Handling takes off
April 1st 2009 The extreme length of
product stored at CAV
Aerospace's warehousing
facility in Flintshire, North
Wales, was proving too much
for standard counterbalance
forklifts to cope with, so the
it opted for a specialist
solution from Combilift.
CAV Aerospace supplies
stringers – aluminium
elements which add
strength and suppleness to
aircraft wings – to aircraft
manufacturer Airbus. As
boxes of stringers can be
over 20m long, this is a
challenging load for any
operation to handle.
An LPG powered C5000
Combilift offloads incoming
product from delivery trucks
in the yard, takes it to the
29,000ft2 warehouse for
storage in high-bay racking.
The truck then reloads boxes
of stringers when they are
scheduled for delivery to
Airbus. Sideways travel
means that getting even the
longest 21m long boxes
through a 5m access door is
a sum that now adds up.
Combilift supplied fork
spreader attachments to aid
stability when manoeuvering
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