Wood, Steel, & Glass Lifting & Handling
TAWI provides a range of lifting solutions for the wood, steel, and glass industries, enabling safe and efficient handling of heavy, bulky materials like wooden boards and metal sheets. With TAWI’s user-friendly vacuum lifters, companies can improve productivity, reduce worker strain, and streamline processes like stacking, palletizing, and CNC loading.
In today’s demanding wood and steel processing industries, companies must be fast, flexible, and dependable. Constant streamlining and internal optimization helps companies stay strong and competitive. It’s necessary to evaluate how lifting heavy, cumbersome wooden boards or metal sheets manually often isn’t the safest or most efficient option.
To help companies meet these demands – and to increase productivity and profit – TAWI offers a wide range of wood and sheet metal lifting devices for material handling of sheets, metal, wood panels, and associated components. With a TAWI lifting device, your company can profit from increased efficiency and stay at the forefront of your industry.
Where can TAWI improve your material handling processes?
Cost-effective stacking and palletizing
Handling sheets of wood, plastic, metal, or glass usually entails many liftings to and from pallets and machines, which puts employees at risk for injuries. Also, palletizing sheets and board often requires tilting them between horizontal and vertical positions – a movement that is difficult and strenuous when done without lifting aids.
TAWI vacuum lifting solutions allow employees to lift and tilt items in a safe, efficient, and ergonomic manner. Operators learn the user-friendly controls quickly, so stacking and palletizing sheets can become a problem-free and cost-effective process any employee can complete. This gives your business improved productivity as well as greater flexibility and resistance to changes in staffing or unexpected staff absences.
Heavy lifting of wood, metal & glass
Each operation has unique manufacturing and assembly processes. The combination of extremely heavy material and sensitive surfaces requires a balance of strength, dexterity, and adaptability. This requires a solution that is as flexible as it is rigorous, like TAWI’s flexible component-based system.
The two-person task of handling long and heavy sheets can now be safely performed by one operator using a TAWI vacuum lifter or hoist lift. Our solutions lift the full weight of the load to prevent strain on workers’ bodies and decrease the risk of injuries. Also, the precise transporting and positioning of heavy, bulky materials with a TAWI system means the sheets don’t get damaged during the material handling process.
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CNC loading
Loading and unloading CNC machines typically involves manual handling of heavy components and materials, such as plywood, MDF panels, plastic, or non-ferrous metals, into the machine centre. Often, the operator must reach over the machine in a non-ergonomic way that puts the employee’s safety and the product at risk. Also, many materials require two people to lift them, which can be time consuming and costly work process.
TAWI’s vacuum lifters are a versatile tool that will optimise your process of loading or unloading materials. They offer precise loading to ensure products aren’t damaged and improve employee health and safety as the machine does the heavy lifting. Make a sound investment where one employee can load and unload the CNC safely, ergonomically, and swiftly.
Reliable, Long-Lasting Lifting Solutions with Full Support
TAWI lifting solutions are easily integrated into your operational flow and robustly built to be utilised for many years to come. We offer full service and maintenance agreements to support your operations and reduce the risk of unnecessary downtime. Contact TAWI today and we’ll discuss the possibilities for optimising your process. There’s a strong chance we can find a way to increase long-term productivity, employee health, and workforce flexibility.