Installation of a new modular
loading platform system from
Thorworld Industries is
reported to have helped
increase the efficiency of
loading and unloading and
enhanced safety for Universal
Silencer.

The system has been
installed at the company’s UK
base in Hinckley, where there
is no dedicated loading bay,
to allow it to receive deliveries
on-site.

Universal Silencer supplies
engineered acoustic, emission
and filtration solutions, and it
is the size of this equipment
that has necessitated the need
for a platform system.Many
of the acoustic systems are too
large to be removed from a
lorry using a traditional yard
ramp because, as the forklift
truck reverses down the ramp,
the silencer would raise up,
hitting and damaging the roof
of the lorry.

Thorworld’s engineers
designed a bespoke, modular
system, consisting of a Type 9
loading ramp, providing
access to six Thorworld
raised platforms, which have
been connected together to
form a single structure
measuring 5.9 x 7.5m.

Safety aids include a
dockboard, dock bumpers,
flared alignment curbs,
removable hand rails and a
set of access steps.