Case Studies
From multi-directional forklifts to special-purpose vehicles: In the references you can find out how our vehicles are used. Pick out your industry and your desired solution. Our customers will then tell you how they benefit from our vehicles. We would also be happy to solve your handling task!
AGC Seapane
At AGC Seapane in Zeebrugge, Belgium, two HUBTEX multidirectional sideloaders move empty and loaded glass racks every day between the warehouse, the loading bay, and external storage areas, as well as for truck loading. One HUBTEX MQ 30 has been in operation for almost 15 years. Since early 2024, the fleet has been expanded with a PHOENIX MQ 30 featuring 3-ton capacity and multidirectional steering. After trialing a competitor truck and then returning to the proven technology, this combination delivers high availability, short transit times, and consistently stable operations.
Hardware and DIY distributor LAMIPLAST
In the Hardware & DIY sector, where space utilization is crucial, Lamiplast needed to optimize its intralogistics to store materials up to 6 meters long and operate safely in narrow aisles. High daily throughput required a multidirectional electric sideloader offering greater maneuverability, fewer maneuvers, and precise handling of a wide variety of loads. With the HUBTEX PHOENIX MQ, Lamiplast makes better use of every square meter of warehouse space while working more efficiently and comfortably.
Tigris Building Solutions
Tigris Building Solutions in Plombières, Belgium, handles pallets as well as long loads such as timber profiles and sheet material every day in tight aisles, indoors and outdoors. To cover truck loading, in house transport, and machine feeding flexibly and efficiently without additional vehicles, the company relies on two HUBTEX FLUX 30 units and one HUBTEX MQ 45. The long standing partnership with HUBTEX and the planned expansion of the fleet underscore the value these solutions deliver in day to day operations.
Timber Building Supplies
Timber and Building Supplies Holland N.V. (TABS) has opened a new distribution centre in Tilburg to supply customers in the southern Netherlands more quickly and reliably. Ahead of the investment, TABS trialled the PHOENIX range in real-world operations for a month and chose twelve electric HUBTEX PHOENIX MQ35 trucks. The multi-directional sideloaders ensure a continuous and safe flow of materials.
STIHL Tirol
STIHL Tirol, a leading manufacturer of forestry and gardening equipment based in Langkampfen, which also produces chainsaws, was faced with the challenge of optimizing the internal transport of machine parts and system components. The FLUX 70 multidirectional counterbalance trucks present themselves as an outstanding solution for the requirements of the Austrian production site of the STIHL Group in the area of transporting machine parts and storing and retrieving the heavy-duty racking system.
Volkswagen plant Wolfsburg
A new multidirectional tool changer from the special purpose vehicles manufacturer HUBTEX was especially designed for the application at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg Germany for transporting and changing injection moulding tools.
Slide manufacturer: Josef Wiegand
The Josef Wiegand company, based in Rasdorf, a town in the German state of Hesse, is a special company: it is one of the few companies in the world that manufactures slides, summer toboggan runs and amusement park equipment. For their production, it is not uncommon to have to transport steel and stainless steel tube material up to 470 in long. This is difficult for a conventional counterbalanced forklift truck to handle. The solution: the 2in1 FluX 30 forklift, which can be used flexibly as a conventional forklift or side loader.
RATHEAU
The Ratheau Group, a family business steeped in tradition, has equipped its new site in Conflans-Sainte Honorine, near Paris, with multidirectional forklifts from its long-standing partner HUBTEX. These trucks enable loads of timber up to 13 metres long to be transported and stored reliably and efficiently in narrow aisles. Thanks to the high load capacity and manoeuvrability of the HUBTEX trucks, Ratheau is able to optimize the space available and thus considerably improve its storage logistics.
Door manufacturer RWD Schlatter AG
RWD Schlatter AG has significantly simplified the storage and picking processes for doors, door frames and raw materials. An individually configured HUBTEX MK15 electric multidirectional order picking truck drives semi-automatically to the individual rack compartments.
Michael Worahnik GmbH
Michael Worahnik GmbH has been one of the leading suppliers of tinsmith products in Austria for 50 years. To achieve this, the company has had to consistently ensure a high level of quality and good customer service. The company operates its headquarters in Köttlach with a 5000m2 warehouse. Around 8,000 different items are stored here on Euro pallets as well as special pallets for gutters and drainpipes up to 6 meters in length.
Binder
The Austrian company Binder+Co AG uses a Hubtex SFX electric platform truck with a payload of 40 t and multidirectional steering for the in-house transport of raw materials and semi-finished and finished bulk material processing systems. Bulk material processing systems weighing up to 40 tonnes can now be transported across the entire company premises and between the various halls and production stages without the need for costly hired mobile cranes.
Building materials manufacturer HIANSA sandwich panels
HIANSA has experienced numerous benefits through the acquisition of our HUBTEX multi-directional forklifts. Thanks to the environmentally friendly and reliable electric solution, HIANSA has been able to maintain the demanding performance without generating pollutant exhaust emissions.