With the advancement of industrialization and urbanization, as well as the rapid development of new energy, aerospace, rail transit and other fields, the aluminum profile market demand is strong and shows continuous growth. A large number of orders into the warehouse to the aluminum profile enterprise warehousing planning, long material loading and unloading, handling, plant safety has brought challenges,the enterprises began to seek a safer and more efficient long material warehousing and logistics solutions.

Recently, two multi-directional forklifts/reach trucks of Zowell Intelligent Forklifts were successfully delivered to customers in the aluminum profile industry, and once tried, they were highly recognized by the customer side.

Program Background

The customer is an enterprise engaged in manufacturing, processing and sales of aluminum profiles. The company is strong and has aluminum alloy profile production lines with a scale of thousands of tons, and the products are widely used in real estate development, construction, electric power, rail transportation and other fields.

The client hopes that the upgrading of internal logistics will enable the company to better meet market opportunities and expand its brand influence.

◼ Low utilization of warehousing

The warehouse originally used ground stacked storage, chaotic placement, excessive occupation of the warehouse floor, and due to the special shape of the aluminum profile, stacking height is limited, a large number of vertical storage space is wasted, the efficiency of enterprise warehousing needs to be improved.

◼ Logistics efficiency needs to be optimized

Lack of professional equipment to cope with aluminum profile loading and unloading, indoor and outdoor transfer, complicated handling process, limited load capacity, need to be divided into several times for repetitive transfer, stacking action, logistics inefficiency;

◼ There are major safety hazards

Aluminum profiles with large specifications and large individual weights are difficult to achieve smooth transportation, and are more prone to tipping over when encountering sloping road sections, resulting in personal injury and property damage.

Zowell Solution Advantages

In order to improve the efficiency of internal logistics, it is necessary to optimize the warehouse layout and logistics equipment at the same time, Zowell team investigated the actual working conditions on the spot, and then recommended two customized multi-directional forklifts equipped with four forks, which helped the customer to cope with the diversified order requirements.

Aiming at the customer's storage chaos, the problem of insufficient storage capacity, our team for the customer re-planning warehousing program, recommended the introduction of long material storage of special cantilever beam racking, racking height of 7m, according to the Zowell narrow aisle program to carry out the layout of the racking, effectively reducing the waste of space on the ground and vertically, doubling the number of storage spaces in the warehouse!

Zowell multi-directional forklift trucks are specially designed for long material transportation. With the support of all-wheel steering technology, they can move in all directions at any fixed position, and switch between six driving modes such as straight, sideways, diagonal, and in-situ slewing at the touch of a button, which makes it easy to handle the originally complicated loading and unloading, handling, and stacking, and improves the operational efficiency!

The delivered multi-directional reach trucks have a maximum load of 3T, and the gantry is made of imported channel steel with “H” section, which has stronger torsion and bending resistance, and can easily cope with large tonnage and high lifting conditions, and it can transport and stack many pieces of aluminum profiles in a single operation. The two multi-directional reach trucks are working at the same time, and they will add more help for the efficient delivery of orders for the enterprise!

The tailor-made four forks can adapt to different specifications of long materials, coupled with the three-pivot stable body structure, stronger and more stable bearing, greatly reducing the possibility of tilting and falling of aluminum profiles in the transfer process, which will effectively enhance the safety of the plant.