A-Link Dolly launches to help warehouse lifting
Alison Handling has launched a new handling system, designed to cut transport times between the warehouse and the shelf.
The new A-Link Dolly cuts the need for cage trolleys, and inefficient storage systems.
Having worked with a major retailer on the trials, Alison Handling is confident that by using the new systems it will potentially cut staff handling times between the warehouse and the store by approximately 46%.
Glenn Broomfield, managing director of Alison Handling said: “Up until now there hasn’t been an interlinking dolly system designed with all these key features to accommodate these types of storage boxes, which means products are usually stacked inefficiently into a caged trolley to transport from the warehouse into the store. This method is more labour intensive and means that less product can be moved in one go.”
The A-Link Dolly has been over a year in development and testing and represents a major R&D investment for Alison Handling. The system is a wheeled dolly, designed to accommodate all types of plastic storage boxes, tote boxes, stack-nest crates, with a feature on the trolley to create location points for castors for safe stacking of the dollies when in storage or returned to store.
It can be interlocked on four sides with no moving parts, along with the ability to connect dollies to each other in either a portrait and/or landscape shape, giving the operative the opportunity to create a dolly train or a customised formation.
Other features include a removable handle, a recess in the base enabling a label and RFI tag to be applied and a central cavity within the Dolly is there to allow easier access and cleaning. The product is also manufactured from high density Polyethylene to meet hygiene criteria for food handling.
