What Challenges Can TAWI Food Handling Equipment Help You Overcome?
Manual handling in food production creates safety risks, inefficiencies, and quality challenges, especially when lifting meat, dairy products, and packaged food items.
Common manual handling challenges:
- High risk of musculoskeletal injuries from repetitive or heavy lifting
- Difficulty handling slippery, flexible, or uneven food products
- Operator fatigue that causes slower production and errors
- Increased risk of product damage or contamination
- Challenges meeting ergonomic and health & safety requirements
TAWI food handling equipment replaces manual lifting with controlled vacuum technology. Now, operators can lift food products with minimal effort. This improves workplace safety and efficiency.
How Does Food Handling Equipment Improve Operations?
Efficient food production depends on safe handling, consistent workflows, and reliable equipment. TAWI’s vacuum lifters support all three by removing physical strain from daily lifting tasks.
Key Benefits
- Increased safety: have less physical strain & workplace injuries
- Better productivity: faster handling of food items
- Hygienic options: equipment available in stainless steel for hygiene-sensitive environments
- Improved ergonomics: better way to lift items and less operator fatigue
- Consistent handling: lift sensitive or heavy food products efficiently
- Flexible systems: TAWI’s solutions can integrate into existing production lines

What Food Lifting Situations Can TAWI Equipment Help With?

Direct Contact with Food
TAWI can help when operations require direct contact with a food item to lift it.
- Dairy products: Handles direct contact with dairy products like cheese blocks for quick and safe lifting
- Meat Products: Assists with lifting and moving raw, frozen, or unpackaged meat in food processing environments
Packaged Food Items
When food items are packaged, TAWI’s solutions can help lift and move it.
- Flexible to handle different items, like bags, boxes, drums, etc.
- Can create custom suction feet and tooling for unique applications


General Food Handling Processes
Your food operations can move smoothly with a TAWI vacuum lifter or trolley.
- Transfers food products between conveyors, pallets, and processing stations
- Adjust product orientation for inspection, packaging, or processing
- Move food products efficiently to or from pallets while reducing strain on operators
Explore Food Handling Equipment
High Frequency Lifter
High speed vacuum lifter for efficient food handling. For loads <143 lbs.
View the High Frequency Lifter - High Frequency LifterMulti-Functional Lifter
This versatile vacuum lifter is our most flexible lifting tool, handling goods of all shapes and sizes easy and efficiently for loads < 595 lbs.
View the Multi-Functional Lifter - Multi-Functional LifterStainless Steel Lifting Trolleys
Mobile stainless steel lifters, ideal for material handling in cleanroom areas. For loads <550 lbs.
View the Stainless Steel Lifting Trolleys - Stainless Steel Lifting TrolleysWhy Choose TAWI Food Lifting Equipment?
“TAWI lifting equipment has significantly facilitated the lifting of cheese. The employees are very satisfied.”
Jessica Sehlin Human Resource Manager
Learn more about why you should chose TAWI.


