The company was founded more than eighty years ago by Lester M. Sears with his vision of adapting agricultural tractors to industrial applications. Lester's first forklift featured innovations that became standard on forklifts. In 1965, Towmotor became a subsidiary of the Caterpillar Tractor Company of Peoria and moved production to a factory in Mentor. The Cat® Lift Trucks brand was created. In 1983, Caterpillar signed a contract with Daewoo Heavy Industry to manufacture forklifts in South Korea and announced the closure of its Mentor plant (officially closed in 1985). In 1992, together with Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, he formed a joint venture: Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA) to manufacture and market trucks in the United States. In the same year, the Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift Europe (MCFE) BV joint venture was formed, combining the technological, marketing and financial strengths of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Caterpillar Inc. Today, Cat ® Lift Trucks has factories in Japan, the USA and the Netherlands. In 1998, the company obtained the ISO 9001 certificate and in 2002 the ISO 14001 certificate. The handling technology is offered in Europe, Africa and the Middle East through an independent network of dealers.
Cat Lift Truck forklift types
DP15-35(C)N, DP40-55(C)NB, DP70N1, DP100-160N, GP15-35(C)N, GP40-55(C)N, GP20-33NY, GP35-70K, EP10-15 KRT PAC, EP14-20A(C)NT, EP16-20A(C)N, EP25-35(C)N, EP40-50(C)(S)2