Vacuum lifters have become the ‘go to’ operator controlled lift assist for industrial sack lifting processes. Vacuum lifting equipment is now a widely recognised industrial standard tool for solving repetitive manual handling issues. And there are fewer more repetitive manual handling tasks than sack lifting – either through de-palletizing, re-palletizing or simply the palletizing process for finished product.
We find our vacuum lifting equipment most commonly implemented in de-palletizing operations. A wide range of powdered product comes in paper and plastic sacks – generally weighing between 20 and 40kg, which can be stacked as high as 1700mm. Removing an individual sack for positioning in a rip and tip process is hard work for even the fittest of workers. The mdp Handling vacuum lifter is easily implemented in to this process; helping to remove all effort and injury risks. An operative is therefore able to maintain a high work rate throughout the process – the issues of fatigue associated with manually undertaking this process is removed. As is the risk of musculoskeletal injury problems, product