Apart from this, STILL is also the technology-leader in the development of hybrid technology for counter balance trucks.”

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STILL is the leading supplier for the intelligent management of intralogistics, i.e. the whole internal flow of material and information. Besides the broad range of different trucks, the company develops innovative services and solutions for the flow of material. This makes up a broad portfolio of products and services offered, globally providing maximum efficiency. The fast service and the tight service network guarantee high profitability and safety for production processes. Today in Europe alone there are more than 6,000 qualified members of the STILL staff involved in meeting the individual demands of each customer. www.still.de

KONEKESKO is a service company specialised on import and sale of construction machinery, lorries, busses and leisure vehicles. KONEKESKO belongs to the KESKO group, the leading supplier of trade services. The core competence is to provide services in procurement, logistics and support for the partner companies as well as development and administration of trade concepts and trademarks. KONEKESKO operates in Finland, the Baltic states and in Russia. Beside very quality oriented customers, KONEKESKO's most important customer groups include construction, materials handling, transportation and service sector companies beside towns and municipalities. Construction and agricultural machinery as well as MAN trucks and buses are marketed through KONEKESKO's own dealer organisation.