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Telehandlers are very popular equipment worldwide and are extensively used globally. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Souma Ray, Director, Haulotte India,</span> explains the market dynamics globally and in India. <p></p><p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What is the current market scenario of telehandlers in India? </span><br />The telehandler market in India is growing steadily. Today, India is the third-biggest market for telehandlers in Asia-Pacific after Australia and the Middle East û 13 per cent of the APAC market as of March 2019. On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis over March 2018, the market in India has grown by 69 per cent. The growth of the Indian market is specifically being propelled in the 3 ton 7 m and 11 m range of telehandlers, which are being locally manufactured in India by JCB. Other manufactures like us who offer machines manufactured in Europe, the volume of imported machines remains to be limited and are for capacities of 4T and above. </p><p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Which are the major segments that drive demand for telehandlers?</span><br />Telehandlers are used across segments but the demand is more in the construction and infrastructure projects. Telehandlers being multifarious in application and having the capacity of featuring several attachments like bucket, winch, crane jib/hook, tyre handler and man basket, finds takers in manufacturing, mineral processing, and mining industries.</p><p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What are the major advantages of telehandlers? </span> <br /> As mentioned before, telehandlers are multifarious equipment and can be used for different applications as you can use different attachments to meet a certain application. This allows the same machine to do various jobs.</p><p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What features do customers look for the most in telehandlers? </span><br />Mostly customers look for a standard telehandler which comes with forks which are used for moving or shifting mostly palletised load. However, depending upon the nature of the load or a particular type of application, the customers may take additional optional attachments like bucket (for loose load, sand, gravel, stone chips, loose metals etc), tyre handler (for carrying tyres of construction equipment especially during changing of such tyres in these equipment), hook jib and winch for lifting and marching with unitised load and man basket for lifting people. </p><p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">How far rentals support the growth of telehandler market?</span><br />The requirement of telehandlers on rent is increasing. However, there are only a few rental companies who offer telehandlers. With the evident increase in awareness and popularity of telehandlers, I am sure many rental companies would start investing in adding telehandlers to their fleet.</p><p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What are the emerging technology trends in telehandlers focusing on safety, productivity and emission? </span><br />Like for all other equipment, the evolution of technology is a continuous process. Similarly, the technology used in telehandlers is also getting upgraded from time to time, propelled by the R&amp;D efforts by different manufacturers to enhance the safety and productivity of the machines. The emission norms are being adhered to by the requirements of different markets across the worldg, ground support equipment etc.</p><p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What are the market opportunities for telehandlers?</span><br />Telehandlers are very popular equipment worldwide and are extensively used globally. In 2018, 66,408 new units of telehandlers were sold worldwide and for 2019 the numbers are expected to be around 73,000. Although the demands vary from market to market based on maturity, the opportunities are quite encouraging even in developing markets where awareness is slowly increasing.</p><p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What is your outlook on the future of telehandlers in India?</span><br />The telehandler market in India is steadily expanding. As awareness increases and the industry and market mature further, the demand for telehandlers of various capacities is set to rise up in the near future. </p><p></p>