Rent Hyster
Equipment in Canada

The Willamette Ersted Company, which would eventually become Hyster, began building its first industrial lifting equipment in Portland, Oregon in 1929 - just as North American industrial logistics was transitioning from manual handling to mechanized material movement in a transformation that the company's products would help drive. The Hyster name, derived from the German word "hoist," was adopted in the 1930s as the brand's industrial forklift line gained recognition among warehouse and manufacturing operators who valued its heavy-duty engineering and the ability to handle loads that lighter competitor machines could not manage. That identity as the heavy-duty industrial choice has never left the Hyster-Yale Group's DNA.

The H-series counterbalanced forklift line spans one of the widest capacity ranges in the forklift industry - from compact 1-tonne electric models for warehouse operations to massive 52-tonne diesel units deployed in ports and steel mills. Canadian industries that demand the upper end of this capacity range include the Port of Vancouver and Port of Halifax container terminals, the Thunder Bay and Hamilton steel operations, the Quebec and British Columbia aluminum smelting facilities, and the heavy manufacturing plants that produce the machinery and components that Canada's resource industries depend on. Hyster's engineering emphasis on structural durability, heavy-duty drivetrain components, and robust mast designs reflects decades of feedback from exactly these demanding industrial environments.

The RS reach stacker series addresses the container handling segment that has become increasingly important as Canadian port volumes grow with expanding Asia-Pacific and Atlantic trade flows. RS reach stackers can stack loaded 20- and 40-foot ISO containers in second and third rows, handling the container density requirements of modern container terminals at a fraction of the infrastructure cost of automated stacking cranes. Canadian port operators and intermodal logistics facilities have deployed Hyster reach stackers as core fleet assets, and the machines' ability to continue operating reliably through the demanding cycle counts of high-volume container terminals validates Hyster's heavy-duty engineering approach.

Hyster Canada supports the national industrial and construction fleet through a network of dealer branches in every major Canadian industrial market, with French-language service support in Quebec. The company's Hyster Tracker telematics system provides Canadian fleet managers with operator performance data, impact detection alerts, and maintenance scheduling information that supports the safety management programs required by Canadian workplace health and safety legislation - turning forklift fleet management from a reactive to a proactive discipline.