HYDRAULIKPRESSE - HANSA-FLEX Hydraulics Canada Inc.

MAGAZINER
The logistics sector is booming, and globalisation is
resulting in cargo handling that is not only showing
continuous growth but also has to take place at
ever-increasing speed. International trade is thriving,
something that mainly benefi ts the stock management
sector. Here acceleration of the processes involved
calls for sophisticated storage systems, which
need to fi t together smoothly in the interaction between
rack and truck.
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Getting to the top with Magaziner
Adaptation of high-lift trucks
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This in particular applies to the latest high-rack
warehouses with picking facilities, making use
of special trucks. Magaziner GmbH, which was
founded in 1975 and is managed by the owners as
a family fi rm, specialises in the development, design
and manufacture of combi narrow-aisle trucks.
Magaziner originally made these industrial trucks
– as they are offi cially known – for the brands
Lansing and Linde: very stable and reliable vehicles
featuring fl exible narrow-aisle technology. These
special industrial trucks are characterised by their
individual manufacture. “This means that we can
specially tailor this equipment to the specifi c features
of the customer’s warehouse”, enthuses Magaziner
sales manager Hans-Jürgen Ebsen. While the
competition frequently only off ers product versions
in four sizes, Magaziner can supply overall widths
ranging from 1,000 to 2,600 millimetres - in other
words, especially narrow or wide vehicles, which
with a length of 2,850 millimetres can also be extremely
short and manoeuvrable. With this size
the industrial trucks can be closely adapted to their
subsequent application in terms of the design in
increments of one centimetre – so allowing them
to work equally well in narrow-aisle warehouses
as in halls with large widths for bulky products.
The adaptability of these trucks is of advantage to
the operators of warehouses in the service sector in
order to optimise quiet running and ensure ergonomic
design for picking.
An ideal combination
Such variable adaptation is a convincing reason for
customers to use this equipment. Magaziner only
recently received a major order from a car manufacturer
which ordered 70 trucks for the company’s
logistics system. The enquiry involved narrow-aisle
combi trucks as the manufacturer was already using
picking equipment manned by a driver who
rides up with the pallet to the storage location and
can remove or transfer the goods to stock by hand
as appropriate. This procedure not only brings ergonomic
benefi ts for staff but also more eff ective utilisation
of the space in the high-rise rack as pallets
can be precisely positioned by operators.
Where once there was often only room for three
pallets because visibility from the ground was no
longer very good at heights from six metres, the
driver riding up with the truck can now store four
pallets, so making better use of the capacities available.
It is also easier to remove individual items
from the pallets, also simplifying picking.
ISSUE DECEMBER 2007