Enhancing Food Industry Safety: The Role of Sack Lifters in Efficient Handling
The demand for faster food and beverage processing has intensified due to evolving consumer habits. In recent years, a surge of “conscious consumers” has emerged—individuals who prioritise fresher, healthier foods without additives or preservatives. However, the absence of additives means that food spoils more rapidly.
Why the Food Industry Needs an Ergonomic Sack Lifter
Transferring ingredients from sacks into a hopper demands the highest level of sanitation and quality within a food facility. Often, meticulous attention to sanitation can slow down the work process, as due diligence must be observed at each step of handling food and beverages. In the manufacturing stage, slower processing of ingredients can lead to food spoilage even before it reaches the customers’ shelves.
This underscores the critical need for swift food handling while maintaining hygiene—a feat that manual handling alone cannot accomplish. Manual handling of heavy sacks filled with ingredients like flour, sugar, or grains slows production and increases the risk of contamination and workplace injuries. A sack lifter is a vital tool that allows food manufacturers to maintain both hygiene and speed in their processes.
When reflecting on procedures, you may have asked yourself…
- Are you dumping sacks of ingredients into a hopper?
- Is this task being performed manually without a lift assist?
- Does your business have a high rate of worker injury?
- Is manually dumping sacks slowing down your workflow?
If you answered “YES” to any of these questions, then it’s time to implement an ergonomic sack lifter into your workflow.
Key Benefits of Using a TAWI Sack Lifter
There are many benefits to using a vacuum sack lifter:
- It can grip and lift all types of materials of food packaging both safely and effortlessly
- It will reduce the number of employees needed for sack handling
- Your workforce flexibility will improve as it will allow anyone to handle heavy sacks, no matter their size or strength
- Just 1 person can handle sacks weighing up to 270 kg
- TAWI lifters are available in stainless steel to meet all sanitary requirements
- Using a lift assist will reduce worker injuries and in return save your business money
Our customer Cranswick Convenience Foods demonstrates the use of a TAWI vacuum lifter in their brine room. Before integrating a sack lifter into their operations, Cranswick employees faced the challenge of lifting 25kg bags all day long. To reduce strain, they wanted to introdeuce mechanical aids to eliminate manual lifting.
Since adopting ergonomic lifting solutions, the results were immediate. Manual lifting in the brine room has been eliminated, removing the need for repetitive heavy lifting. This has reduced the risk of injury.
“Before we had the lifter, I used to pick up all the bags myself and I started to feel pain in my back,” says Nirmal Singh Hans, who has worked at Cranswick Convenience Foods for 15 years. “Now, I don’t feel tired after an 8-hour shift. It’s so much easier—it’s really helped me.”
Sack Lifter Safety in Sanitary Environments
Handling sacks of food ingredients requires trust. The trust that the food being handled is safe to eat as well as the trust that food companies have in the sub-suppliers that process or produce these products, ensures that no harmful substances make their way into the food products. However, with TAWI, you don’t need to compromise. We offers safe and ergonomic stainless-steel solutions.
Food ingredient handling comes with an added layer of trust—both in terms of worker safety and product integrity. TAWI sack lifters are designed with food-grade stainless steel, ensuring:
- Corrosion resistance
- Easy cleaning and sanitation
- Durability and hygiene – critical for compliance and safety
No compromises—just safe, efficient lifting built for demanding food environments.
TAWI Sack Lifters: Built for Food Industry Demands
TAWI has a long history of supplying lifting solutions to the food industry and we understand how companies in this segment work – as well as what they need to keep a productive workflow. That is why all of our lifts are available in stainless steel. Stainless steel is the recommended material for food applications as it has robust corrosion resistance and ease of cleaning making it both durable and hygienic, two essential properties in food and beverage preparation.
Do you need a mobile sack lifter? Our TAWI Mobile Order Picker is a fully mobile vacuum lifter and is compatible with any forklift. It is the best solution when picking orders for recipes and can lift up to 80 kg. You can simply pick the bags of ingredients you need, lift them, and drive the bags to a hopper.