Linde L-MATIC HD

Overview

L-MATIC HD is an autonomous pallet stacker from Linde Material Handling (series 1173-01) for storing and retrieving Euro pallets in wide-aisle warehouses. Rated capacity is 1.6 t at a 600 mm load centre; it travels at about 6.1 km/h, runs on a 24 V battery (24 V / 375 Ah standard lead-acid, Li-ion offered) and uses infrastructure-free contour navigation. Front and rear laser scanners, a 2D curtain laser and sensor-based pallet detection cover safety and load handling; it drives to its charging station by itself for 24/7 use and can be switched to manual operation at the tiller.

Variants & pricing

Full price history

Sensors

• Laser scanners front and rear (side scanners optional instead of side bumpers)
• 360-degree safety scanner
• 2D curtain laser detecting objects above ground level
• Sensor-based pallet and load detection
• Optional 3D camera for load positioning
• Optional 1D/2D barcode reader

Locomotion

wheeled (battery-electric), infrastructure-free contour navigation

Manipulation

Arms: 0 DOF · Hands: Pallet forks 61/182/1150 mm (s/e/l), fork spread 560 mm; standard mast lift 2,344 mm, free lift 150 mm

Use cases

pallet put-away and retrieval, wide-aisle warehouse logistics, 24/7 pallet handling, combination with narrow-aisle trucks

Key facts

• Linde datasheet TB_L-MATIC_HD_HDk_1173-01 (02/2024, VDI 2198) and product page, fetched 2026-10-17: capacity 1.6 t at 600 mm load centre, service weight 1,000 kg, lift h3 2,344 mm (free lift 150 mm, mast lowered 1,665 mm, extended 4,021 mm incl. load grid), length 2,137 mm, width 800 mm, turning radius 1,712 mm, aisle width 2,910 mm (800 x 1200 pallet, lengthways).
• Lift height conflict on the product page: the technical table shows 2,344 mm and an unlabelled key figure shows 3,500 mm; the datasheet headline says 'lifting height up to 3.5 m'. The datasheet's standard masts are 2,344 / 2,844 / 3,244 / 3,744 mm and the HD column is marked as available with the 2,344 mm mast only, so 2,344 mm is the verified figure and no base height is claimed. The 3.5 m figure is not used as a spec.
• Speed: datasheet 6.12 km/h laden and unladen (6 km/h in a footnote variant), product page 6.1 km/h; 6.1 km/h used (1.7 m/s converted). Lift speed 0.15 m/s laden / 0.30 m/s unladen; gradeability 3%.
• Battery: 24 V / 375 Ah (K5), 3 PzS SL lead-acid, 333 kg; 9,000 Wh is 24 V x 375 Ah nominal and applies to the standard lead-acid battery only. Li-ion is offered but its capacity is not published. Energy consumption 1.25 kWh/h (EN 16796).
• The same datasheet covers the L-MATIC HD k (1.6 t at 625 mm load centre, 1,550 kg, 7.2 km/h, 2,844 mm lift), which is not recorded as part of this entry. Launch year not found on fetched pages, so year_available is null.
• Image: Linde turntable render of the L-MATIC HD (frame 00009) from linde-mh.com, transparent PNG laid on white.

About Linde Material Handling GmbH

German maker of forklift trucks, warehouse trucks and automated (MATIC) trucks for intralogistics.

https://www.linde-mh.com · Founded: None · HQ: Aschaffenburg, Germany