A Good Home for Combilift at I-S Manufacturing
April 27th 2009 When I-S Manufacturing set up its new manufacturing facility in Coventry, a major concern was how to offload, transport and store extremely large loads of OSB panels, which are one of the major components in the manufacture of i-SIP Structural Insulated Panels (SIP). The manoeuvrability and 4-way capability of an eight tonne capacity Combilift forklift came to the rescue, and now handles not only the OSB boards but all other materials around I-S’s production facility.
I-S Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Innovaré Systems, supplies bespoke SIP’s for sustainable building systems for contractors and housing associations across the country. The loads of OSB can be up to 6m in length, but it was the width of 2.7m which was more problematic. Trying to manoeuvre this through the access doors with anything other than a 4-truck was going to be extremely tricky. “We knew we needed something way beyond a mainstream forklift,” explains MD Andrew Orriss, “and the Combilift proved to be ideal.”
The overall width of the Combilift when carrying the OSB panels is almost as wide as the access doors, and with just a few centimetres of clearance on each side, the C8000 can now manoeuvre the boards into the storage area and lift them onto racking or block stack. As the Combilift is the only forklift on site, reliable operation is crucial, but Andrew Orriss has no worries on this count: “The Combilift is an impressive piece of kit. It is versatile and dependable, the drivers are very happy operating it, and, crucially, it has solved our OSB maneuverability problem!”
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