Business Profile

Hiab is the leading provider of on-road load handling equipment and services. We offer products, services and spare parts that are used in on-road transport and delivery.

With Hiab’s products, the customer can move, hoist, load and unload products, equipment and materials. Our product range includes HIAB loader cranes, JONSERED forestry and recycling cranes, LOGLIFT forestry cranes, MOFFETT truck-mounted forklifts, MULTILIFT demountables, as well as DEL, WALTCO and ZEPRO tail lifts.

Hiab's customers range from large national or regional companies to local and relatively small enterprises. Customers' fields of businesses include transportation companies, municipalities and governments, fleet operators, single truck owners, rental companies and truck manufacturers. Hiab's business is characterised by a high number of individual, small orders.

Hiab’s products and services enable customers to optimise their businesses, while running efficient and profitable operations. A broad product offering, leading technology and solid global know-how make Hiab solutions the most reliable and efficient on the market.

One of the cornerstones in Hiab’s strategy is its route to the market: the channels and processes used to sell products and services to customers. With operations and a sales and service network in more than 100 countries, we aim to set the industry benchmark for customer satisfaction, by providing products and services that meet customer needs globally. We are represented in all the main markets within Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), North and South America, as well as in the Asian and Pacific region.

Hiab’s organisation is divided into three main units: Sales and Markets, Products and Supply, supported by common central functions, such as Finance, Information Management, Legal, Human Resources and Communications. We have a network of research and development and assembly units located in China, Finland, Ireland, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Hiab has approximately 2,600 employees in 31 countries. The largest employers by country are Sweden, the United States, Poland, Ireland, Finland, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

In 2014, Hiab’s sales totalled EUR 840 million (2013: EUR 841 million).

Hiab is part of Cargotec Corporation. Cargotec’s class B shares are quoted on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd under symbol CGCBV.