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Toyota Material Handling Europe and Toyota Motor Europe are working together to deliver a wide range of sustainable solutions for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Smart electric forklifts will support logistics and operations for cleaner Games with lower emissions
Toyota Material Handling Europe will be part of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the company has announced.
As part of Toyota’s worldwide Olympic partnership, Toyota Material Handling Europe will supply material handling equipment to power smart and sustainable operations in Paris.
The partnership will make full use of Toyota Material Handling Europe’s existing range – including counterbalanced trucks, powered pallet trucks and electric forklifts using lithium-ion technology. The company also plans to introduce brand-new advanced concepts in goods transport, contributing to the Olympic mission to reduce carbon emissions.
Toyota Material Handling Europe’s parent company, Toyota Industries Corporation, is part of the Toyota Group. Toyota has been a member of The Olympic Partner (TOP) programme since 2015, and Toyota Motor Corporation has since provided the Games with mobility solutions and services. At the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games it will go a step further: Toyota Motor Europe and Toyota Material Handling Europe will provide solutions for the safe, sustainable and intelligent movement of goods and people under the Beyond Zero concept.
“Although we are in different businesses within the Toyota Group, it made sense to work together to bring the most powerful and complete solutions possible to Paris,” said Ernesto Domínguez, President and CEO of Toyota Material Handling Europe. “We share the innovative spirit of our founder, a set of values and a commitment to creating positive transport experiences – and we also share a sense of honour and privilege to contribute to the inspiring events in Paris 2024.
“At the same time, we are contributing to one of society’s most pressing challenges: achieving climate-neutral mobility that meets all our needs, for both people and goods. In fruitful collaboration we can achieve much more than by working alone.”
Progress towards 2024 has already begun
Toyota Motor Europe and Toyota Material Handling Europe have already taken part in a joint event: Beyond Zero City, an exhibition at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm, of which Toyota is the main sponsor. Zero City shows what urban spaces will look like without fossil-fuelled cars, with sustainable and practical public transport, and where digitalisation and electrification make mobility safer, cleaner and more empowering. As well as showing urban transformation, it explores Toyota’s transformation from a vehicle manufacturer into a modern mobility company. Toyota technologies on display include autonomous electric vehicles, AI-assisted pallet drones and human support robots.
Tom Schalenbourg, Director of Sustainability at Toyota Material Handling Europe, added: “In 2021 we joined the UN Race to Zero, committing to set science-based targets to align our emissions with the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement. By 2031 we aim to switch all our buildings and van and car fleets to 100% renewable energy, and to reduce emissions across our entire value chain by 55% in line with the EU Fit for 55 package.”
“Paris 2024 has also joined the UN Race to Zero and aims to cut emissions by 50% compared with previous Games. If we can support them in achieving this goal, it will benefit us both.”
