Special truck moves heavy reels

14 September 2009


UK flexible packaging specialist Printpack (European Division) recently invested to improve the safe unloading of finished reels from the high speed slitter rewinders at its Bury site. The reels for larger products such as multi-pack bags are unsuited to manual handling, as they can weigh over 40kg.

The Reel & Shaft Handling Company (RaSHCo) custom designed a stacker truck that allows Printpack’s operators to safely remove finished product reels from the line and move them on to the labelling, wrapping and palletising area. The truck’s cradle slides easily into place under the reels, then gently pulls them from the shafts as the operator reverses the truck. The hydraulically powered cradle then rotates the reels to vertical, ready for loading onto a pallet.

A separate vertical reel lifter mounted on a customised air hoist, hanging from a swing-jib crane, allows the operators‚ to off-load the reels of up to 95Kg, quickly and with virtually no effort.




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