Manufacturing Marvels: Crown Integrated Manufacturing

At Crowns 325000 square foot Greencastle Indiana facility the company manufactures several models of its forklift trucks. More than four hundred employees work as a team using a fully automated material handling system to implement lean manufacturing processes. Crowns integrated manufacturing approach also maintains on-site engineering safety and quality support so that each vehicle that displays the Crown name lives up to the Crown reputation. If it says Crown on the outside its a Crown on the inside. Crown designs and manufactures most of its lift truck components. State of the art equipment is used to build its vehicles including ten CNC tools and five CNC press brakes that can create more than four hundred different components. Crown has sixteen manufacturing plants in eleven different locations over four continents and ranks as one of the largest lift truck manufacturers in the world. Crown has earned more than eighty design awards and repeatedly receives recognition for its commitment to the environment and sustainability. For more information visit ,

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