20.01.2009

7,000th UK Merlo

Merlo UK, has delivered its 7,000th telehandler to GT Lifting solutions of Lancing West Sussex, 15 years after it was set up to import the bright green Italian built machines.

The 7,000th unit was a 25 metre Roto 40.25 MCSS – the eighteenth Roto to be purchased by GT and was supplied by East London Merlo dealer CBL.

GT’s managing director, Graham Trundell, said: “This brings us up to eight 25 metre Rotos and demand is continuing in comparison to the general house building market. The Roto offers a spectacular performance and can often replace several machines on-site.”
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Graham Trundell of GT Lifting with the 7,000th Merlo delivered into the UK

Trundell was one of the early converts to the Roto concept, buying his first unit in 1997, when he was special projects manager for Gamble Jarvis. GT Lifting Solutions now has several heavy-lift Merlo six and 10 tonne capacity telehandlers as well as the Roto fleet of 16, 21 and 25 metre machines.

Merlo UK says that the specialised telehandler market remains strong, and believes that Italian based Merlo is well placed in the current economic conditions. With no borrowings, a very high percentage of its products manufactured ‘in-house’ and an unusually high level of mechanisation,