Building productivity
February 1st 2008 Ibstock Brick is getting more
productivity and uptime at it's
facility in St Helens, Merseyside
thanks to a new fleet of Hyster
Fortens forklift trucks supplied
through Barloworld Handling.
The Roughdales Factory operates
seven days a week, manufacturing
in excess of 30 million bricks per
annum. Used to assist the fully
automated process at the site, the
three new Hyster Fortens H4.0FT
Advance forklift trucks are equipped
with a double pallet handler
attachment which doubles the
number of handling cycles per hour.
One of the trucks is used to support
the production process, while the
others are used for two eight-hour
shifts, Monday to Friday, to off-load
the packs of 500 bricks from the
production line, and store them in
the stockyard. The machines are also
used to load trucks for customer
deliveries.
The new Fortens machines are
the first Hyster trucks to operate at
an Ibstock site, and the contract was
won despite stiff competition from
the incumbent supplier. The trucks
have only recently been put into
operation at the facility, but both
the site foreman and the drivers
have a very good first impression of
not only the Fortens trucks
themselves but also the support
services provided by Barloworld
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