Combilift is Marley’s safe space saver
September 21st 2007 Three 4-tonne diesel powered Combilift 4-way forklifts working at Marley Plumbing and Drainage have enabled massive savings to be made on storage space and ensured safer handling of long loads at the company’s manufacturing and distribution facility.
Marley manufactures pipe, gutter and associated products at the 40 acre site.
The Combilifts have enabled Marley to do away with its old system based on a combination of sideloaders and counterbalance forklifts for handling 6m lengths of pipe, extruded profiles and large bore pipes.
This streamlined approach has certainly paid off according to Warehouse Manager Stuart Hawkins: “The beauty of the Combilifts is their versatility and ability to work as three machines in one. We can offload and manoeuvre product around the site with just the one type of forklift, reducing any double handling. Using the one truck also eliminates the need for drivers to chop and change from one type of forklift to another, contributing to safer working practices.”
Considerable savings have also been made on space, as Stuart explains: “Our major problem used to be the necessity to have 7m wide aisles to manoeuvre 6m long loads. With the Combilifts we have cut aisle-widths to 2 or 2.5 metres, so we can store a massively increased quantity in the same space.”
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