Lifting and moving chemical containers
Materials handling equipment specialist Lift Safe has made the lifting and moving of chemical containers much easier at the Tyne and Wear factory of filter manufacturer Essentra Components.
The challenge
Essentra Components, which manufactures and distributes a broad range of high-volume specialist plastic and fibre filter products to customers in a wide variety of markets across the world, needed a lifter to move 25-litre chemical containers on its site in Jarrow.
Each time a container needed to be replaced, the old container had to be removed before exchanging with the new one. This process used to be done manually, a heavy, awkward task that was unsafe for the operators doing it, carrying a multitude of manual handling risks.
The solution
Now that Essentra has purchased a Lift Safe compact Lifter, the operators manoeuvre it into position and press a button to raise the lifting platform in line with the 25-litre container and slide it safely and easily on to the lifting platform.
The lifting platform of the compact Lifter is manufactured with a roller at the front, making it effortless to slide the container onto the platform, from where it is then secure to transport. The whole process is now much more productive and safer.
Lift Safe’s lightweight lifters are capable of lifting up to 225kg in weight to a height of up to 3 metres. They are suitable for use in restricted spaces, as they are more compact than standard stacker trucks.
Lift Safe supplies lifters with many different attachments, and can custom design them to fit a customer’s application.
