Crown Equipment Corp., New Bremen, Ohio, opened a 165,500-square-foot forklift engine facility in Troy, Ohio, designed to produce 2.4L LPG engines used in its Crown C-5 Series industrial forklifts. Crown purchased this facility in 2012, and recently earned the International Organization for Standardization ISO 9001:2008 certification.
Crown Equipment worked closely with John Deere Power Systems, Waterloo, Iowa, to jointly develop an engine built specifically for forklifts operating in the toughest environments. Initially, John Deere Power Systems supplied the engines and supported Crown throughout the transition of the engine production to the new facility. Moving forward, Crown’s completed engines will be transported to its Greencastle, Ind., plant to be placed inside Crown C-5 Series forklifts for delivery to customers.