Making major investments

The company is relocating its European headquarters from Munich to a nearby location in Feldkirchen, where the company has acquired a developed commercial site. Since last year, it has expanded its presence in Europe, opening service and distribution centres in Madrid, Vienna and Milan. 

Crown has manufactured its products in Roding, Bavaria since 1986. What originally began as a production site for hand pallet trucks and components now consolidates Crown’s entire European forklift production for the EMEA region and other world markets. For the expansion of its Roding facility, it acquired a site on a new industrial and commercial estate, where it is constructing a production hall and a three-storey office building. The existing premises will also continue operations. 

A new Parts and Service Centre in Pliening, near Munich, rounds off the trio. With this new logistics centre, Crown is tripling its available space. Pliening now handles spare parts supplies for the EMEA region. From here, the company makes overnight deliveries within its European core markets direct to the service engineers’ vehicles or to final customers.