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Hyster enhances ReachStacker for increasing container volumes

"The reachstacker market is continuing to grow," says Jan Willem van den Brand, Product Strategy Manager Big Trucks. "Hyster alone produced more reachstackers than ever last year, for operations all over the world."

The Hyster ReachStacker is well known for its class leading lift speeds, combined motions of lift and boom extension while driving and exceptional reliability, particularly in 24/7 operations. The incredible performance not only helps terminals move containers quickly, the company claims that it is helping increase the financial margins on container handling.

The busy factory in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has again recently enhanced the Hyster ReachStacker design to help further reduce operational costs for ports and terminals.

“More than 25% fuel savings, which could be more than 4 litres per hour, can be achieved with the new Hyster ReachStacker when compared to our Stage IIIA 2010 trucks and many of our competitor models,” confirms Jan Willem. “Our goal was to continue our profitable low emissions strategy reducing the total cost of operations and ownership while meeting the new standards for a cleaner environment.”

Featuring the new Cummins QSL9 engine and other technologies to meet the Stage IV / Tier 4 final (T4f) emissions legislation, the new Hyster ReachStacker is proven to offer significant fuel savings in real life applications.

Hyster has used heavy EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) combined with SCR (selective catalytic reduction) and a DOC diesel oxidation catalyst to achieve Stage IV / T4f compliance. This has resulted in approximately 96% less particles (soot) and 94% less NOx (nitrogen oxides) compared to Stage IIIA / T3 equivalents before 2005.

EGR reduces NOx formation during combustion, followed by SCR which removes the remaining NOx from the exhaust stream. This combination requires low DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) usage, with no risk of crystallisation. For the PM (particulate matter) reduction, high pressure fuel injection reduces PM formation at source and the diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) removes the rest from the exhaust stream.

"There is no diesel particulate filter, no additional operator intervention or ash cleaning service required," says Jan Willem.

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