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News Release from: Thorworld Industries | Subject: Warehouse materials handling equipment
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 July 2005
Catalogue covers materials handling
equipment
Aimed at specifiers and purchasers of loading bay and associated materials handling equipment, a catalogue covers a wide range of materials handling equipment.
The latest catalogue from loading and unloading specialists, Thorworld Industries, is packed full of new products and aimed at specifiers and purchasers of loading bay and associated materials handling equipment The 44-page full colour catalogue provides information and technical specifications for the company's growing product line-up, covering everything needed for efficient materials handling solutions
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 16 Dec 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The latest 25th anniversary product range catalogue from Thorworld Industries, is packed full of materials handling solutions for specifiers, purchasers and users.
A section of the catalogue is devoted to giving advice on the important points to consider when buying ramps, such as ensuring they fully meet all the relevant European safety standards and directives.
Thorworld Managing Director, John Meale, said: "This is an extremely important and topical subject considering the current problems with inferior loading dock equipment, which does not have the CE mark, coming into the UK.
Using materials handling equipment that does not carry the CE mark, whether imported or not, threatens the health and safety of personnel in the workplace and businesses could be risking prosecution if they use it." As an active member of the British Materials Handling Federation (BMHF) and the Association of Loading and Elevating Equipment Manufacturers (ALEM), Thorworld Industries has been closely involved in the preparation and development of European safety standards.
John Meale is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics (FCILT), a former President of the BMHF, a past Chairman of ALEM and is currently a board member of the Federation Europeenne de la Manutention (FEM), the European Federation of Materials Handing, and is also President of the FEM Product Group on Elevating and Loading Equipment.
New products in the brochure include the Dockloada scissor lift platform.
The fixed unit can be installed either inside or outside a building or door and can accommodate a much larger range of vehicle heights than dock levellers, from double deck trailers to transit vans.
Trucks featured include pallet and sack models, including a powered version capable of dealing with loads up to 2,000kg at speeds of up to 9km/h, and a counterbalanced container lift truck.
To bridge and seal the gap between a truck and loading dock are a wide selection of dock plates and dockboards, dock levellers and seals and shelters.
Among new dock loading and unloading aids are an electro-mechanical vehicle wheel lock, which secures virtually any trailer type by engaging the drive's side rear tyre with an integral steel barrier, and a steel wheel chock.
Also new is the Dock Guardian safety barrier which helps prevent fork trucks, pallet trucks and personnel from falling off a loading dock.
It is designed to stop a weight of 4.5 tonnes travelling up to 4 miles/h, with little or no damage to the safety barrier.
Other restraint and protection products featured include sleeping policemen, vehicle restraints, safety bollards, protector brackets/curbs, flexi safety barriers, impact protectors and stabiliser plates.
Thorworld Industries is firmly established as a leading, one-stop, single source supplier to the loading bay and materials handling sectors, with numerous prestigious customers in distribution, logistics, transport, retailing, food, drink manufacturing and the service industries.
BSI registered with ISO 9002 accreditation since 1992 and with CE mark certification, it was one of the first companies in the industry to achieve the latest ISO 9001:2002 international quality management standard.
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