A reel problem solved

Mission was aware that its staff should not be handling the larger, heavier, reels that the company had started to use for labelling its food packaging, because of the risk of back injury or musculo-skeletal disorders. Mission needed a heavy-duty lifter to pick vertical reels weighing up to 60kg each off pallets in the warehouse, turn them, lift them and load them horizontally on to trolleys to be taken to the food production area where the labels are affixed. 

Lift Safe supplied Mission with five of its Lift & Drive Expando Turn Reel Manipulator lifters to handle the large, heavy reels. Using this manipulator, the reels can easily and quickly be turned through 90 degrees to enable safe, easy loading. 

The lifting boom of the Expando goes into the core of the reel, where it expands to grip the inside of the core firmly so that it can lift it up to 1.5 metres high, turn the reel and put it into a horizontal loader.