NISSAN Lifts Dismantled Machines

About Nissan

Nissan manufactured forklifts for more than six decades, originally under the Datsun name and later as the Nissan Forklift by UniCarriers brand, which eventually became UniCarriers Forklift, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Logisnext. It all started back in 1957, when the company produced its first forklift in a factory in the Totsuka area of Yokohama in the Kanagawa prefecture in Japan.

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Nissan MCP1F2A25LV Cushion Tire Forklift

Reaching Out To The World

Nissan Forklift began to export equipment to the United States in 1965 and to Europe in 1967. It consolidated its manufacturing, sales, and research and development in Murayama, Yamagata prefecture in 1975. Then in 1988, the company started manufacturing forklifts in the U.S. when it acquired shares in Barrett Industrial Trucks, and then in Pamplona, Spain, in 1989.

Nissan Forklift founded a North American corporation in 1993 to handle manufacturing and sales activities there. In 2000, the company allied with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and in 2002 it founded a Chinese branch in Shanghai. An acquisition of the Swedish manufacturer Atlet AB followed in 2007.

In 2008, Nissan Forklift hinted at the future by showing a lithium-ion battery forklift concept, the Agres Li, at the Logis-Tech material handling and logistics trade show in Tokyo. Four years later, the company became a subsidiary of UniCarriers. Its global headquarters is now in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture in Japan, with its North American operations centered in Marengo, Illinois.

Nissan Lift Equipment

Nissan made pneumatic tire and cushion tire forklifts with lift capacities ranging from 3,000 to 22,000 pounds (1,400 to 10,000 kilograms). It also manufactured stand up and reach trucks, single and double reach trucks, straddle non-reach trucks, order pickers, tow tractors, pallet jacks, walkie counterbalanced stackers, pallet stackers, tuggers, and very narrow aisle (VNA) reach trucks, among other things.

Power options for Nissan lifts and warehouse equipment have included LPG, gasoline, diesel, and electric. Nissan’s electric forklifts come in three-wheeled and four-wheeled versions.

Find The Right Nissan

Some of the more popular Nissan models on the market are the MCP1F2A, MCT1B2L, and MCU1F2A cushion tire forklifts, as well as MP1F2A and MP1F1A pneumatic tire forklifts. Prices on the used market range from $2,500 to $40,000 or so, with models from the early 1980s and newer.