Lifting Insights
Solar Panel Lifting Equipment for a Growing Industry
The solar industry is expanding faster than ever. As production volumes increase, one challenge grows just as quickly — safe and efficient material handling.
Future Trends and Innovations in Airport Baggage Systems
As global air travel continues to expand, airport baggage systems are under increasing pressure to become faster, smarter, and more sustainable. Passenger expectations for seamless, stress-free journeys are driving airports and ground-handling operators to rethink traditional baggage processes.
Optimise Packaging with Roll Material Handling Equipment
Handling heavy rolls of paper, film, and corrugated board is a daily challenge in packaging production. Without the right equipment, it leads to injuries, wasted materials, and costly downtime. Roll material handling equipment provides a smarter, safer way to lift, tilt, and move rolls.
Ergonomic Lifting Solutions: Reduce Workplace Injuries in Food & Beverage Manufacturing
In the fast-paced food and beverage industry, employee safety is just as critical as production output. For safety managers, the challenge is clear: how do you reduce injuries without slowing down production? The answer lies in ergonomic lifting solutions.
Pharmaceutical material handling | Safe & Reliable Solutions
This guide explores what pharmaceutical material handling is, common challenges in pharmaceutical manual handling and solutions that create safe, reliable, and ergonomic workflows.
Cold Chain Storage: Challenges and Solutions for Worker Health & Safety
Maintaining the correct temperature for sensitive goods is essential in cold chain logistics. Companies must navigate strict regulations while also protecting worker safety, making it crucial to find solutions that enhance both compliance and productivity.
Manual Lifting vs Smart Lifting in the Modern Workplace
From warehouses to factories, manual lifting safety remains important as ever, given that manual lifting is a part of daily operations. But behind every box lifted or load heaved is a hidden cost: injury, absenteeism and long-term health consequences for workers.
Smart Lifting vs Full Automation: Finding the Balance in Manufacturing Efficiency
Flexible material handling is crucial for unlocking greater manufacturing efficiency, but in a world racing toward automation, choosing the right solution isn’t always straightforward.
Lifting Weight Limits at Work: What's the Maximum You Can Lift?
This guide explores maximum weight limits for lifting at work. It provides insights on recommended maximum weights for employees and offer practical tips for maintaining a safe working environment.
Smart Lifting Starts Here – Welcome to the New TAWI Website
We’ve launched our new scalable and adaptable website to enhance customer experience and digital presence.
Handle More with Less Effort – Introducing TAWI FlexiGrip
In today’s fast-moving logistics and warehouse environments, time is critical — but so is safety and reliability. Lifting systems need to keep up with the demands of modern operations, especially when the loads aren’t always perfectly aligned or evenly packed. That’s why we developed TAWI FlexiGrip: a new smart suction foot designed for high-speed box handling.
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.
Visit TAWI at CeMAT 2025: Discover a Mobile Solution for Your Lifting Needs
Save the date! TAWI will be at CeMAT 2025, Australia’s leading trade show focused on intralogistics, robotics and automation, warehousing, supply chain management, and material handling. Come to Sydney to see TAWI’s mobile lifting solutions in action.
Innovation in Food and Beverage Industry: Trends & Challenges in 2025
Innovation in food and beverage industry is driven by shifting consumer demands, technological disruption, and sustainability concerns. To stay competitive in 2025 and beyond, businesses must not only keep up with evolving food industry trends but also proactively address the challenges that come with change.
The types of lifting equipment that simplify material handling
As you explore ways to streamline and optimise operations in your warehouse or production plant — it’s time to consider lifting equipment. There are a variety of lifters and accessories to choose from beyond traditional forklifts.
The True Cost of Getting Baggage Handling Wrong
People may joke about how baggage is not handled with care or often gets lost at transfer locations when they travel. But the truth is passengers have high expectations about their baggage, and there is a cost when baggage handling is done poorly – a cost that is being paid by staff, productivity, and budget.
The (Re)evolution of the food packaging process
Goods and products must be protected and preserved if they are to get from where they are produced to where they are used without being damaged. And while modern packaging does a remarkable job at safeguarding contents, smart companies are now understanding that how you handle the food packaging process is just as important.
