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Business View Magazine
Striving for Continuous
Improvement
Lift Truck Center fights complacency with top-notch customer service
The pedigree stretches even farther than the timeline.
Lift Truck Center has been in the material handling
equipment business since its parent company – Mur-
fin Inc. – purchased the operation from Oliver Han-
dling in 1982. But the link established between retired
Lift Truck Center president Bill Bolin and W.R. Murfin
stretches all the way back to the late 1950s, which
was instrumental in leading to Murfin’s subsequent
acquisition.
Murfin Inc. is a Wichita, Kan.-based family business
that got its start as Murfin Drilling Co. in 1926 and con-
solidated its assets in 1991. Murfin Drilling remains
