Swedish forwarder market stays strong in 2012 – defies manufacturers’ predictions
Finnish pdf version included! Elmia ’s summary of the 2012 forwarder statistics for the Swedish market shows 335 machines were registered. This is fewer than in the record year of 2011 but in no way a poor result. Machinery manufacturers had believed the forwarder market was strong until the summer but then weakened. In fact, the registration data reveal the opposite was true. What is most interesting, says Torbjörn Johnsen, business unit manager at Elmia, is that there was no visible sales decline at the end of the year. Instead, the market