Creating optimal health & safety in the food and beverage industry
Lifting operations are an integral part of the food and beverage industry. Unfortunately, they can also be a key source of injuries or workplace absence. Implementing occupational health and safety in the food and beverage industry goes far past meeting government standards and laws, it has a major impact on your business.
Top logistics trends in 2024
The logistics industry is constantly changing and adapting to the rapid growth of technology and the need to conserve the environment. For any business to stay ahead of the curve and remain competitive in these times, it must be flexible enough to accommodate the latest technological advancements, new processes, and strategies to succeed.
Sustainability and Savings in Food & Beverage
When considering TAWI vacuum lifters, lifting trolleys, and mobile lifting solutions, the initial draw lies in their efficiency and safety benefits. These tools streamline lifting tasks, reduce physical strain on workers, and transform two-person jobs into seamless solo operations.
Efficient Loading and Unloading
Well-organised loading and unloading are key to an efficient logistic process. Taking a step towards automation in your manual handling processes is an essential strategy to make your logistic workforce more efficient.
Streamline logistics: enhance efficiency with the right container unloading solution
Container unloading is one of the few remaining labour-intensive aspects of the modern economy. Due to the diverse range of items and the limited spaces within which they are packed, loading and unloading these large steel crates are among the last processes in logistics that rely heavily upon manual labour.
Why material handling in F&B is so important
Material handling is an essential aspect of the food and beverage (F&B) industry, encompassing the movement, storage, protection, and control of products throughout the manufacturing process. Effective material handling ensures that food products are safely and efficiently transported from production to packaging, storage, and distribution.
5 Steps to improve operational efficiency in logistics
Facing challenges such as labour shortages and safety risks, traditional logistics methods struggle to maintain operational efficiency. Incorporating technologies like GPS tracking, automation, and innovative vacuum lifters can not only boost operational efficiency but also reduce costs, improve safety, and ensure customer satisfaction.
Helping food manufacturers keep up with demands
Food and Beverage plant operators know better than most the importance of marginal gains and precise optimisations. While most businesses downsized during the COVID19 crisis, the food and beverage industry continued to operate at full-scale production.
Food & Beverage Industry: Will It Lift?
In the food industry, understanding the subtleties between food processing and food manufacturing requires a certain level of expertise. However, it’s universally recognised that both sectors require strict hygiene and cleanliness standards.
Is vacuum lifting even right for my food & beverage business?
“As an industry, companies are in deep need of modernising, but they tend to be woefully underinvested in technology [...] unlike B2C, these B2B organisations are battling legacy architecture, a mishmash of processes that hamper attempts to drive profitable growth” - Howard Doberman, Global Operations Transformation Leader, Deloitte.
The biggest logistical issues in 2025
The logistics sector is becoming increasingly intertwined with the economics, politics and environmental state of the world. These challenges faced by this industry are not merely logistical but are reflective of broader societal trends and shifts.
Pick and move reels from pallets with smart reel lifting equipment
Depending on how reels need to be picked up from pallets and then placed for further use, a various amount of lifting solutions can be used. Investing in reel lifting equipment optimised for your workflow significantly reduces work-related injuries and boosts efficiency and workforce flexibility.
Is warehouse safety at odds with productivity & efficiency?
Contrary to popular belief, safety, productivity, and efficiency are not mutually exclusive in warehouse operations. In fact, they can coexist and mutually enhance each other. But how is this achieved?
Trends in packaging materials - Will it lift?
Packaging materials are a vital component of modern logistics, not only protecting products during transportation and storage but also reflecting the brand image of businesses. This has led to a significant evolution in packaging materials, driven by technological advancements, changing consumer preferences and sustainability concerns.
Are lumper services still cost-effective for the logistics industry?
If you’re involved in the supply chain sector, you’re likely familiar with the term ‘lumper’. For those who aren’t, ‘lumping’ is a term used in the trucking industry to describe the process of loading and unloading freight by anyone other than the shipper, receiver or truck driver.
The 3 most common types of manual handling injuries
Warehouses are bustling environments, teeming with a complex array of equipment, towering stacks of products and a workforce labouring around the clock. This dynamic setting significantly heightens the risk of workplace harms and manual handling injuries.
