Palfinger Group

Established in 1932, the company has for many years been among the leading international manufacturers of hydraulic lifting systems in the line of commercial vehicles and in the maritim field. As a multinational company group with its headquarters in Salzburg, Austria, PALFINGER has manufacturing and assembly sites in Europe, in North and South America and Asia as well as over 5,000 sales and service centres located in over 130 countries across five continents. With its 8,995 employees, PALFINGER has generated total sales of approx. EUR 1,229.9 million in 2015. Innovation and further internationalisation of products, processes and services form, in addition to greater flexibility, the strategic pillars of the corporate strategy. Greater flexibility enables PALFINGER to come up to market development of any kind by fast adaption of resources and capacities and thus assures the company to be successful even in times of high volatility. In line with this strategy, PALFINGER today stands for innovative lifting solutions at the interfaces of the transport chain. The company’s main guiding principle is to make customers throughout the world more successful with our market know-how, technological skills and the commitment of our staff. PALFINGER is technology leader and number one worldwide for loader cranes, EPSILON timber and recycling cranes, hooklifts and cranes in the offshore wind energy industry. Furthermore the company is one of the leading manufacturers of marine and offshore cranes as well as launch and recovery systems, boats and winches. With railway applications and bridge inspection units PALFINGER is European technology and market leader in this high-tech sector. Products such as truck mounted forklifts (worldwide number two), tail lifts, access platforms, truck bodies and pick-up tail lifts complete the product portfolio. Around 59 percent of the PALFINGER Group is owned by the PALFINGER family, 10 per cent is owned by SANY Germany GmbH and around 30 percent is in diversified holdings. 1 percent of shares are owned by PALFINGER AG. Since June 1999 PALFINGER has been listed on the official market of the Vienna Stock Exchange. Since mid-June 2000 the shares of PALFINGER AG have also been traded on the OTC market of the Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt stock exchanges.

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