Logistics & Materials Handling Blog

With a number of businesses temporarily shut or operating at decreased capacity, the need or demand for forklift operations may have decreased or stopped entirely.

This week’s blog shares some tips for properly storing a forklift for extended periods of times such as during shutdowns, inclement weather or seasonal needs.

Following these tips will ensure your forklift is ready to return to operation when called upon, reducing the risk of unnecessary delays and costs of
servicing or repairing the unit to ensure it is fit for use before returning to service.

This weeks blogs looks at 12 safety ideas to improve warehouse safety.

All forklifts and materials handling equipment (MHE) have a maximum lift capacity as specified by the manufacturer.

The overall rated capacity of a forklift is calculated based on a number of factors to specify the maximum weight a forklift or MHE can safely lift at any one time.

This week’s blog looks at 5 key consideration to help understand a forklifts lifting capacity.

A correctly designed and implemented warehouse layout can lead to a number of benefits, this week’s blog looks at three real life examples of how the implementation of a more efficient warehouse layout has positively impacted our clients.

Recycling plants are unforgiveable working environments for operators and forklifts.

Units need to be able to stand up to the more severe operating conditions of the plant environment.

Hyster has worked closely with industry partners to design and engineer its cool truck variant of its standard industry leading forklifts.

All construction sites have requirements for forklifts to assist in load and unload goods as well as transporting them around the site.

This week blogs looks at the types of construction industry forklifts and what tasks they are adept at carrying out.

The rise in popularity of electric forklifts in conjunction with continued environmental concerns surround greenhouse gas emissions and availability of natural resources has led to manufacturers researching and designing a new type of forklift powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

This week’s blog and discusses some of the advantages of hydrogen powered forklifts.

Before renting a forklift there are a number of key considerations to ensure the most suitable unit for the application is selected.

Five of the most important considerations are detailed in this week’s blog.

With warehouse rents in Melbourne increasing by 5.5% in 2019, retailers and owners are looking to maximise the amount of usable warehouse space in their existing facilities.

One way this is occurring is by reconfiguring warehouse setups with narrower aisles and adopting the use of a wide variety of specialist very narrow aisle (VNA) materials handling units.

This week’s blog highlights some of the key narrow aisle materials handling units available from Adaptalift Group.

Easy to install and operate forklift bin tipper attachments allow the easy and rapid movement and dumping of product and waste.

This week’s blog looks at the features and benefits of using bin tipper attachments.