BYD Forklift started operations in 2010 in Shaoguan (China), with a one million m2 – 50.000 units per year factory, equipped with the latest manufacturing technology such as automatic robot welding. The BYD forklifts have been since then marketed in China, and will be sold and serviced in all of Europe starting 2014. The BYD Forklift Europe headquarters is located since 2013 in Rotterdam.