Who We Are

CESAB is an acronym for "Carrellificio Emiliano S.p.A. Bologna", which actually means "Emilian forklift company in Bologna". [Emilia Romagna is an Italian region, whose capital city is Bologna]

In 1953 Mario Marabini secured the first authorised dealer agreement with CESAB of Bologna. Today brothers Nerio and Maurizio Marabini still manage the CESAB dealership and have seen the company grow strongly over the last 60 years. With more than 40 employees based at the 3000 square metre Orio al Serio, Bergamo site, Marabini are now certified I SO 9001 and operate with a loyal customer base.

CESAB Material Handling UK* was formed in 1992 and is now part of CESAB Material Handling Europe organisation. With its head office in Wellingborough and an extensive dealer network, CESAB Material Handling UK distributes its expanding product range to customers within the UK. This helps customers to have the best of both worlds: high quality products backed by strong local support and rapid response times. 

*Trading name of CESAB UK Ltd 

Pininfarina S.p.A. is a leading Italian design house based in Cambiano, Italy. Founded in 1930 by automobile designer and builder Battista "Pinin" Farina, Pininfarina has been employed by a wide variety of high-end automobile manufacturers. It also has designed trams in France and Greece, high-speed trains in Holland, and trolleys in the USA and since the 1980s Pininfarina has been consulted on industrial design projects with clients including CESAB for the Blitz range of forklifts.

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Toyota Industries Corporation was founded in 1926 by Sakichi Toyoda to manufacture and sell the automatic looms which he had invented and perfected. Since that time Toyota Industries has promoted diversification and expanded the scope of its business domains to include textile machinery, automobiles, materials handling equipment, electronics, and logistics solutions.

The iF product design award is one of the world’s most important product design awards. Award winning entries are allowed to carry the iF logo, a label that signifies outstanding product design.

Since the acquisition LTE has invested heavily in new technologies and processes. The investment has included an internal material flow redesign to create a new more efficient layout and support the implementation of Just In Time and Kanban techniques. It has also enabled a new oxi-cut material warehouse to feed the four robot welding lines and a new assembly line able to reach a production capacity in excess of 15,000 masts per year in one shift.

The CESAB M300 range has been built to deal with the rigours and knocks of everyday working life. Strong, tough and reliable with capacities from 1.5 to 3.5 tonnes. Every CESAB M300 has been manufactured using TPS (Toyota Production System) widely acknowledged as one of the most successful manufacturing systems in the world.

Form follows function - the CESAB R100 is a practical easy to operate truck which is designed to deliver high manoeuvrability, reliability and safety to reach truck operations through a series of innovative and ergonomic features. Three practical, easy to operate models include offering load capability of up to 1600 kg and lift heights of up to 8500 mm.

The P113 is the economic solution for pallet handling in lorries, on production lines, in storage facilities, and in retail outlets. The perfect replacement for a hand pallet truck: compact and easy to use!

Handling pallets, order picking, adjustable working table, the compact CESAB S110 can master three jobs! The centred mono mast offers perfect visibility under all circumstances.

High residual capacity, a new generation mast with enhanced mast stability, better visibility and a lower collapsed mast height make the improved CESAB R300 reach truck range a powerful asset in high intensity operations, particularly where heavier loads are lifted at height.

After a long and successful career, CESAB Europe announces that the “Compasso d’Oro” rewarded and Pininfarina designed hydrostatic Drago Series was replaced by the hydrostatic version of the well-known and proven M300, the CESAB M300H. Hydrostatic trucks are not new for Cesab as their history goes back to the early 90’s when the first version of the Drago model was introduced. Production started in July 2018 in the Ancenis (France) factory and the M300H model is available in capacities from 1500 to 3500 kg both in Diesel and LPG.

From retail to wholesale, manufacturing to distribution, the CESAB P200 and S200 ranges offer a flexible solution for all operations managed by people on foot.

Both ranges now offer the option of reduced speed when forks are lowered and a low noise hydraulic option, ideal for retail environments, as well as optional speed reduction for travelling around corners.

CESAB Material Handling Europe reveals that starting April 2020, the company will offer fully integrated Lithium-ion batteries across their Warehouse range. The batteries are assembled in-house following the high quality TPS manufacturing standards.

CESAB offers Li-ion solution throughout its extensive warehouse range. Li-ion batteries for the 48 Volt Counterbalanced Lift trucks will follow soon.

As the first low lifting truck to be built around CESAB’s in-house modular Li-ion battery system, the CESAB P216i brings a completely new standard of design to the powered pallet truck market.

CESAB's engineering teams have devised a series of solutions across the CESAB M300 Stage V range that will not only meet Euro V requirements but also deliver even greater business efficiencies, optimise productivity and improve reliability.