Still quality wins Cadbury contract
August 1st 2006

Total Materials Handling (TMH), STILL distributor for the Republic of Ireland, recently won the order to supply Cadbury's gum base manufacturing plant at Tallaght, Dublin, with a new fleet of STILL forklift trucks and warehouse equipment.

The manufacturing plant produces gum base in pellet form, which is shipped from the plant to other Cadbury Schweppes processing plants around the world.

It is reported that TMH won the Cadbury contract because of its proven service support and the high quality STILL product.

Two STILL R 60-20 Compact electric counterbalance forklift trucks are used in the Goods-In and Goods-Out areas. Rossa Farrell, production team leader for Cadbury, comments: "We needed a reliable truck with sufficient capacity and short enough wheelbase to use inside the lorry containers and on the dock levellers.

The STILL R 60 Compact is the ideal truck as it has the same capacity as larger trucks but with smaller overall dimensions." The R 60 range has since been superseded by the new STILL RX 60 range, but the original model still offers value for money, low total cost of ownership, 1000 hour service intervals, energy recovery of up to 15% under braking and plugging for longer working periods between charging. .

The two R 60-20 Compacts also feed the production area with raw materials, working in conjunction with the EXU low lift powered pallet truck.

The EXU is a new model and can be operated easily without any special knowledge. Energy saving features such as the optimised shunt wound drive unit and end of stroke shut off which automatically stops the pump, result in a high turn-round of loads on a single battery charge.

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