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Loading dock and yard handling equipment
News Release from: Thorworld Industries | Subject: Dock ramp and leveller
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 January 2008
Dock ramp and leveller cut truck
turnround time
By combining a yard ramp and an extending dock leveller, an appliance manufacturer has cut down the turnaround time for unloading trucks.
By combining a yard ramp and an extending dock leveller, a kitchen appliance manufacturer, CDA Group, has cut down the turnaround time for unloading trucks The 10 tonne capacity Thorworld ramp is positioned inside the good inwards warehouse at the company's Langar, Nottingham site
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 25 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Reduced manual handling and speedier loading has been achieved by Johnson Hospitality Services with a purpose-designed sloping modular platform from Thorworld Industries.
With an overall length of 12.2m and a useable width of 2250mm, the ramp is solidly built with a steel superstructure using the latest solid beam technique.
It can be raised to a height of 1680mm.
Fixed to one end of the ramp is an electro hydraulic dock leveller measuring 2250wide x 2500mm long.
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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.
Incorporating a telescopic sliding lip which can be extended up to 500mm and operated to +1.6m and -900mm, it can reach right inside to the floor of the vehicle being unloaded.
The versatile system is used to help unload all the different types and sizes of vehicles that serve the warehouse.
These vary from standard container trucks to low-wheelbase Continental-style vehicles whose floors can be as low as one metre above ground The system can be set up automatically in seconds by the push of a button, allowing fork lift trucks to quickly enter a vehicle to begin unloading.
The platform has a 3000mm x 3600mm area, giving ample room for a forklift truck to manoeuvre and extra space to stock products if required.
It is fitted with safety rails.
Thorworld also supplied associated dock bumpers and wheel alignment curbs for additional safety and protection of vehicles and the building.
Thorworld mobile yard ramps are ruggedly built and are ideal for the fast loading and unloading of vehicle trailers and containers by fork truck - particularly where there is no raised loading dock.
They are designed and tested to meet the latest European quality and safety standards and directives, said Thorworld to manufacturingtalk.com, as well as bearing the CE mark.
Heights range from 890 to 1680mm, and to keep them in top condition and comply with appropriate legislation, Thorworld provides a comprehensive service and maintenance back-up facility.
Available as light, medium and heavy duty models, with 7,000kg, 10,000kg, 12,000kg or 15,000kg capacities, they can be purchased outright or rented through the company's specialist RentARamp operation, with a sale or return option.
Customised models can also be supplied.
* About Thorworld - Thorworld provides a one-stop, single source for a wide range of high quality loading and unloading equipment and loading bay accessories and safety aids, such as: dock shelters and seals, dock levellers, dock plates and boards, dock and vehicle bumpers, wheel chocks and modular loading docks and mobile yard ramps, as well as the Truckloada mobile yardlift and the Dockloada scissor lift platform.
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