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News Release from: Thorworld Industries | Subject: Loading bay equipment, accessories and safety aids
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Team on 02 April 2007
Loading bay equipment, accessories and
safety aids
Loading and unloading equipment from Thorworld Industries, is featured in a catalogue full of materials handling solutions for specifiers, purchasers and users of loading bay equipment.
The 2007/8 Product Range Catalogue from loading and unloading equipment specialists, Thorworld Industries, is packed full of materials handling solutions for specifiers, purchasers and users of loading bay equipment, accessories and safety aids The 44-page full colour catalogue provides a comprehensive source of information for the company's ever growing product line-up, covering everything needed for safe, cost-effective and profitable materials handling, as well as the protection of vehicles, plant and personnel
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 12 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Loading bay equipment, accessories and safety aids
The latest 25th anniversary product range catalogue from Thorworld Industries, is packed full of materials handling solutions for specifiers, purchasers and users.
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.
Products range from equipment for loading and unloading where there is no loading dock, such as mobile yardramps and modular docks, to the Truckloada mobile yardlift and Dockloada scissor lift platforms.
There are details of Thorworld's popular RentARamp service, which provides high quality standard or purpose-designed steel mobile yardramps for purchase or hire, on a sale or return basis, including a new low cost Economy model.
A section of the catalogue is devoted to advice regarding the points to consider when buying ramps, such as ensuring that they fully meet all the relevant European legislation, safety standards and directives.
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Modular platform reduces manual handling
Reduced manual handling and speedier loading has been achieved by Johnson Hospitality Services with a purpose-designed sloping modular platform from Thorworld Industries.
Yardlift option saved buying an extra forklift
When a warehouse had to put in an extra loading dock it had to consider the costs of buying another fork lift truck, but a mobile yardlift offered better safety, flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
One source has wide range of handling equipment
Loading and unloading equipment specialist provides a 'one-stop', single source for a wide range of high quality loading and unloading equipment and loading bay accessories and safety aids.
Thorworld Managing Director, John Meale, said: "This is an extremely important and topical subject considering the ongoing problems with inferior ramps and other loading dock equipment, without the CE mark, now 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 also 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 Handling, and is also President of the FEM Product Group on Elevating and Loading Equipment.
Other products in the new catalogue include: pallet and sack trucks; counterbalanced container lift trucks; powered pallet trucks; dock plates and boards, and dock levellers, seals and shelters; together with a comprehensive range of accessories and safety aids such as wheel guides/alignment curbs, wheel chocks, dock and traffic lights, safety mirrors, trailer safety locks, vehicle wheel locks, dock and vehicle bumpers, trailer landing leg supports, multipurpose ramps, wheelchair access ramps, sleeping policemen, impact protectors and safety bollards and barriers.
Thorworld is firmly established as a leading, one-stop, single source supplier to the loading bay and materials handling sectors, and is recognised as both a leader and innovator in the provision of quality engineered equipment, with numerous prestigious customers in distribution, logistics, transport, retailing, food, drink manufacturing and the service industries.
BSI registered with ISO 9002 accreditation since 1992, as well as CE mark certification, it was one of the first companies in the industry to achieve the latest ISO 9001:2002 international quality management standard.
Thorworld will be featuring their comprenhensive range of loading and unloading equipment, at 'Materials Handling Live' (Stand M300, Stoneleigh Park Exhibition and Conference Centre, near Coventry, 22-23 May 2007).
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