On January 25th, 2016, Anhui Heli Co. Ltd. (HELI) and Jungheinrich AG formally signed a joint venture contract in Shanghai, China. The joint venture, named Jungheinrich HELI Industrial Truck Rental (China) Co.Ltd, is committed to carrying out a full range of electric and internal combustion industrial vehicle rental business in China.

Anhui HELI Co. Ltd. (HELI) was founded in 1958. It has been ranked at the top of forklift truck industry for 25 successive years in China, since 1991. HELI has the most integrated industrial vehicle industry chain and the biggest R&D, manufacture and export base of industrial vehicles with largest scale and a vast sales network in China for providing customers with comprehensive, fast and efficient integrated services. 

Jungheinrich, AG was established in 1953. The headquarters is located in Hamburg, Germany. Jungheinrich is one of the world's leading industrial vehicles, warehousing technology and solution suppliers of logistics system and has vast experience in operation and management in the field of the global industrial vehicle rental business. 

HELI and Jungheinrich will fully display respective superiority of their brands, products and network and service, complementary advantages and resource sharing in order to provide the full range of handling equipment and logistics solutions for the Chinese rental service market and customers. Customers can choose different products from simple hand pallet trucks to heavy-duty IC engine-powered counterbalanced trucks. Rental periods offered are flexible, ranging from one day to 60 months. Rental scale can be from one to a team. 

"The joint venture will provide variety of rental products for the Chinese market and customers, including more extensive product portfolio (HELI + Jungheinrich),a full range of HELI internal combustion forklifts and Jungheinrich electric forklifts" says Zhang De Jin, Chairman of Anhui Heli Co. Ltd. (HELI). 

"HELI has a pragmatic management, the sustained success of the enterprises. The joint venture will have very good integration. We will strive to create the largest materials handling equipment rental company in the Chinese market," says Hans-Georg Frey, Chairman of the Board of Management of Jungheinrich. 

 A new hope comes after the new year.The cooperation between HELI and Jungheinrich is committed to providing better services for the Chinese market and customers and adapting to the new situation of economic globalization,but also will become a model of friendly and successful cooperation between China and Germany.