Thorworld modular loading platform improves safety

The installation of a modular loading platform system from Thorworld Industries has increased the efficiency of loading and unloading and enhanced safety for Universal Silencer.

The system has been installed at the company's UK base in Leicestershire, where there is no dedicated loading bay, to allow it to receive deliveries on-site.

Universal Silencer specialises in the supply of engineered acoustic, emission and filtration solutions for power generation, oil, gas and industrial markets.

It is the size of this equipment that has necessitated the need for a platform system.

Many of the acoustic systems are too large to be removed from a lorry using a traditional yard ramp.

As the forklift truck reverses down the ramp, the silencer would raise up, hitting and damaging the roof of the lorry.

With this in mind, Thorworld's engineers have designed a bespoke modular system.

The system consists of a Type 9 loading ramp, providing access to six Thorworld raised platforms, which have been connected together to form a single structure measuring 5.9x7.5m.

Safety has been ensured with the installation of a wide variety of Thorworld ancillary equipment and safety aids on the platform and in the surrounding area; a dockboard, dock bumpers, flared alignment curbs, fork and pallet truck raves, removable hand rails and a set of access steps.

Thorworld provides a one-stop, single source for an extensive range of high quality loading bay equipment and materials handling products, safety aids and accessories, including dock shelters and seals, dock levellers, modular loading docks, dock plates and boards, dock and vehicle bumpers, wheel chocks, vehicle restraints, traffic lights wheel guides, alignment curbs and mobile yardramps (available for purchase or rental), together with the Truckloada mobile yardlift and the Dockloada scissor lift platform.

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