Container Unloading Equipment in 2024: A Comparative Analysis of The Best Technical Solutions
In 2022, global parcel shipping volume amounted to over 161 billion parcels. This volume is expected to skyrocket to 256 billion parcels by 2027, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 59%. Whilst the prospect of industry growth may be appealing, the reality for individual companies is often quite different.
Comparing the best order picker & LLOP products on the market
In the logistics sector, selecting the correct order picker and LLOP is essential to achieve maximum efficiency and productivity. The global market offers a range of order pickers to suit different operational needs.
Your Guide to Efficient Order Picking
Is inefficient warehouse order picking slowing down order fulfilment? While many operations in your warehouse can be automated, order picking remains largely manual. Human logic is required in most settings.
Enhance pick and pack operations with semi-automated solutions
Enhancing pick and pack operations in warehouses is essential for meeting the demands of the modern e-commerce landscape.
Warehouse sorting and palletising for efficient operations
In the era of post-Covid, the significance of warehouse sorting and palletising has grown exponentially due to the surge in online shopping and subsequent increase in demand for goods transportation. However, the fast-paced nature of this work can pose risks to the health and safety of employees, leading to burnout and high turnover rates.
Create a flexible workforce with TAWI
Warehouses and distribution centres face significant challenges with labour shortages and high employee turnover rates, leading to increased overtime and staffing issues. A flexible workforce, enhanced with vacuum lifting technology, can be a game-changer in addressing these challenges.
What is material handling: The ultimate guide
As you explore ways to streamline and optimise operations in your warehouse or production plant — it’s time to consider lifting equipment. There are a variety of lifters and accessories to choose from beyond traditional forklifts.
TAWI - Swedish Innovation since 1923
2023 marks TAWI’s 100th anniversary. One of the ways we will be celebrating this milestone is by taking a deeper look at the key brand values that have helped us on our journey and will guide us in the future. Innovation, together with transformation and partnership, are the cornerstones that form our core values and the basis of how we act as a company. They embody everything that is TAWI.
What to consider when choosing lifting tools for your vacuum lifter
The vacuum lifter is an excellent lifting aid that makes material handling safe, efficient and easy. But to get maximum functionality out of your vacuum lifter, it must be equipped with the right lifting tool.
Manual handling tasks: the 5 most common tasks
Manual handling is a common and necessary task in warehouses and distribution centres. It involves the physical movement of materials, including lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, and moving objects without the aid of machinery. While manual handling is a necessary part of the job, it can also be a source of injury and discomfort.
Pharma manufacturing: main challenges and potential solutions
Pharma manufacturing is complex and sometimes hazardous industry. The manufacturing process demands precise, safe and hygienic lifting at the weighing, processing and packaging stages.
How to get more from your operations with a warehouse trolley
Warehouse management involves many diverse physical activities – from moving and handling raw materials and products to ensuring a continuous and timely flow of parts and components.
Four common challenges in warehouse order picking (and how to address them)
Within logistics, order picking often accounts for more than half of warehouse operating costs. The continued reliance on manual labour contributes significantly to the relatively high costs.
Piab Group acquires Manut-LM to become the leader in lifting automation in France
Täby, Sweden Piab Lifting Automation Division has entered into an agreement to acquire Manut-LM, the French leading tube lifting company. Piab Lifting Automation will through the acquisition take the leading position in France.
Flexibility and efficiency in the beverage industry
Never before has there been such a range of different types of beverages. While this evolution is great news for the beverage industry at large, it does pose certain efficiency challenges, particularly for production facilities, warehouses, and distribution centers.
Unloading Loose-Loaded Containers: The Efficiency Challenge
The problem of unloading containers piled high with consumer goods is so enormous, urgent, and central to post-Covid global trade that companies are forced to seek unusual solutions.
Automate your inbound logistics material handling – AND get ahead of the competition
As the growth in e-comerce continues globally, the efficiency of inbound logistics could make or break your business.
Facing manual handling challenges in the automotive industry
Automobile manufacture involves many diverse types of work across a wide range of sectors and industries. One challenge all sectors face, is that of manual handling.
Increase workplace productivity with (smart) lifting equipment
If it’s one word that describes today’s work situation, it’s BUSY. Manufacturing and logistics companies are constantly looking for ways to be more productive and get more work done in a shorter time period. Using smart material handling equipment will help you boost workplace productivity in more ways than one.
