Banana handling made safer
September 1st 2008 Faced with potential health and
safety concerns regarding its
workforce having to manually
unpack containers that included an
extra head-height layer of bananas,
Fyffes' Wakefield depot opted for a
LayerMaster forklift attachment
from B&B Attachments.
The clamp is designed
to cope with palleted
loads that require
splitting for easier
handling and storage.
Used with a Linde
truck, LayerMaster has
dispensed with the need
for manual handling,
and a platform and has
provided Fyffes with a
safe means of
unpacking the container
without the need to
handle heavy boxed goods above
head height. Fyffes also uses the
attachment and forklift to load
bananas onto trucks for
transportation to supermarkets.
The versatile LayerMaster
attachment can lift a third of a
2400mm high pallet at a time or
just a single layer of boxes,
enabling the load to be quickly
broken down or built up by
clamping single or multiple layers.
It can be adjusted for a wide
range of products including boxed
and frozen goods, glass and
plastics containers. As it makes
contact with the load on all four
sides it requires minimal force to
lift, thereby eliminating damage to
packaging or product.
Designed for easy and quick
removal, the LayerMaster can
quickly be moved to any location
within a warehouse. It is available
in three different mounting types
and, where multiple layer weights
or varying products need to be
handled, a special pressure valve
with three different pressure ranges
can be supplied and fitted by B&B
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