It was two celebrations at once for the STILL Team at the IFOY awards ceremony for the best industrial trucks and solutions of the year in the BMW Welt in Munich Tuesday evening. The Jury selected the STILL RX 60-80 and STILL’s system solution for an automated raw materials warehouse to receive the International Forklift Truck of the Year (IFOY) Award.

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The coveted distinction, now awarded for the third time, is under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and is promoted by the Conveyor Technology and Intralogistics Systems trade association in the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) as sponsor together with the CeMAT and other partners. The winners are chosen by an independent Jury consisting of twenty internationally highly respected specialist journalists in Europe’s leading logistics media.

The STILL electric truck RX 60-80 was the winner in the category “Counterbalanced trucks over 3,5 t“ which is, according to the laudator Dorothee Bär, logistics coordinator of the Federal Government and Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport, the most important category in this competition. For this the international specialist Jury of the IFOY Awards tested the participating trucks for one week in February on the site of the official logistics partner Hellmann Worldwide Logistics in Osnabrück. As well as their abilities in practical use – mainly with regard to economy, energy efficiency, sustainability, safety, ergonomics and design – the trucks’ innovative value was also assessed. The RX 60-80 convinced the testers firstly by its handling, which was unusually easy for an 8-tonner, thus providing employees with fundamental support in their daily work. This is made possible by the truck’s compact construction, ergonomic operating concept and good freedom of vision. Moreover, the Jury said that the RX 60-80 represents an innovation in its performance class because in this case solutions for E-trucks have been thought through systematically. These include an effective energy optimisation system and a simplified, time-saving battery change that eliminates the use of underslung cranes. The testers’ conclusion: “The STILL RX 60-80 8-tonner is powerful and robust, but drives like a 4- to 5-tonner. With this power pack, STILL proves that driving electrically in the heavy segment is now a highly logical and recommendable alternative.” Laudator Bär affirms: “The winner truck convinces by its power, economy, ergonomics and especially by its high degree of innovation.”

STILL received the second IFOY award in the “Intralogistics Solutions” category, in which the Jury assesses the innovation, customer benefit, sustainability and marketability of integrated complete intralogistics solutions. The winner was the system solution for an automated raw materials warehouse for the plastic film manufacturer Kuraray Trosifol, designed by STILL and implemented in Troisdorf in only nine weeks. The warehouse provides a 24-hour supply for the company’s production unit and comprises 3,300 storage bays for pallets with big bags. It contains seven STILL PalletShuttles, three automated FM-X reach trucks, two RX 60 electric trucks, a materials flow computer and a high-level warehouse control computer. It involves, for the first time, communication between the semi-automatic PalletShuttles and the automated FM-X reach trucks to bring the raw materials to the correct production supply station at the optimum time. The solution considerably increases the efficiency of the warehouse processes, with optimum utilisation of the existing storage space. The laudator Kai Hasenpusch, Managing Director of Hellmann Worldwide Logistics in Germany, said: “This project set a benchmark in terms of warehouse design for the future.”

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