DEUTZ and the KION Group announced the strengthening of their partnership with a new long-term arrangement. The two companies are expanding their long-standing cooperation on large forklift trucks of the KION premium brand Linde to include volume models of the premium platforms. These will be successively equipped with the newly developed 2.2 litre engine from DEUTZ. There will be a diesel and a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) version of the engine when the EU Stage V emissions standard comes into force in 2019.

The new engine is based on the very successful TCD 2.9 DEUTZ engine series, which is already in use in a range of construction equipment, industrial equipment and agricultural machinery. The new three-cylinder engine shares key characteristics and components with the current four-cylinder TCD 2.9 engine. The TCD 2.2 diesel engine will in future cover the 25 to 55kW power range.

The LPG engine will be used up to a power output of 42kW. DEUTZ will unveil the engine and its technical details to the general public at bauma, the trade fair for the construction equipment industry, in Munich, from 11 to 17 April 2016.