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FEM[1] is a European not-for-profit association representing manufacturers of materials handling, lifting and storage equipment. Founded in 1953, FEM counts 13 national member committees from the European Union, Switzerland and Turkey, as well as 2 associate members and one individual member. FEM thus voices the interests of some 1,000 companies employing about 160,000 people and representing an annual turnover in excess of € 30 billion. FEM represents one of the largest industrial sectors of the European mechanical engineering industry.

The European materials handling industry

Materials handling, lifting and storage equipment ensures the flow of goods in manufacturing processes. This equipment is found in every factory, warehouse or logistic centre: wherever goods are moved, stored, sorted, packed and otherwise handled. Such variety of equipment is reflected in the 7 product groups that compose FEM:

- Conveyors for bulk handling: conveyors moving bulk materials along a predetermined path by means of machine
- Cranes and lifting equipment: lifting and hoisting equipment, tower and harbour cranes, mobile cranes
- Elevating equipment: lift tables, dock levellers and tail lifts for vehicles
- Industrial trucks: self-propelled industrial trucks, pedestrian-propelled manual and semi-manual trucks, driverless industrial trucks, industrial wheels and castors
- Intralogistic systems: automation, control and information technologies, and integration of several types of materials handling equipment into one system
- Mobile elevating work platforms: scissor lifts, self propelled booms lifts, vehicle mounted platforms, trailer push-around, vertical personnel platforms, insulated aerial devices...
- Racking & shelving: adjustable pallet racking, drive-in racking, gravity live storage racking, plastic storage containers...

Materials handling equipment is becoming more and more automated and integrated into complete systems. In addition to mechatronic products, special attention is given to system controls, information processing and telecommunications.

Activities

The FEM mission is to represent the technical, economic and political interests of the industry, and communicate with the European institutions on its concerns and needs. FEM aims at developing a network to allow efficient exchange of information between its members and its product groups, and elaborate and defend common positions on matters affecting its industrial base. FEM encourages technical progress and safety at work through the establishment of technical recommendations, guidelines and business codes. In this framework, FEM closely collaborates with CEN, the European Committee for Standardization. The FEM Product Groups are the working bodies of FEM. They cover the wide range of products manufactured by the sector. Product groups draft and publish technical documents, follow marketing trends and serve as industry meeting points.

FEM President, Mr. Philippe Frantz, was elected in September 2008.

References

FEM profile in the European Commission’s register of interest representatives[2]

External links

Official website [3]

Requested move

User:Cipresso → FEM – European Federation of Materials Handling — A short reason for page name change. --Cipresso (talk) 11:11, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

• Note: This is supposed to be located at a subpage, such as at User:Cipresso/European Federation of Materials Handling, and any discussion at a talk page under that page: User talk:Cipresso/European Federation of Materials Handling. 199.125.109.102 (talk) 17:08, 28 November 2009 (UTC)