Storage and handling
Equipment associated with the storing of products and the picking and moving of such products around a plant or warehouse area. Includes gantries, trucks, shelving and racking, stacking and picking, automated systems, cranes, barcode readers, chemical and gas storage, tanks/silos and bulk containers.
Product & Service Resources
Vodex offers standard and bespoke industrial furniture for range of sectors weblink
Industrial furniture — including chairs, worktables, workbenches, shelving, cabinets, drawer units and manual assembly lines — is available from Vodex.
ESD storage boxes from Vodex are collapsible and lightweight weblink
Vodex offers a range of collapsible ESD storage boxes to address storage and return applications where space is at a premium.
Foldaway-style drinks holders from EMKA are suitable for commercial vehicle manufacturers weblink
Cup and can drinks holders from EMKA are aimed at commercial vehicle manufacturers and are available in a range of colours.
Case study: Advanced Handling designs and installs mezzanine lift for an Italian bakery download
Advanced Handling has designed and installed a mezzanine lift for Il Fornaio, an Italian bakery specialising in the production of focaccia, ciabatta and panini breads. The lift is able to reach a height of 3,800mm and with a capacity of 500kg. It has been specially designed to take two roll cages, each measuring 920 x 840mm, and to enable fully automated operation between floors.
Case study: bespoke scissor table enables Cuesim to resolve manual handling issue download
A bespoke scissor table designed to function in three ways from Advanced Handling has enabled Cuesim, a manufacturer of advanced helicopter simulators, to resolve a manual handling issue. The scissor table can act as an aid to loading and unloading the cockpit modules with the use of a roller bed and winch; it can act as a working platform with a solid deck to stand on, with hand rails all around; and it can act as a maintenance platform for the cockpit modules, with access from underneath ...
Case study: Advanced Handling manufactures pit-mounted tables for Coca Cola Enterprises download
Advanced Handling has provided bespoke pit-mounted tables for Milton Keynes-based Coca Cola Enterprises, which processes approximately 350 vending machines every week. In order for the company’s 13 specially trained engineers to work safety and comfortably at their workstations, they require the vending machines to be lifted up to a height of around 1.5m. Advanced Handling’s solution enables the vending machines to be placed directly on the table surfaces.
Case study: mezzanine lift from Advanced Handling resolves safety issue at Cobham download
Advanced Handling has supplied a mezzanine lift to Cobham Mission Equipment, an aerial refuelling supplier, to resolve the health and safety issue of staff moving stock between levels using stairs. The device — which is being used at Cobham’s new site in Wimborne, Dorset — is capable of raising to 4.2m and can lift up to 250kg.
Case study: Advanced Handling develops scissor lift table for high-security location download
Advanced Handling has designed and manufactured a fully bespoke scissor lift table for use at a high-security location where products are tested to destruction using electromagnetic waves. The table is able to lift to a capacity of 2,000kg and is fitted with four hydraulically actuated props that activate when the table is in the raised position to lock the scissor platform at the correct height.
Case study: Advanced Handling platforms help aerospace company resolve cleaning problem download
Advanced Handling has designed and developed three bespoke platforms measuring 9 x 2m for an aerospace manufacturer to help resolve a cleaning problem in its composite tooling mould production process. The platforms provide better access for cleaning the moulds and have minimised the health and safety risk for staff working on the moulds.
Metcase introduces ventilated cases designed to facilitate in-rack thermal management weblink
Metcase, a brand of OKW Enclosures, has launched ventilated versions of its Combimet series 19in (48cm) rack cases, which are suitable for applications such as rack-mounted test and measurement systems as well as networking and communications equipment.
Suppliers
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Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology download article
"Providing Cost-Effective Solutions to Industrial Problems"
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Roemheld video download article
Roemheld (UK) specialises in delivering flexible, cost effective, workholding solutions.Solutions that are designed to increase work throughput while also reducing handling times, raw material required per billet and overall cycle times.Solutions that work harder to improve customers' competitiveness ...
