Irish firm lifts export award
12 December 2012Specialist materials handling manufacturer Combilift has won an award for exports to Germany.
It is the third award for Combilift this year following success in the Fork Lift Truck Association awards for its RT and CB fork lift models.
Combilift was named best exporter to Germany in the Irish Exporter to Germany Awards, organised by Enterprise Ireland and the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce. The awards marked the 50th anniversary of the opening of Ireland's first trade office in Frankfurt in 1962.
Combilift managing director Martin McVicar accepted the trophy from Minister for Education and Skills Ruairi Quinn in Dublin.
Combilift entered the German market in 1999, a year after the company was established, and has notched up sales there of more than of €100m with blue chip customers such as Liebherr, Thyssen Krupp, Weber Haus, Veka, Schüco and Hagebau.
