With increased demand from manufacturers, warehouse operators and supermarket chains for quieter materials handling equipment, Hiab Moffett enlisted Bosch Rexroth to assist in the creation of the world's quietest Truck Mounted Forklift. In order to ensure the new machine's operation could be as silent as possible a key area of focus was the gear pump. With Bosch Rexroth already supplying hydrostatic drives and gear pumps across the vast majority of Hiab Moffett's Truck Mounted Forklifts, Kevin Tumbull, engineering director, approached Craig Grant, mobile applications manager at Bosch Rexroth, to see if the company could provide a solution.
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