Special K range lifts over 16m
August 1st 2008 Linde Material Handling
(UK) has installed three K
range very narrow aisle
trucks at the recently
expanded Davies Turner
freight and logistics hub in
Bristol. To enable pallet
retrieval from this location,
Davies Turner needed a
truck with a substantial lift
height capability – over
16m – which Linde claims is
an industry first. Linde says
the lift heights of these
newly acquired trucks
currently exceed those of
any application on record.
The new Davies Turner
hub of two warehouses,
occupies 21,000m2 and
employs over 100 staff. The
premises where the Linde
equipment operates
comprise nearly 15,000m2
of storage and house 8,000
pallet locations in the high
bay racking plus four
mezzanine floors for
pick/pack and order-sorting.
To maximise the use of floor
space, the warehouse is
racked right to the eaves of
the building and
mezzanines are built above
the ground-floor dispatch
area.
For this unique
application, specialised
materials handling
equipment was necessary.
The Linde K range of manup
very narrow aisle trucks
are of modular design.
Major components and
truck systems are chosen to
exactly match the
application. Configuration
software analyses the site
and application
requirements, and provides
the perfect match from a
potential 500,000
permutations. This pickand-
mix option for Davies
Turner allowed the
company to specify exact
requirements and not opt
for a 'one size fits all'
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