Managing risks when unpacking shipping containers
An estimated 21 million shipping containers are currently moving goods from one point to another, with over 500 million loose loaded container shipments every year. This poses challenges to container unpacking health & safety as the large majority of loose loaded containers are loaded and unloaded manually.
Lifting Trolley: 7 advantages of using trolleys for material handling
A lifting trolley come in many shapes and sizes and can be adapted to transport just about anything. In industrial and manufacturing facilities, a mobile electric lifting trolley is particularly useful. With a compact and lightweight design, they are easy to move around and use when space is limited.
How to work smarter (and more efficiently) with vacuum lift systems
Effectively implementing vacuum lifters in your operations can save both time and money. This article explores the advantages of lifting aids in general, with a particular focus on the benefits of vacuum lift systems.
Better workforce flexibility AND profits with (smart) lifting solutions
Workforce flexibility is a key enabler for modern businesses in order to be responsive and agile. Creating workforce flexibility brings many additional benefits including increased productivity, minimised downtime and improved worker health & safety. All of which will contribute to your bottom line.
The challenge of (safe) airport baggage handling
Manual handling of baggage and cargo in airports present a great risk of injury to ground handlers. The back and shoulders are the areas of the body most exposed to injury in airport baggage handling.
Cleanroom Lifting Equipment: How to pick the right solutions for a clean room
Finding efficient and reliable cleanroom lifting equipment can be a challenge. Clean room lifting solutions include devices such as vacuum lifters, cranes, hoists and trolleys. Clean room equipment must not only meet strict requirements. Additionally, they should meet your specific business requirements in terms of lifting capacity, ergonomics, and usability.
Hazardous manual handling: Risk assessment and preventions
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) resulting from manual handling are a leading cause of lost work time and work restrictions. By conducting a risk assessment in your workplace, you can proactively implement preventive measures to mitigate MSDs.
How to prevent work-related injuries when manually handling goods
Logistics, warehousing, manufacturing – and other industries where material handling plays an important part – unfortunately rank among the most dangerous in terms of non-fatal injuries and ill health.
How you can improve occupational health & safety through smart lifting
Set long-term objectives for improving occupational health and safety. By striving to minimise the causes of hazards in the work environment, you can contribute to reduce the costs of work-related injuries and illness, improve working conditions, and increase productivity.
How to Measure Vacuum: Methods, Units and Scales
Measuring a vacuum essentially means putting a number on the absence of something. More precisely, what is measured is the amount of negative pressure in a volume of space caused by an absence of air relative to the atmosphere. Unfortunately, there is no universal vacuum unit of measurement. Depending on the level of vacuum needed in a specific application, it is often necessary to use different scales, units and gauges.
Lifting Safety | Safe Lifting Using Vacuum Technology
Compared to manual handling, vacuum lifting is not only much more efficient – it also reduces or even eliminates many of the short-term and long-term health risks. Using vacuum powered lifting aids, anyone can handle heavy loads without effort and in ergonomically correct positions.
An Introduction to Vacuum Technology
Vacuum technology is an irreplaceable part of a wide range of scientific and industrial applications. You will find vacuum systems in areas as diverse as packaging, freeze-drying, numerous forms of manufacturing, and even particle accelerators. This article is a brief overview of vacuum technology in general and, more specifically, how it is applied in vacuum lifting.
Two forefront global vacuum lifting manufacturers, Piab’s Vaculex and TAWI, proves the benefit of three
Piab’s two leading vacuum lifting brands, Vaculex and TAWI, have joined forces under the TAWI name to create a single global supplier of ergonomic lifting solutions.
Work more efficiently with vacuum lift systems
Did you know that the implementation of vacuum lifting equipment in your operations can save you both time and money? This article explores the benefits of assisted lifting in general and vacuum lifters in particular.
Piab Group acquires TAWI becoming a global leader in ergonomic solutions
Piab Group has entered into an agreement to acquire TAWI Group, a leading manufacturer of smart lifting solutions with global reach. Total sales for TAWI is expected to reach 340 MSEK in 2019. With more than 30 years of history, TAWI adds a solid complementary portfolio of products, very experienced and skilled employees, a strong network of distributors as well as many new customers to Piab.