Crown Equipment Corporation is a privately held $1 Billion Electric Lift Truck Manufacturer with corporate headquarters in New Bremen, Ohio USA.  It has manufacturing facilities - 3 in USA, 1 Ireland, 1 Germany, 1 Mexico and 1 Australia.  In the World's manufacturing #1 in Electric Lift Truck sales and #5 in overall Lift Truck sales.  We are in the top 5 for our designs & ergonomics along with Mercedes, Porche etc for Industrial designs.
Crown looks for long term, high quality manufacturers to supply as well as help design parts for its lift trucks.  Crown is very highly vertically integrated with its manufacturing.

Crown is a job shop in that many of our lift trucks are made to order. Large quantities for Crown is probably 5000-10,000 parts/year of a casting, forging, machined part.