As the drive to reduce emissions continues, power technologies are enabling the shift to clean power options for a greater range of capacities and applications – including the electrification of heavy-duty forklifts and even container handlers. This white paper examines factors to consider when electrifying materials handling equipment for intense industries and applications.
Heavy-duty battery electric forklifts and other high-capacity electric materials handling equipment like container handlers rely on high-voltage battery systems. This white paper explores the safety considerations for maintenance and service that operations must understand to help prevent electrical danger or injury.
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The metals industry plays a fundamental role in the growth and development of major industries and the greater global economy.
Industrial trucks depend on strong, reliable power to move cement for concrete operations, shipping containers at ports, and ingredients for beverage bottling and food processing.
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Is your operation doing enough to promote lift truck operating best practices? Read this whitepaper to discover the three layers of safety your application should consider.
In Europe, the largest share of all fatal accidents atwork took place while people were driving or on boardtransport or handling equipment (17.2 %). Losing controlof machines, tools, or transport and handling equipmentis also the leading cause of both non-fatal and fatalaccidents, accounting for 25.7 % of the latter in the EU.
Demanding materials handling applications, such as in the manufacturing, steel, and agriculture industries, have historically depended on lift trucks with internal combustion engines (ICEs), due to their consistent power delivery and high performance.
Read the whitepaperIndustrial manufacturing is a complex and dynamic sector. In today’s global market, one key area affected by changes, challenges, and trends is the warehousing operations within these tough applications.
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Demanding industries like transport and manufacturing
have long relied on internal combustion engine (ICE)
forklifts, even in indoor settings. That’s changing. Electric
motive power is increasingly popular among high-intensity
operations, and electric options for forklifts are no longer
limited to lead-acid batteries. The opportunity is there,
but what should you know about electrification for indoor
forklift applications?
Two large providers of paper and packaging solutions in the US faced similar challenges within their material handling operations. In order to limit costs, reduce emissions, improve their work environment and boost labour utilisation, the paper and packaging companies partnered with Hyster.
Read the whitepaperRobotics are past the awareness stage. From horizontal transportation to storing and retrieving pallet loads at height, increasingly capable robotic solutions are becoming regular fixtures at manufacturing and automation events, and in trade and business publications across the globe.
Read the WhitepaperWhen any job or activity becomes second nature, familiarity often breeds inattentiveness—a sense of “autopilot” kicks in, and carelessness can result. Or, if a task or job can be completed more efficiently using some sort of shortcut, human nature will often dictate that action. Unfortunately, both distraction and corner-cutting can lead to disaster for the individual and others. In the materials handling industry, specifically those facilities using forklifts and industrial trucks, safe practices involve multiple layers of application from truck and machinery operations, to employee and visitor conduct
Read the WhitepaperSevere congestion in container yards can wreak havoc on port terminal operations and subsequent stages of the supply chain.
Read the WhitepaperWith automation, increased connectivity and evolving labour demographics reshaping industrial landscapes, change is constant, and the steel industry is no exception.
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In tough industrial materials handling operations, no two applications face the same challenges. Even stakeholders across a single organisation will have different priorities
when it comes to selecting lift trucks.
Across the world, focus on reducing materials handling
equipment fuel emissions is intensifying. Sometimes
to meet corporate environmental objectives, and often
hastened by local emissions standards and regulations.
Although they’re not often top of mind, forklift power sources affect your operations every day because the lift trucks they power are responsible for delivering parts and materials throughout your facility and moving final products out. These are bookend functions that keep your operation moving.
Read the WhitepaperPorts and terminals all over the world continue to seek ways to reduce their impact on the environment. Port equipment, Reachstackers and container handlers in particular have all been a major area of focus.
Read the WhitepaperToday, wood is as much of a key resource as ever, seen commonly in the production of furniture, construction products, and more. Considering its long history, it is no surprise that this sector has been one of the more traditional industries when it comes to materials handling.
Read the WhitepaperForklifts have more power source options today than ever. With so many choices available, it’s a perfect time to reconsider if you’re using the right ones.
Read the WhitepaperWhat are the trends driving evolution in the logistics industry? And how does materials handling equipment help third-party logistics (3PL) firms rise to these challenges?
Read the whitepaperThe extraction of raw materials through mining, quarrying and forestry. Constructing infrastructure and buildings. Manufacturing and supplying materials and products. Maintenance, operations, and waste disposal. All of these activities form part of the construction industry, a highly diverse sector that is cemented into the fabric of society and the economy across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Read the WhitepaperFew products as commonplace as paper go through such an extensive lifecycle. From the forest as raw material, to the pulp mill, paper mill, printing house, warehouse, port or terminal, or logistics operation before its final distribution as whatever finished paper product it becomes.
Read the WhitepaperYour port terminal operation is going zero emissions. The main question is how?
Read the WhitepaperDo you have a plan if container handling equipment suddenly fails? Have you taken steps to make sure your operation is not caught unprepared? Are you taking steps to reduce the risk of failure to begin with?
Read the WhitepaperCalifornia’s climate commitment to deriving 50% of the state’s electricity from renewable resources by 2030 is impacting ports along the West Coast. It’s a bold move, but it’s achievable if technology and the infrastructure to support and charge it come together.
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